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Benchmarks

Deep Learning GPU Benchmarks 2023–2024 [Updated]

Resnet50 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
488.56
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
356.36
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1597.66
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
1166.17
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Resnet50 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
741.26
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
541.07
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
2465.23
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
1799.44
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Resnet50 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
302.88
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
186.96
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1075.19
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
663.7
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Resnet50 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
330.72
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
204.15
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1132.16
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
698.86
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Resnet152 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
213.35
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
155.73
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
681.19
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
497.22
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Resnet152 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
290.23
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
211.85
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
977.06
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
713.18
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Resnet152 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Resnet152 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Inception V3 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
293.76
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
214.42
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1031
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
752.55
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Inception V3 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
404.99
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
295.61
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1467.97
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
1071.51
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Inception V3 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
198.81
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
122.72
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
739.49
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
456.47
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Inception V3 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
215.54
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
133.05
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
772.66
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
476.95
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Inception V4 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
155.84
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
113.74
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
564.62
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
412.13
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Inception V4 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
220.7
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
161.09
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
790.82
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
577.24
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Inception V4 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Inception V4 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

VGG16 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
264.14
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
192.8
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
578.14
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
422
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

VGG16 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
324.85
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
237.12
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
926.34
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
676.16
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

VGG16 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
178.65
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
110.28
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
452.2
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
279.14
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

VGG16 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
194.89
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
120.3
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
528.33
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
326.13
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Googlenet (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Googlenet (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

3D, GPU Rendering Benchmarks 2023–2024 [Updated]

V-Ray

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
345
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
299
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Octane

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
368
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
261
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Redshift

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
8.38
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
11.44
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Blender

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
3163.85
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
877.35
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Luxmark

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
33195
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
15128
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Unreal Engine

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
30.1
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

RELION Cryo-EM Benchmarks 2023-2024 [Updated]

Total run time

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

BERT LARGE Training, Inference Benchmark 2023-2024 [Updated]

Training Time (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Performance (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Training Time (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Performance (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
n/a

Technical Specifications

Board Design

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
Length 267 mm 267 mm
Outputs 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Power Connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
TDP 250 W 250 W

Clock Speeds

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
Boost Clock 1545 MHz 1582 MHz
GPU Clock 1350 MHz 1481 MHz
Memory Clock 14000 MHz 11008 MHz

Graphics Card

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Generation GeForce 20 GeForce 10

Graphics Features

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_1) 12 Ultimate (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.5 6.4
CUDA 7.5 6.1

Graphics Processor

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
Architecture Turing Pascal
Die Size 754 mm2 471 mm2
GPU Name TU102-300A-K1-A1 GP102-350-K1-A1
Process Size 12 nm 16 nm
Transistors 18600 million 11800 million

Memory

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
Bandwidth 616 GB/s 484.4 GB/s
Memory Bus 352 bit 352 bit
Memory Size 11 GB 11 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5X

Render Config

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
ROPs 88 88
RT Cores 68
Shading Units/ CUDA Cores 4352 3584
TMUs 272 224
Tensor Cores 544

Theoretical Performance

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
FP16 (half) performance 26.9 TFLOPS 0.1772 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) performance 13.45 TFLOPS 11.34 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 420.2 GFLOPS 354.4 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate 136 GPixel/s 139.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 420.2 GTexel/s 354.4 GTexel/s

Price

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
MSRP 1199 $ 699 $
Release Date Sep 20th, 2018 Mar 10th, 2017

Test bench configuration

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
Hardware BIZON G3000 More details BIZON G3000 More details
Software Deep learning:
Nvidia Driver: 440
CUDA: 10.1
TensorFlow: 1.14
Batch size: 64
3D Rendering:
Nvidia Driver: 442.19
VRay Benchmark: 4.10.3
Octane Benchmark: 4.00
Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.x
Blender: 2.81
Luxmark: 3.1
Deep learning:
Nvidia Driver: 440
CUDA: 10.1
TensorFlow: 1.14
Batch size: 64
3D Rendering:
Nvidia Driver: 442.19
VRay Benchmark: 4.10.3
Octane Benchmark: 4.00
Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.x
Blender: 2.81
Luxmark: 3.1

Recommended hardware

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