NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1733MHz vs 1620MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

Lower TDP (175W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +18%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080

7533

GeForce RTX 2070 +17%

8869

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

32

GeForce RTX 2070 +15%

37

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

62

GeForce RTX 2070 +9%

68

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +1%

99

GeForce RTX 2070

98

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

52

GeForce RTX 2070 +3%

54

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +1%

97

GeForce RTX 2070

96

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

128

GeForce RTX 2070

128

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GeForce RTX 2070 +53%

86

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GeForce RTX 2070 +21%

90

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

154

GeForce RTX 2070 +15%

178

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

36

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2304

160

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

TU106

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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