NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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

11GB GDDR6

Memory

4352

Cores

616 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

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 Ti

$999 • Sep 2018

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

11GB GDDR6 250W N/A Sep 2018

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Memory Size	8 GB	11 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5X	GDDR6
TDP	180 W	250 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1733 MHz	1545 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	320.3 GB/s	616 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	12nm
Architecture	Pascal	Turing
Shading Units	2560	4352
RT Cores	N/A	68
TMUs	160	272
ROPs	64	88
Memory Bus	256-bit	352-bit
Memory Clock	1251 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	110.9 GPixel/s	136 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	320.3 GTexel/s	616 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	8.873 GFLOPS	13.45 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	5.50 MB
Die Size	314 mm²	754 mm²
Transistors	7200 Million	18600 Million
Required PSU	450 W	600 W
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	2x 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

14203 (+95%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

63994

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

144745 (+126%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

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

165.2 FPS (+85%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

15572

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

21619 (+39%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

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 Ti (+82%)

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

1440p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (+86%)

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 15 FPS

2160p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (+108%)

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 17 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 Ti (+90%)

AVG 57 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

1440p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (+95%)

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 32 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 Ti (+71%)

AVG 140 FPS

MIN 123 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (+80%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 96 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (+132%)

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 61 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 Ti (+82%)

AVG 213 FPS

MIN 188 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 117 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (+85%)

AVG 146 FPS

MIN 131 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (+64%)

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sifu

8.7 2022 • Action, Indie • Sloclap

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (+66%)

AVG 351 FPS

MIN 227 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 212 FPS

MIN 140 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (+66%)

AVG 251 FPS

MIN 170 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 151 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (+74%)

AVG 136 FPS

MIN 91 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 Ti (+79%)

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 86 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (+94%)

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (+131%)

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 16 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Wins!

Based on 344 benchmarks across 108 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

+70.1%

103

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti