NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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

2944

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 2080

N/A Sep 2018 View Details

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

8GB GDDR5X 180W N/A May 2016

GeForce GTX 1080

$599 • May 2016

GeForce RTX 2080

$699 • Sep 2018

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

8GB GDDR6 215W N/A Sep 2018

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Memory Size	8 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5X	GDDR6
TDP	180 W	215 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1733 MHz	1710 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	320.3 GB/s	448 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	12nm
Architecture	Pascal	Turing
Shading Units	2560	2944
RT Cores	N/A	46
TMUs	160	184
ROPs	64	64
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1251 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	110.9 GPixel/s	109.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	320.3 GTexel/s	448 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	8.873 GFLOPS	10.07 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	4.00 MB
Die Size	314 mm²	545 mm²
Transistors	7200 Million	13600 Million
Required PSU	450 W	550 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	12.2
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

10843 (+49%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

63994

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

118637 (+85%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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

128.3 FPS (+44%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

15572

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

18747 (+20%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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 2080 (+36%)

AVG 38 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

1440p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2080 (+41%)

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 15 FPS

2160p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2080 (+54%)

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 13 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 2080 (+43%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

1440p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2080 (+45%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 24 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 2080 (+44%)

AVG 118 FPS

MIN 107 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+47%)

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+46%)

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 35 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 2080 (+44%)

AVG 168 FPS

MIN 152 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 117 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 2080 (+42%)

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 96 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 2080 (+46%)

AVG 57 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sifu

8.7 2022 • Action, Indie • Sloclap

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+31%)

AVG 277 FPS

MIN 198 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 212 FPS

MIN 140 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+34%)

AVG 203 FPS

MIN 135 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 151 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+35%)

AVG 105 FPS

MIN 71 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 2080 (+36%)

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+49%)

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+63%)

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 16 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Wins!

Based on 344 benchmarks across 108 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

+38.3%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 2080