NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
nvidia
Brand8GB GDDR5X
Memory2560
Cores320.3 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 1080
nvidia
Brand24GB GDDR6X
Memory16384
Cores1010 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce GTX 1080
$599 • May 2016
GeForce RTX 4090
$1599 • Sep 2022
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Specs Comparison
| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5X | GDDR6X |
| TDP | 180 W | 450 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1733 MHz | 2520 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 320.3 GB/s | 1010 GB/s |
| Process Size | 16nm | 5nm |
| Architecture | Pascal | Ada Lovelace |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 16384 |
| RT Cores | N/A | 128 |
| TMUs | 160 | 512 |
| ROPs | 64 | 176 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1251 MHz | 1313 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 110.9 GPixel/s | 443.5 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 320.3 GTexel/s | 1.01 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 8.873 GFLOPS | 82.58 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 2.00 MB | 72.00 MB |
| Die Size | 314 mm² | 609 mm² |
| Transistors | 7200 Million | 76300 Million |
| Required PSU | 450 W | 850 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin | 1x 16-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 | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Game Benchmarks Comparison (3 benchmarks)
Scars Above
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Wins!
Based on 3 benchmarks across 1 games
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
NVIDIA • 8GB GDDR5X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA • 24GB GDDR6X
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