GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (32/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GeForce

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

32/100
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GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 20.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 31.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 29329 87569
Night Raid 95847 206648
Port Royal 2266 38202
Solar Bay 26263 236689
Time Spy 9981 46873
Wild Life Extreme 20170 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 6.1 12.0
DLSS No DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 109 299
1080p Ultra 88 254
1440p Ultra 65 207
4K Ultra 35 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 91795639 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 19914610651 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 77704218 26123316077
Far Cry 6 102907238 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 119766542 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 69544225 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 75594623 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1181097840 329302238128
The Witcher 3 1341108142 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 20303 85572
Face Detection (HP) 13001 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 3882 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 7960 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 14401 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 3577 8184
Object Detection (SP) 4757 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 72329 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 164740 687080
Text Classification (SP) 1910 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 200.9 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 5.57 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 88.6 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.33 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.79 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 3.55 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6315.6 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 265.6 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5700 XT —
Architecture Pascal Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GP102 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $699 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 7700Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released March 10, 2017 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 3080 Ti —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1481 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1582 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 28 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2816KB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 88 176
Shading Units 3584 21760
Tensor Cores No 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 224 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 352-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 11000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1376 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 11 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR5X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 151 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 66 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 941 1410
GPU Compute 9585 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 471 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 16 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 250 W 575 W
Transistor Count 11 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 23.35 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 139 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 354 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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