GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1080 (25/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 20)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 24)
GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce

GeForce GTX 1080

25/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5080
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5080

84/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 20.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 24.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 22750 75605
Night Raid 82345 199650
Port Royal 1676 23275
Solar Bay 19994 161489
Time Spy 7592 33000
Wild Life Extreme 15147 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 5080
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 GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 88 239
1080p Ultra 69 205
1440p Ultra 49 165
4K Ultra 26 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 71624327 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 1601148538 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 56533114 21319213861
Far Cry 6 85755629 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 103605033 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 55423118 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 58483218 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 95835730 306276214111
The Witcher 3 106846031 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 16431 69068
Face Detection (HP) 9841 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 2591 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 5497 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11914 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 2662 7905
Object Detection (SP) 3255 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 53922 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 112226 349205
Text Classification (SP) 1732 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 152.4 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 4.15 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 71.6 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.32 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.03 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.73 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6716.4 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 238.9 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 5080
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5600 XT —
Architecture Pascal Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GP104 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 7700Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released May 27, 2016 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5080 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1607 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1733 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 112
Shading Units 2560 10752
Tensor Cores No 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 10000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1251 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR5X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 125 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 55 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 889 1397
GPU Compute 7627 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 314 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 16 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 180 W 360 W
Transistor Count 7 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 22.29 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 111 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 277 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce RTX 5080
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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