NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR5X

Memory

2560

Cores

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1080

N/A May 2016 View Details

nvidia

Brand

10GB GDDR6X

Memory

8704

Cores

760.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 3080

N/A Aug 2020 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

8GB GDDR5X 180W N/A May 2016

GeForce GTX 1080

$599 • May 2016

GeForce RTX 3080

$699 • Aug 2020

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

10GB GDDR6X 320W N/A Aug 2020

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Memory Size	8 GB	10 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5X	GDDR6X
TDP	180 W	320 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1733 MHz	1710 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	320.3 GB/s	760.3 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	8nm
Architecture	Pascal	Ampere
Shading Units	2560	8704
RT Cores	N/A	68
TMUs	160	272
ROPs	64	96
Memory Bus	256-bit	320-bit
Memory Clock	1251 MHz	1188 MHz
Pixel Rate	110.9 GPixel/s	164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	320.3 GTexel/s	760.3 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	8.873 GFLOPS	29.77 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	5.00 MB
Die Size	314 mm²	628 mm²
Transistors	7200 Million	28300 Million
Required PSU	450 W	700 W
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 12-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	Samsung

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

19022 (+161%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

63994

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

161903 (+153%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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

211.5 FPS (+137%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

15572

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

25153 (+62%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Game Benchmarks Comparison (189 benchmarks)

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 3080 (+71%)

AVG 140 FPS

MIN 123 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+137%)

AVG 140 FPS

MIN 123 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+200%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 78 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 3080 (+132%)

AVG 272 FPS

MIN 248 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 117 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 3080 (+137%)

AVG 187 FPS

MIN 169 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 3080 (+149%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sifu

8.7 2022 • Action, Indie • Sloclap

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+84%)

AVG 390 FPS

MIN 227 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 212 FPS

MIN 140 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+126%)

AVG 341 FPS

MIN 217 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 151 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+132%)

AVG 181 FPS

MIN 115 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 3080 (+170%)

AVG 143 FPS

MIN 131 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+186%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+244%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 16 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

Winner

Loser

Serious Sam Siberian Mayhem

8.6 2022 • Action, Adventure • Croteam, Timelock Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+41%)

AVG 123 FPS

MIN 109 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+84%)

AVG 123 FPS

MIN 109 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+107%)

AVG 85 FPS

MIN 75 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Winner

Loser

ICARUS

7.7 2021 • Action, Adventure, Simulation • RocketWerkz

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+164%)

AVG 119 FPS

MIN 102 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+200%)

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 71 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+233%)

AVG 40 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 12 FPS

MIN 9 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Wins!

Based on 189 benchmarks across 61 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

+123.4%

134

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 3080