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Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition Benchmark and Specs

Here we show you benchmarks and technical data for the Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition. The graphics card is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Pascal) and has 8 GB GDDR5X graphics memory with a memory bandwidth of 320 GB/s. The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition has 20 execution units with 2560 shaders.

FP32: 8.87TFLOPS
Boost Clock: 1.73GHz
Memory: 8GB GDDR5X
TDP: 180 W

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Technical details

GPU

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition has 2560 shaders and 20 execution units. The graphics card thus achieves a theoretical FP32 computing power of 8.87 TFLOPS.

Based on: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GPU Chip: GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1 (Pascal)
Streaming Multiprocessors: 20
Shader: 2560
Render Output Units: 64
Texture Units: 160

Memory

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition can use 8 GB graphics memory of the type GDDR5X. The graphics card thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 320 GB/s on a 256 bit wide memory interface.

Memory Size: 8 GB
Memory Type: GDDR5X
Memory Clock: 1.251 GHz
Memory Speed: 10.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 320 GB/s
Memory Interface: 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The base clock frequency of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is 1.607 GHz. A high clock frequency (even in turbo mode) can greatly increase the speed of a graphics card.

Base Clock: 1.607 GHz
Boost Clock: 1.733 GHz
Overclocking: Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is 180 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

TDP: 180 W
Tjunction max: 94 °C
PCIe-Power: 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition has a total of 1 Radial fans to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type: Radial
Fan 1: 1 x 70 mm
Cooler-Type: Air cooling

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition.

Max. Displays: 4
HDCP: 2.2
HDMI: 1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort: 3x DP 1.4
DVI: 1

Featureset

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition has a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels. The graphics card supports the DirectX 12_1 standard.

Max. resolution: 7680x4320
DirectX: 12_1
Raytracing: No
DLSS / FSR: Yes
LED: No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The video codecs accelerated in hardware by the Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition reduce the processor load and ensure lower energy consumption.

h264: Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode
VP9: Decode
AV1: No

Dimensions

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is 267 mm long and 112 mm high. With a width of --, the graphics card requires 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

Length: 267 mm
Height: 112 mm
Width (Slots): 2 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready: No

Additional data

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition made in 16 nm was published in Q2/2016 for 599 $.

GPU Interface: PCIe 3.0 x 16
Release date: Q2/2016
Launch Price: 599 $ (Reference)
Structure size: 16 nm
Part-no: 426018336-3620
Documents: data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score Rank 3,721 / 5,633

Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5X
3,319
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Average of gpu group
3,417

Port Royal (Raytracing) Rank 3,674 / 4,176

Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5X
1,589
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Average of gpu group
1,636

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Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p) Rank 3,194 / 4,595

Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5X
40 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Average of gpu group
52 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 3,247 / 4,594

Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5X
75 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Average of gpu group
97 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 3,250 / 4,601

Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5X
106 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Average of gpu group
128 fps (avg)

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL Rank 3,807 / 5,255

Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5X
53,292
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Average of gpu group
54,343

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 3,418 / 5,233

Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5X
63,883
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Average of gpu group
65,771

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FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.