47 FPS average at 1440p across 9 games, anchored estimate · 1440p at reduced settings, or comfortable 1080p gaming
47 Avg FPS Includes estimates
Estimated, not measured. Every figure here is derived from our first-party results on comparable cards, and it will be replaced the day this one runs. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 averages 47 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 88 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 14 FPS, a 6.3x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means 1440p at reduced settings, or comfortable 1080p gaming. Under load we logged a peak of 173W against the 180W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 34 FPS | 27 | 6.75 GB | 171 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 40 FPS | 31 | 6.57 GB | 167 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 14 FPS | 12 | 7.36 GB | 166 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 51 FPS | 42 | 7 GB | 173 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 64 FPS | 41 | 5.29 GB | 171 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 88 FPS | 48 | 7.13 GB | 144 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 55 FPS | 42 | 7.36 GB | 169 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 44 FPS | 32 | 7.36 GB | 155 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 37 FPS | 31 | 7.05 GB | 171 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Pascal (GP104) |
| CUDA cores | 2,560 |
| VRAM | 8GB GDDR5X |
| Memory bus | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 320 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,733 MHz |
| TDP | 180 W |
| Process | 16nm |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2016-05-27 |
| Launch MSRP | $599 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 averages 47 FPS at 1440p on our suite. Estimated, not measured. Every figure here is derived from our first-party results on comparable cards, and it will be replaced the day this one runs.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #64 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT | 121% | 57 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | 111% | 52 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 | 111% | 52 | |
| Intel Arc A580 | 106% | 50 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 | 100% | 47 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6600 | 98% | 46 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 | 98% | 46 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti | 96% | 45 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 | 81% | 38 |
Same card, other workloads: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 AI benchmarks, LLM tokens/sec, image generation & VRAM fit
| Transistors | 7,200 million |
| Die size | 314 mm² |
| Process node | 16 nm |
| Fabricated by | TSMC |
| Transistor density | 22.9 million per mm² |
Denser than 62% of the 746 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.
Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.
Can't run: Product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Restore and enlarge photos (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), Short social clips (needs Qwen3 32B), 60-second AI short film (needs Qwen3 32B), 24-frame storyboard (needs Qwen3 32B), 6-panel comic page (needs Qwen3 32B), Long-form article batch (needs Llama 3.3 70B), Full codebase review (needs Qwen2.5-Coder 14B).
This card is $599 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on Vast.ai is $0.049/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.059/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 10,187 GPU-hours. Below it you are paying for idle silicon.
| How you would use it | GPU-hours a year | Rental cost a year | Time to break even |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 hours a day, hobby | 730 | $43 | 14.0 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $172 | 3.5 years |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $515 | 1.2 years |
At hobby usage this card is very unlikely to pay for itself before it is superseded. Rent it. Rental figures include a 20% premium over the cheapest listed rate. Ignores electricity, resale and the fact that a rented card can be a newer one tomorrow.
Cheapest of the RunPod and Vast on-demand rates we see, sampled daily. Spot and interruptible pricing runs lower.