GeForce GTX 1080 vs Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (98/100)

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell leads overall with a score of 98/100 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 ]
Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
NVIDIA

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

98/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Efficiency 20.0 Poor 49.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 24.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Fire Strike 22750 75325
Night Raid 82345 214655
Port Royal 1676 39888
Solar Bay 19994 255911
Time Spy 7592 42614
Wild Life Extreme 15147 110070

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
CUDA 6.1 12
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 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
1080p High 88 284
1080p Ultra 69 242
1440p Ultra 49 196
4K Ultra 26 118
CoD: Modern Warfare III 71624327 305296252176
Counter-Strike 2 1601148538 36226320393
Cyberpunk 2077 56533114 25322116071
Far Cry 6 85755629 221198185112
Forza Horizon 5 103605033 309235215175
Ghost of Tsushima 55423118 206170158107
Hogwarts Legacy 58483218 23518915089
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 95835730 319298224121
The Witcher 3 106846031 343311216116

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 16431 90853
Face Detection (HP) 9841 103224
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 2591 16903
Image Segmentation (HP) 5497 48518
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11914 54618
Machine Translation (HP) 2662 7291
Object Detection (SP) 3255 26498
Pose Estimation (Q) 53922 338587
Style Transfer (SP) 112226 635289
Text Classification (SP) 1732 3894

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 152.4 img/sec 366.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 4.15 Gpixels/sec 35.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 71.6 img/sec 248 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.32 Gpixels/sec 2.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.03 Gpixels/sec 45 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.73 Gpixels/sec 23.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6716.4 FPS 42574.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 238.9 Gpixels/sec 3040 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5600 XT —
Architecture Pascal Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GP104 GB202-300-A1
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $8559
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 7700Kor above -AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3Dor above
Released May 27, 2016 March 18, 2026
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5080 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Base Clock 1607 MHz 1590 MHz
Boost Clock 1733 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 188
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 128MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 188
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 190
Shading Units 2560 24064
Tensor Cores No 752
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 752

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Bus 256-bit 512-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 10000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1251 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 96 GB
Memory Type GDDR5X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
DirectX 11 125 FPS 339 FPS
DirectX 12 55 FPS 154 FPS
G2D Mark 889 1391
GPU Compute 7627 Ops/s 26607 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Die Size 314 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 16 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 180 W 600 W
Transistor Count 7 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 22.29 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Pixel Fill Rate 111 GPixel/s 497 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 277 GTexel/s 1968 GTexel/s

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