GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

CORE STATE GP104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1733 MHz

TDP 180 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 16 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 480

CORE STATE GF100

VRAM 1536 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,560

N/A

geekbench_metal

23,824

N/A

geekbench_opencl

55,724

13,300

geekbench_vulkan

65,164

N/A

passmark_directx_10

93

N/A

passmark_directx_11

124

N/A

passmark_directx_12

55

N/A

passmark_directx_9

211

N/A

passmark_g2d

888

N/A

passmark_g3d

15,586

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

7,614

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 1080

GTX 480

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,560

480 -81.3%

Shaders

2,560

480 -81.3%

TMUs

160

60 -62.5%

ROPs

64

48 -25.0%

SM Count

20

15 -25.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

1607 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

701 MHz

Shader Clock

—

1401 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz 10 Gbps effective

924 MHz 3.7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

1536 MB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

1,536 -81.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5X

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

320.3 GB/s

177.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

768 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

21.03 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

8.873 TFLOPS

1,345.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

277.3 GFLOPS (1:32)

168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

138.6 GFLOPS (1:64)

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Power

TDP

180 W

250 W

TDP (W)

180

250 +38.9%

Suggested PSU

450 W

600 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Pascal

Fermi

GPU Name

GP104

GF100

Generation

GeForce 10

GeForce 400

Process Size

16 nm

40 nm

Transistors

7,200 million

3,100 million

Die Size

314 mm²

529 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

22.9M / mm²

5.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

—

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

CUDA

6.1

2.0

Shader Model

6.8

5.1

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

112 mm 4.4 inches

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Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

599 USD

499 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 900

GeForce 200

Successor

GeForce 20

GeForce 500

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