NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 268.11 significantly less expensive

$ 633.11

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

10078 points

105% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

217 FPS

123 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

153 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

153 FPS

91 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

115 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

14639 points

93% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

3056.90 points

403% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

176681 points

242% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

145322 points

165% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

132328 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

145114 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

134471 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

1350 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

1545 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

11 GiB

37% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

352 Bit

37% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

616 GB/s

92% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

38% slightly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

136 Gigapixels/s

22% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

420.2 Gigatexels/s

51% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

13.45 TFLOPS

51% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

4352

69% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

272

69% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

37% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

37th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2018 September

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 2080 Ti specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming performance.

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: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has slightly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1080.