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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 1080 vs 1060 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 8.5 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly better PassMark score | 11,994 | vs | 8,686 | Around 40% better PassMark score | |||
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| Much better floating-point performance | 8,228 GFLOPS | vs | 3,953 GFLOPS | More than 2x better floating-point performance | |||
| Significantly higher effective memory clock speed | 10,008 MHz | vs | 8,008 MHz | Around 25% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Much higher texture rate | 257.1 GTexel/s | vs | 123.5 GTexel/s | More than 2x higher texture rate | |||
| More memory | 8,192 MB | vs | 6,144 MB | Around 35% more memory | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 102.8 GPixel/s | vs | 74.1 GPixel/s | Around 40% higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 224.4 GB/s | vs | 192.2 GB/s | More than 15% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Significantly more shading units | 2,560 | vs | 1,280 | Twice as many shading units | |||
| Significantly more texture mapping units | 160 | vs | 80 | Twice as many texture mapping units | |||
| Much better PassMark direct compute score | 8,106 | vs | 5,049 | More than 60% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| More render output processors | 64 | vs | 48 | 16 more render output processors | |||
| Better face detection score | 143.9 mPixels/s | vs | 119.24 mPixels/s | More than 20% better face detection score | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
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| Much higher memory clock speed | 2,002 MHz | vs | 1,251 MHz | More than 60% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Lower TDP | 120W | vs | 180W | Around 35% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 1080 vs 1060
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) Data courtesy CompuBench
Video composition Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
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