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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
NVIDIA's first Pascal flagship, launched at $599 with 2,560 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR5X across a 256-bit bus for 320GB/s of bandwidth. Boosting to 1,733MHz at 180W, it roughly doubled GTX 970-class performance in review testing and stayed NVIDIA's fastest single-GPU card until the GTX 1080 Ti arrived in 2017.
Pros
- 2,560 CUDA cores boosting to 1,733MHz, roughly doubling GTX 970-class performance in review testing
- First consumer GPU with GDDR5X memory, delivering 320GB/s across a 256-bit bus
- 180W TDP from a single 8-pin connector, efficient for its performance class
- 8GB of VRAM was generous for 2016-era games
Cons
- No hardware ray tracing or Tensor cores; both arrived only with the RTX 20 series
- Founders Edition reference card launched at $699, $100 above the $599 partner-card MSRP
- Superseded within a year by the GTX 1080 Ti
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
General
- Announced
- 2016
- Architecture
- Pascal
- Process
- 16 nm
- TDP
- 180 W
- Power connector
- 1x 8-pin
Cores & Clocks
- Shading units
- 2,560
- Base clock
- 1,607 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1,733 MHz
Memory
- VRAM
- 8 GB
- VRAM type
- GDDR5X
- Bus width
- 256 bit
- Bandwidth
- 320 GB/s
Benchmarks
- 3DMark Time Spy
- 7,536Bottom 27%
- PassMark G3D
- 15,607Bottom 41%
Quick answers
Is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 good in 2026?
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 earns an Inno Score of 37.8/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. NVIDIA's first Pascal flagship, launched at $599 with 2,560 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR5X across a 256-bit bus for 320GB/s of bandwidth. Boosting to 1,733MHz at 180W, it roughly doubled GTX 970-class performance in review testing and stayed NVIDIA's fastest single-GPU card until the GTX 1080 Ti arrived in 2017.
What are the key specs of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080?
VRAM: 8 GB · Boost clock: 1,733 MHz · TDP: 180 W · 3DMark Time Spy: 7,536
What are the closest alternatives to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, Intel Arc A380 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
