GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 4090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1080 (25/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce

GeForce GTX 1080

25/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 20.0 Poor 43.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 24.0 Poor 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
Fire Strike 22750 72432
Night Raid 82345 195813
Port Royal 1676 26127
Solar Bay 19994 187525
Time Spy 7592 36299
Wild Life Extreme 15147 85218

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
CUDA 6.1 8.9
DLSS No DLSS 3
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 88 255
1080p Ultra 69 217
1440p Ultra 49 177
4K Ultra 26 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 71624327 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 1601148538 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 56533114 22620814366
Far Cry 6 85755629 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 103605033 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 55423118 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 58483218 20016313274
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 95835730 302284222118
The Witcher 3 106846031 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 16431 75599
Face Detection (HP) 9841 78111
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 2591 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 5497 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11914 48114
Machine Translation (HP) 2662 6349
Object Detection (SP) 3255 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) 53922 289639
Style Transfer (SP) 112226 601428
Text Classification (SP) 1732 4074

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 152.4 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 4.15 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 71.6 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.32 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.03 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.73 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6716.4 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 238.9 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5600 XT —
Architecture Pascal Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GP104 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 7700Kor above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released May 27, 2016 September 20, 2022
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5080 -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 1607 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 1733 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 176
Shading Units 2560 16384
Tensor Cores No 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 256-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 10000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1251 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR5X GDDR6X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 125 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 55 FPS 151 FPS
G2D Mark 889 1303
GPU Compute 7627 Ops/s 26022 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
Die Size 314 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 16 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 180 W 450 W
Transistor Count 7 billion 76.3 billion
Transistor Density 22.29 MTr/mm² 125.29 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 111 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 277 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 4090
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) — Cinebench 2024

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