9 games at 1440p, 61 FPS on average, anchored estimate · 1440p at reduced settings, or comfortable 1080p gaming
61 Avg FPS Includes estimates
Treat these as estimates. They are interpolated from our own measured results on comparable silicon, and they carry the estimate label until this card is benched. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti averages 61 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 112 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 18 FPS, a 6.2x 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 240W against the 250W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 44 FPS | 35 | 6.75 GB | 238 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 52 FPS | 41 | 6.57 GB | 232 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 18 FPS | 15 | 9.49 GB | 230 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 65 FPS | 53 | 7 GB | 240 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 82 FPS | 52 | 5.29 GB | 238 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 112 FPS | 61 | 7.13 GB | 200 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 70 FPS | 54 | 9.84 GB | 235 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 55 FPS | 41 | 10.12 GB | 215 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 47 FPS | 39 | 7.05 GB | 238 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Pascal |
| CUDA cores | 3,584 |
| VRAM | 11GB GDDR5X |
| Memory bus | 352-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 484 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,582 MHz |
| TDP | 250 W |
| Process | 16nm |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2017-03-10 |
| Launch MSRP | $699 |
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti averages 61 FPS at 1440p on our suite. Treat these as estimates. They are interpolated from our own measured results on comparable silicon, and they carry the estimate label until this card is benched.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #56 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Radeon RX 6700 | 103% | 63 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7600 | 103% | 63 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 | 103% | 63 | |
| Intel Arc B570 | 102% | 62 | |
| GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | 100% | 61 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super | 100% | 61 | |
| Intel Arc A750 | 98% | 60 | |
| NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal) | 97% | 59 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT | 93% | 57 |
Same card, other workloads: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AI benchmarks, LLM tokens/sec, image generation & VRAM fit
| Transistors | 12,000 million |
| Die size | 471 mm² |
| Process node | 16 nm |
| Fabricated by | TSMC |
| Transistor density | 25.5 million per mm² |
Denser than 73% 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.
| Workflow | Time | Energy | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full codebase review | 36.6 min | 155.09 Wh | measured |
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).
This card is $699 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on Vast.ai is $0.065/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.078/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 8,962 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 | $57 | 12.3 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $228 | 3.1 years |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $683 | 1.0 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.