Nvidia geforce gtx 1080 specifications and features

GeForce GTX 1080 specifications. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 is the first GeForce 10000 series graphics card and built with a Pascal GPU manufactured in TSMC's 16nm FinFET process. The new card reaches a base frequency of 1, 607 MHz that goes up to 1, 733 in turbo mode.

GeForce GTX 1080 specifications and Pascal GP104

The GeForce GTX 1080 makes use of a single 8-pin power connector and features a 180W TDP, great efficiency for a card with performance that aims to outperform the GTX 980Ti quite comfortably and promises a huge margin of overclock.

Its Nvidia pascal GP104-400 GPU has a die size of 314 mm2 and 7.2 billion transistors that are distributed in a total of 40 Streaming Multiprocessors units. The latter add a whopping 2, 560 CUDA cores accompanied by 160 texturizing units (TMUs) and 64 crawling units (ROPs), all this translates into a theoretical maximum power of 8.2 TFLOPs at a turbo frequency of 1, 733 MHz.

The GPU is accompanied by the new high-performance memory standard GDDR5X in an amount of 8 GB at an effective frequency of 10 GHz that achieves a bandwidth of 320 GB / s with an interface of only 256 bits.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Specifications
	GeForce GTX 1080	GeForce GTX 980 Ti	GeForce GTX 980
Fabrication Node	16nm FinFET	28nm	28nm
Architecture	Pascal	Maxwell	Maxwell
Die Size	314 mm2	601 mm2	398 mm2
GPU	GP104-400	GM200-310	GM204-400
Transistors	7.2 b	8.0 b	5.2 b
Transistors per mm2	~ 22.9 m	~ 13.3 m	~ 13.1 m
Streaming Multiprocessors	twenty	22	16
CUDA Cores	2560	2816	2048
TMUs	160	176	128
ROPs	64	96	64
TFLOPs	8.2 TFLOPs	5.6 TFLOPs	4.6 TFLOPS
Memory type	8GB GDDR5X	6GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5
Base Clock	1607 MHz	1000 MHz	1127 MHz
Boost Clock	1733 MHz	1076 MHz	1216 MHz
Memory clock	1250 MHz	1750 MHz	1750 MHz
Effective Memory Clock	10000 MHz	7000 MHz	7000 MHz
Memory bus	256-bit	384-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	320 GB / s	337 GB / s	224 GB / s
TDP	180W	250W	165W
Power Connectors	1x 8pin	1x 6pin + 1x 8pin	2x 6pin
MSRP	$ 599 $ 699 FE	$ 649	$ 549

GeForce GTX 1080 specifications 8GB of GDDR5X memory

With the GeForce GTX 1080 card and its powerful Pascal GP104 GPU, Micron's new GDDR5X memory debuts that promises to greatly increase the performance of high-end graphics cards. The GDDR5X provides greater bandwidth thanks to its ability to initially reach an effective frequency of 10 GHz along with a 256-bit controller, all this translates into a bandwidth of 320 GB / s.

GeForce GTX 1080 specifications fourth generation Delta Color Compression

Pascal gives a new push to the "Delta Color Compression" technology that reaches its fourth generation to improve available bandwidth 1.7 times compared to the already successful Maxwell architecture. Higher available bandwidth translates to better performance and a greater ability to handle advanced and complex filters and high screen resolution.

GeForce GTX 1080 specifications video support

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Number of active heads	4	4
Number of connectors	6	6
Maximum resolution	7680 x 4320 @ 60 Hz (requires 2x DP 1.3 connectors)	5120 x 3200 @ 60 Hz (requires 2x DP 1.2)
Digital protocols	HDMI 2.0b with HDCP 2.2, DP (DP 1.2 certified) DP 1.3 Ready, DP 1.4 Ready)	LVDS, TMDS / HDMI 2.0 DP 1.2

GeForce GTX 1080 specifications support video formats

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
H.264 Encode	Yes (2x 4K @ 60Hz)	Yes
H.264 Decode	Yes (2x 4K @ 120 Hz up to 240 Mbps)	Yes
HEVC Encode	Yes (2x 4K @ 60Hz)	Yes
HEVC Decode	Yes (2x 4K @ 120 Hz / 8K @ 30 Hz up to 320 Mbps)	Do not
10-bit HEVC Encode	And it is	Do not
10-bit HEVC Decode	And it is	Do not
12-bit HEVC Decode	And it is	Do not
MPEG2 Decode	And it is	Yes
VP9 Decode	Yes (2x 4K @ 120 Hz up to 320 Mbps)	Do not

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NVIDIA Fast Sync

The GeForce GTX 1080 marks the premiere of the new Fast Sync technology of which we know nothing except that it promises much faster render times (30-40ms) than the G-Sync (90-110ms). It is most likely oriented to virtual reality.

High bandwidth SLI bridge

Pascal marks the debut of a new SLI bridge specializing in 2-way configurations in which two cards take advantage of all possible bandwidth to achieve the best performance scaling and 2560 x 1440 resolutions at 120 Hz, 5K and Surround.

GPU Boost 3.0

A new turbo technology arrives with Pascal to better take advantage of the full potential of the card and that it always works at the highest possible frequency, all with the aim of delivering the best benefits.

GeForce GTX 1080 performance

During her official presentation, Jen-Hsun Huang said that a single GTX 1080 is faster than a GTX 980 SLI. This is only true in a virtual reality scenario while in other conditions the gain will be significant but much less.

GeForce GTX 1080 HDR

GeForce GTX 1080 Preemption in VR - Pascal

GeForce GTX 1080 Multi-Projection Simultaneous

Asynchronous Computing

Unlike Maxwell, Pascal is 100% compatible with asynchronous shaders for better performance under DIrectX 12.

Source: videocardz