MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING Z 8G Benchmark and Specs

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING Z 8G is equipped with 20 execution and 2560 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 9.78 TFLOPS is achieved.

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

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING Z 8G has a 256 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 323 GB/s is achieved. In total, 8 GB GDDR5X graphics memory is available for the graphics card.

Memory Size

8 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5X

Memory Clock

1.264 GHz

Memory Speed

10.1 Gbps

Memory bandwidth

323 GB/s

Memory Interface

256 bit

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING Z 8G with 1.607 GHz (base clock) or with 1.911 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock

1.607 GHz

Boost Clock

1.911 GHz+10 %

Avg (Game) Clock

1.873 GHz

Overclocking

Yes

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING Z 8G has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

TDP

180 W

Tjunction max

94 °C

PCIe-Power

1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING Z 8G is equipped with 2 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type

Axial

Fan 1

2 x 100 mm

Cooler-Type

Air cooling

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING Z 8G, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.2 version.

Max. Displays

4

HDCP

2.2

HDMI

1x HDMI 2.0b

DisplayPort

3x DP 1.4

DVI

1

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING Z 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels and the DirectX standard version 12_1.

Max. resolution

7680x4320

DirectX

12_1

Raytracing

No

DLSS / FSR

Yes

LED

MSI Mystic Light

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING Z 8G in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.

h264

Decode / Encode

h265 / HEVC

Decode / Encode

VP8

Decode

VP9

Decode

AV1

No

The dimensions of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING Z 8G are 279 mm in length, 140 mm in height and 42 mm in width. Thus 2 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length

279 mm

Height

140 mm

Width

42 mm

Width (Slots)

2 PCIe-Slots

Weight

1112 g

SFF-Ready

No

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING Z 8G is manufactured in a structure width of 16 nm and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q2/2016.

GPU Interface

PCIe 3.0 x 16

Release date

Q2/2016

Launch Price

599 $ (Reference)

Structure size

16 nm

Documents

data sheet