NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 336.70

$ 28.30 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

4988 points

1% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

115 FPS

22 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

63 FPS

78 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

50 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

7843 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

2173.35 points

258% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

94250 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

85184 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

66795 points

0.37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

84977 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

79052 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

59% significantly higher core clock speed

1005 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

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

416 GB/s

29% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

160 W

12% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

98.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

24% slightly higher texture rate

222.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

24% slightly better floating point performance

7.12 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 597

102nd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2018 November

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 Quadro RTX 4000 benchmarks

For gaming, the Quadro RTX 4000 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly 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 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 Quadro RTX 4000 has a slightly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro RTX 4000 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080.