NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR5X

Memory

2560

Cores

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1080

N/A May 2016 View Details

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nvidia

Brand

6GB GDDR5

Memory

2816

Cores

336.6 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

N/A Jun 2015 View Details

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

8GB GDDR5X 180W N/A May 2016

GeForce GTX 1080

$599 • May 2016

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

$649 • Jun 2015

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6GB GDDR5 250W N/A Jun 2015

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory Size	8 GB	6 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5X	GDDR5
TDP	180 W	250 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1733 MHz	1076 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	320.3 GB/s	336.6 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	28nm
Architecture	Pascal	Maxwell 2.0
Shading Units	2560	2816
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	160	176
ROPs	64	96
Memory Bus	256-bit	384-bit
Memory Clock	1251 MHz	1753 MHz
Pixel Rate	110.9 GPixel/s	103.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	320.3 GTexel/s	336.6 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	8.873 GFLOPS	6.06 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	3.00 MB
Die Size	314 mm²	601 mm²
Transistors	7200 Million	8000 Million
Required PSU	450 W	600 W
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.1
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

7282 (+21%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

6010

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

63994 (+28%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

49950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

89.1 FPS (+21%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

73.4 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

15572 (+13%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

13771

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Game Benchmarks Comparison (252 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+4%)

AVG 193 FPS

MIN 175 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 186 FPS

MIN 169 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+4%)

AVG 156 FPS

MIN 142 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 150 FPS

MIN 137 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+39%)

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 99 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+0%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+0%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+26%)

AVG 118 FPS

MIN 113 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+25%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+39%)

AVG 129 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+41%)

AVG 83 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+26%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+31%)

AVG 147 FPS

MIN 132 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 101 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 (+32%)

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 82 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+38%)

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+22%)

AVG 148 FPS

MIN 136 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 114 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+21%)

AVG 85 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+9%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+36%)

AVG 129 FPS

MIN 102 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+35%)

AVG 92 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 (+30%)

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 40 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Wins!

Based on 249 benchmarks across 84 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

+24.1%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti