NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (2610MHz vs 1733MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +351%

40.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

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GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

60

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

7680

160

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

60

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

AD104

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

4 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

285W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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