NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is a graphics card released on March 10, 2017, built on the Pascal architecture using a 16 nm process. It has 3,584 shading units, 11 GB of GDDR5X memory on a 352-bit bus, 484.4 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 1.58 GHz and a 250 W board power rating. It scores 18,591 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 6.1.
Depth: 46 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.
Performance
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti scores 18,591 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 96% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #112), measured across 33,239 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 941.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti averages DirectX 9 231 fps, DirectX 10 116 fps, DirectX 11 152 fps, DirectX 12 66 fps and GPU Compute 9,584 ops/s, across 33,239 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 11 GB of memory, a core clock of 1480 MHz, DirectX 12.0 and OpenGL 4.5, first benchmarked on 2017-03-10. 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 Ti specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, 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
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is based on the Pascal architecture, uses the GP102-350-K1-A1 graphics processor, is manufactured on a 16 nm process, contains 11,800 million transistors and has a die size of 471 mm².
Shader configuration
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has 3,584 shading units, 28 streaming multiprocessors, 224 texture mapping units and 88 render output units.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 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 Ti. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti runs at a base clock of 1.48 GHz and boosts to 1.58 GHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is equipped with 11 GB of GDDR5X memory, uses a 352-bit memory bus and delivers 484.4 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Board and power
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a board power rating of 250 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti was released on March 10, 2017 and launched at a price of $699.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 6.1.
Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
Features
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 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
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 6.1Support 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 Ti supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti supports CUDA (Compute capability 6.1) under Compute and AI.
Media engine
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 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.
| 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 Ti: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (6th Generation, encoder engines: 2) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (3rd Generation, decoder engines: 1).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti have?
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has 11 GB of GDDR5X memory on a 352-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 484.4 GB/s.
How much power does the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a board power rating of 250 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti?
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti scores 18,591 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 96% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #112. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 66 fps.
Does the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti support AV1 encoding?
No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti?
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has CUDA compute capability 6.1.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti use?
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti released and how much did it cost at launch?
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti was released on March 10, 2017 and launched at a price of $699.
Corrections to this record
After an audit, 3 values on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti record were corrected. Each change is listed with its old value, new value, rule and sources.
- Video memory:
11,000 MB→ 11,264 MB. Rule: Memory size restored to binary precision. stored 11000 MB is 11 GB in decimal units; sources state 11264 MB. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724); Wikipedia: List of Nvidia desktop graphics processing units (revision 1375708460); Wikipedia: GeForce 10 series (revision 1354558486); PassMark GPU benchmark list. - Transistors:
11,000 million→ 11,800 million. Rule: Transistor count restored to full precision. stored 11000 is 11800 truncated to whole billions. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724); Wikipedia: List of Nvidia desktop graphics processing units (revision 1375708460). - Compute units:
28cleared (now Not recorded). Rule: NVIDIA SM count moved out of compute units. compute units 28 on an NVIDIA GPU is its SM count (stated by the Wikipedia list articles). Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724); Wikipedia: List of Nvidia desktop graphics processing units (revision 1375708460).
The audit log is public: all changes for this GPU, the corrections overview and the method.
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