GeForce GTX 1080
[ GEFORCE ] Graphics Cards

GeForce GTX 1080

Overall Score
25/100
GRADE D · Poor
Key Technical Specifications
Graphics (GPU) Pascal
[ EXPERT VERDICT · SUMMARY ]

GeForce GTX 1080 is an engineering-tested graphics cards achieving an overall rating of 25/100. It is positioned for balanced everyday compute and power efficiency.

Benchmark Performance Scores

Normalized 0–100 Scale
Efficiency
20/100
Rating: Poor
Gaming
24/100
Rating: Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications for GeForce GTX 1080
Specification Value
Fire Strike 22750
Night Raid 82345
Port Royal 1676
Solar Bay 19994
Time Spy 7592
Wild Life Extreme 15147

API

API specifications for GeForce GTX 1080
Specification Value
CUDA 6.1
DLSS No
DirectX 12
DisplayPort 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Ray Tracing No
Vulkan 1.3

Games

Games specifications for GeForce GTX 1080
Specification Value
1080p High 88
1080p Ultra 69
1440p Ultra 49
4K Ultra 26
CoD: Modern Warfare III 71624327
Counter-Strike 2 1601148538
Cyberpunk 2077 56533114
Far Cry 6 85755629
Forza Horizon 5 103605033
Ghost of Tsushima 55423118
Hogwarts Legacy 58483218
Margin of Error Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 95835730
The Witcher 3 106846031

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications for GeForce GTX 1080
Specification Value
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 16431
Face Detection (HP) 9841
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 2591
Image Segmentation (HP) 5497
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11914
Machine Translation (HP) 2662
Object Detection (SP) 3255
Pose Estimation (Q) 53922
Style Transfer (SP) 112226
Text Classification (SP) 1732

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications for GeForce GTX 1080
Specification Value
API OpenCL
Background Blur 152.4 img/sec
Edge Detection 4.15 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 71.6 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.32 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.03 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.73 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6716.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 238.9 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications for GeForce GTX 1080
Specification Value
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5600 XT
Architecture Pascal
Build Discrete
Case Desktop
GPU Codename GP104
Launch price (MSRP) $599
Purpose Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 7700Kor above
Released May 27, 2016
Segment High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5080
Vendor Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

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

Memory

Memory specifications for GeForce GTX 1080
Specification Value
Bus 256-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 10000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1251 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB
Memory Type GDDR5X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications for GeForce GTX 1080
Specification Value
DirectX 11 125 FPS
DirectX 12 55 FPS
G2D Mark 889
GPU Compute 7627 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications for GeForce GTX 1080
Specification Value
Die Size 314 mm²
Fabrication Process 16 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC
TGP 180 W
Transistor Count 7 billion
Transistor Density 22.29 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications for GeForce GTX 1080
Specification Value
Pixel Fill Rate 111 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 277 GTexel/s

Strengths & Limitations

Key Advantages

  • Comprehensive positive benchmark metrics recorded.

Key Considerations

  • No major hardware limitations flagged during benchmark run.

Direct Competitors & Alternatives

Methodology, Provenance & Verification

Score version 2026.1 · Data verified 2026-08-26 · Source: official manufacturer datasheets and standardized reproducible benchmark suites (Geekbench 6, Cinebench R24, 3DMark).

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