NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 294.49

$ 70.51 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

8233 points

67% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

191 FPS

98 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

95 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

63 FPS

139 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

75 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

139% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3149 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

3690.41 points

507% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

126840 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

120026 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

2280 MHz

41% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

2497 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 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

145 W

24% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

119.9 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

299.6 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3840

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

33% slightly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 597

51st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR7

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 5060 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 5060 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 RTX 5060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5060 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080.

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