PNY GeForce GTX 1080
vs
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2080 Evo

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.73 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 8.87 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2080 Evo has 2944 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.74 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.25 TFLOPS.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2080 Evo is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.251 GHz clocks.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2080 Evo has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 has a turbo clock of 1.733 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2080 Evo is 1.740 GHz.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2080 Evo is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 88 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the PNY GeForce GTX 1080 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2080 Evo is cooled by a Air cooling.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2080 Evo supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2080 Evo supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2080 Evo is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, PNY GeForce GTX 1080 was released in Q2/2016.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2080 Evo published in Q3/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.