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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- Superseded within a year by the GTX 1080 Ti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
- 7,566Bottom 26%
- PassMark G3D
- 15,607Bottom 33%
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: 7,566
What are the closest alternatives to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
