NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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

8GB GDDR6

Memory

2304

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 2070

$261.99 Oct 2018 View Details

$261.99

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

8GB GDDR5X 180W N/A May 2016

GeForce GTX 1080

$599 • May 2016

GeForce RTX 2070

$499 • Oct 2018

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

8GB GDDR6 175W $261.99 Oct 2018

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
Memory Size	8 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5X	GDDR6
TDP	180 W	175 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1733 MHz	1620 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	320.3 GB/s	448 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	12nm
Architecture	Pascal	Turing
Shading Units	2560	2304
RT Cores	N/A	36
TMUs	160	144
ROPs	64	64
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1251 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	110.9 GPixel/s	103.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	320.3 GTexel/s	448 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	8.873 GFLOPS	7.465 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	4.00 MB
Die Size	314 mm²	445 mm²
Transistors	7200 Million	10800 Million
Required PSU	450 W	450 W
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.2
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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

8494 (+17%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

63994

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

97923 (+53%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

89.1 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

100.2 FPS (+12%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

15572

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

16132 (+4%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Game Benchmarks Comparison (344 benchmarks)

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Background

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

8 2026 • Action, Adventure • Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft Barcelona, Ubisoft Bordeaux, Ubisoft Belgrade, Ubisoft Chengdu, Ubisoft India, Ubisoft Kyiv, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Philippines, Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Shanghai

1080p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2070 (+14%)

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

1440p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2070 (+14%)

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 15 FPS

2160p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2070 (+31%)

AVG 17 FPS

MIN 11 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 13 FPS

MIN 8 FPS

Winner

Loser

007 First Light

8 2026 • Action, Adventure • IO Interactive A/S

1080p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2070 (+17%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

1440p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2070 (+20%)

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

Winner

Loser

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Background

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

8.7 2022 • Action, Adventure, Casual • Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2070 (+20%)

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2070 (+20%)

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2070 (+18%)

AVG 33 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

Winner

Loser

Scars Above

7.9 2023 • Action, Adventure • Mad Head Games

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 2070 (+20%)

AVG 140 FPS

MIN 127 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 117 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 2070 (+15%)

AVG 91 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 2070 (+18%)

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sifu

8.7 2022 • Action, Indie • Sloclap

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2070 (+9%)

AVG 231 FPS

MIN 165 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 212 FPS

MIN 140 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2070 (+9%)

AVG 165 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 151 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2070 (+9%)

AVG 85 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light 2 Stay Human

8 2022 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2070 (+13%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2070 (+20%)

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2070 (+31%)

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 16 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Wins!

Based on 344 benchmarks across 108 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

+12.3%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 2070