NVIDIA · GeForce GTX 10 Series

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is a graphics card released on August 16, 2016, built on the Pascal architecture using a 16 nm process. It has 2,560 shading units, 8 GB of GDDR5X memory on a 256-bit bus, 320.3 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 1.73 GHz and a 180 W board power rating. It scores 15,605 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 6.1.

PascalGP104-400-A116 nm

10/10 key specs recorded · 70 facts

Depth: 45 recorded fields, 10 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NanoReview (Firecrawl extract), NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 10 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark NanoReview (Firecrawl extract)PassMark Videocard Benchmark NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)

Shading units

2,560cores

20 SMs

Memory

8 GB

GDDR5X · 256-bit

Boost clock

1.73 GHz

1.61 GHz base

Board power

180 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 scores 15,605 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 94.2% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #161), measured across 42,664 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 888.

PassMark G3D Mark

15,605

Rank #161
Faster than 94.2% of 2,658 GPUs
42,664 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 211 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 92.2% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 91 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 88.6% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 125 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 87.8% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 56 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 83.1% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 7,626 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 90.8% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 averages DirectX 9 211 fps, DirectX 10 91 fps, DirectX 11 125 fps, DirectX 12 56 fps and GPU Compute 7,626 ops/s, across 42,664 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Max memory 8 GB

Core clock 1607 MHz

Memory clock 2500 MHz

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.5

Max TDP 180 W

First benchmarked 2016-05-14

Samples 42,664

PassMark listing (collected 2026-09-30)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 8 GB of memory, a core clock of 1607 MHz, DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.5, first benchmarked on 2016-05-14. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 with Max-Q Design, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

Architecture Pascal

Codename GP104-400-A1

Chip Not recorded

Process node 16 nm

Transistors 7,200 M

Die size 314 mm²

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is based on the Pascal architecture, uses the GP104-400-A1 graphics processor, is manufactured on a 16 nm process, contains 7,200 million transistors and has a die size of 314 mm².

Shader configuration

Shading units 2,560

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors 20

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 160

Render output units (ROPs) 64

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has 2,560 shading units, 20 streaming multiprocessors, 160 texture mapping units and 64 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080.

Clock speeds

Base clock 1.61 GHz

Boost clock 1.73 GHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock 1.25 GHz

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 runs at a base clock of 1.61 GHz and boosts to 1.73 GHz.

Memory

Size 8 GB

Type GDDR5X

Bus width 256-bit

Bandwidth 320.3 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with 8 GB of GDDR5X memory, uses a 256-bit memory bus and delivers 320.3 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has a board power rating of 180 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 180 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Market

Launched August 16, 2016

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce GTX 10 Series

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 was released on August 16, 2016.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 15,605

PassMark G2D 888

Rank #161

Samples 42,664

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 6.1.

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.4

CUDA compute capability 6.1

Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080.

Features

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 6.1

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.

Not listed (2)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports CUDA (Compute capability 6.1) under Compute and AI.

Media engine

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and VP9. It does not support hardware encode for AV1 and decode for AV1.

NVIDIA NVENC encoder 6th Generation Encoder engines: 2NVIDIA's dedicated video-encoding engine, used by streaming and capture software; newer generations encode more efficiently.

NVIDIA NVDEC decoder 3rd Generation Decoder engines: 1NVIDIA's dedicated video-decoding engine; newer generations support more codecs and formats.

Hardware video codec support of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Codec	Encode	Decode
H.264 (AVC)	Supported4:4:4: Yes	Supported
HEVC (H.265)	Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: No; 8K: Yes	Supported4:4:4: No
AV1	Not supported	Not supported
VP9	Not stated by the vendor	Supported

supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor

Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (6th Generation, encoder engines: 2) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (3rd Generation, decoder engines: 1).

Naming and aliases

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Mobile).

Other names (PassMark) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Mobile)

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 have?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has 8 GB of GDDR5X memory on a 256-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 320.3 GB/s.

How much power does the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 use and what power supply does it need?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has a board power rating of 180 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 scores 15,605 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 94.2% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #161. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 56 fps.