NVIDIA GeForce RTX 6080: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 6080 sales on 2027. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Rubin architecture and made with 3 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 20 GB of GDDR7 memory clocked at 1.88 GHz are supplied, and together with 320 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1.2 TB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 5.0 x16 interface. 1x 16-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 350 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 6080: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Rubin (2027) | |
| GPU code name | GR203 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 2027 |
Detailed specifications
GeForce RTX 6080's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 6080's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 10752 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Core clock speed | 2300 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 2800 MHz | of 3230 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 3 nm | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 350 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 940.8 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 60.21 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 112 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 336 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Tensor Cores | 336 | of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 84 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| L1 Cache | 10.5 MB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 64 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 6080 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 16-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 6080: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR7 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 20 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 320 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1875 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1.2 TB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 6080. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce RTX 6080, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.9 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | |
| CUDA | 12.0 | |
| DLSS | + |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 6080 is Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
