NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 294.00 significantly less expensive

$ 659.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

1% slightly better overall score

4821 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

94 FPS

104 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

70 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

71 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

53 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

9001 points

19% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

2206.17 points

263% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

96024 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

85818 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

73515 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

90905 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

84097 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

1410 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

1620 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

448 GB/s

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

175 W

2% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

103.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

233.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

7.46 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

11% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

11% slightly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

106th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 2070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 has a slightly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2070 over the GeForce GTX 1080.