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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is NVIDIA’s Pascal desktop graphics card with 11 GB of GDDR5X memory, 3,584 shading units and a boost clock of 1582 MHz.
Drawn from this part’s own specifications. No openly-licensed photograph of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti exists, so this is an illustration rather than a photograph.
Overview
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is NVIDIA’s Pascal desktop graphics card with 11 GB of GDDR5X memory, 3,584 shading units and a boost clock of 1582 MHz. These are the manufacturer’s published figures. They describe what the chip is designed to do, not what your particular machine does with it, and the gap between those two is usually cooling. A boost clock is a ceiling rather than a promise, and how long a graphics card holds it under continuous load is the one thing no specification sheet can tell you.
Specifications
- Architecture
- Pascal
- Shading units
- 3,584
- Base clock
- Not verified
- Boost clock
- 1582 MHz
- Memory
- 11 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR5X
- Memory bus
- 352-bit
- TDP
- 250 W
- Process
- Not verified
- Launched
- 2017-03-10
Comparable within an architecture. Across vendors or generations it is not a like-for-like count.
Board power, not measured draw. A laptop GPU's power is a range the laptop maker chooses within.
Sources
Each figure, the label its source printed beside it, and the day it was read.
| Figure | As printed | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| ArchitecturePascal | GPU Architectureunder GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | nvidia.com, archivedArchived maker's page, captured | |
| Shading units3,584 | CUDA Coresunder GeForce GTX 1080 | nvidia.com, archivedArchived maker's page, captured | |
| Boost clock1582 MHz | Boost Clock (MHz)under GeForce GTX 1080 | nvidia.com, archivedArchived maker's page, captured | |
| Memory11 GB | Standard Memory Configunder GeForce GTX 1080 | nvidia.com, archivedArchived maker's page, captured | |
| Memory typeGDDR5X | Standard Memory Configunder GeForce GTX 1080 | nvidia.com, archivedArchived maker's page, captured | |
| Memory bus352-bit | Memory Interface Widthunder GeForce GTX 1080 | nvidia.com, archivedArchived maker's page, captured | |
| TDP250 W | Graphics Card Powerunder GeForce GTX 1080 | nvidia.com, archivedArchived maker's page, captured | |
| Launched2017-03-10 | will be available worldwide from NVIDIA GeForce partners beginning March 10 | nvidianews.nvidia.comLaunch release |
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Compare
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- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
What these numbers mean
Every figure on this sheet is a design target. None of it is a measurement.
Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.
We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.