GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 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 Ti (32/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 20)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 31)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 20.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 31.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 29329 75605
Night Raid 95847 199650
Port Royal 2266 23275
Solar Bay 26263 161489
Time Spy 9981 33000
Wild Life Extreme 20170 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 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 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 109 239
1080p Ultra 88 205
1440p Ultra 65 165
4K Ultra 35 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 91795639 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 19914610651 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 77704218 21319213861
Far Cry 6 102907238 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 119766542 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 69544225 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 75594623 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1181097840 306276214111
The Witcher 3 1341108142 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 20303 69068
Face Detection (HP) 13001 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 3882 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 7960 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 14401 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 3577 7905
Object Detection (SP) 4757 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 72329 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 164740 349205
Text Classification (SP) 1910 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 200.9 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 5.57 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 88.6 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.33 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.79 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 3.55 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6315.6 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 265.6 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5700 XT —
Architecture Pascal Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GP102 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $699 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 7700Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released March 10, 2017 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 3080 Ti —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1481 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1582 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 28 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2816KB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 88 112
Shading Units 3584 10752
Tensor Cores No 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 224 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 352-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 11000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1376 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 11 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR5X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 151 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 66 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 941 1397
GPU Compute 9585 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 471 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 16 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 250 W 360 W
Transistor Count 11 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 23.35 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 139 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 354 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

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

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