GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile vs GeForce 800M

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XMOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
GeForce 800M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 17 Mar 2014
GeForce 800M

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 800M

135 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080 MobileGeForce 800M
GPU NameGP104 ()vsGF117 (N14M-GL)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs585 million
Shaders2560vs48
Compute Units20vs1
Core clock1556 MHzvs738 MHz
ROPs64vs8
TMUs160vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080 MobileGeForce 800M
Memory TypeGDDR5XvsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1080 MobileGeForce 800M
TDP150 wattsvs15 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs17 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    99.60 GP/s
  • GeForce 800M
    1.47 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    249.00 GT/s
  • GeForce 800M
    5.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    320.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 800M
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    7967.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 800M
    141.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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