NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 365.00
$ 754.20 significantly less expensive
$ 1119.20

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points
24070 points
390% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS
559 FPS
465 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS
276 FPS
198 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS
406 FPS
343 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS
225 FPS
161 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points
8762 points
16% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points
9133.30 points
1404% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points
267906 points
345% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points
257198 points
294% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
2295 MHz
42% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz
2617 MHz
51% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
16 GiB
100% significantly more memory

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
960 GB/s
199% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W
100% significantly lower TDP
360 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s
293.1 Gigapixels/s
164% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s
879.3 Gigatexels/s
217% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS
56.28 TFLOPS
534% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
10752
319% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
336
110% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
112
75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586
4th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 5080 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 over the GeForce GTX 1080.

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