The GTX 1080 series cards not only excite gamers, but these cards are immensely popular among crypto miners. The high performance offered by GTX 1080 series cards is one of the reasons why miners have shown interest in these cards. Additionally, the failure of AMD mining GPU’s last year has also boosted miners’ interest in the cards in a major way.

Let’s go through some of the amazing features that both of the cards offer and see how beneficial they are for crypto miners.

NVIDIA GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti Specifications

GTX 1080 Ti

GPU Architecture: Pascal

Frame Buffer: 11 GB GDDR5X

Memory Speed: 11 Gbps

Boost Clock: 1582 MHz

GPU: GP102

Chip size: 471mm2

CUDA Cores: 3,584

TDP: 250W

GTX 1080

GPU Architecture: Pascal

Frame Buffer: 8 GB GDDR5X

Memory Speed: 10 Gbps

Boost Clock – Relative: 1.4 X

Boost Clock – Actual: 1733 MHz

GPU: GP104

Chip size: 314mm2

CUDA Cores: 2,560

TDP: 180W

NVIDIA GTX 1080 Series Ethereum Hashrate

GTX 1080 Ti

The hash rate of GTX 1080 TI is 32.04 MH/s which is better than the previous GTX 1070 version. The earlier version 1070 had a hash rate of 26 MH/s which can somehow be overclocked to 30 MH/s. In GTX 1080 version, the hash rate can easily be overclocked up to 35 MH/s in Ethereum if we overclock memory+300m MHz. Similarly, 37 MH/s can be obtained if we overclock memory+750 MH/s.

GTX 1080

The GTX 1080 is comparatively slower than 1080 Ti version. Its hash rate is only 20.35 MH/s under the same setup. However, in comparison to GTX 980, it performs 8 times better. The GTX 980 has a hashing reach of up to 2.95 MH/s. Despite this being a great improvement, it is still a far cry from the AMD line with the RX 480 outputting 24.86 MH/s on stock settings.

Which one is better?

The GTX 1080 Ti offers better performance than 1080. It does not have the same VRAM timing issues that 1080 has. Despite GTX being a great tool for miners, many people still agree that the GPU is not profitable for Ethereum mining. The reason behind this is the high price and greater power consumption, which is not feasible for Ethereum mining.

GTX 1080 Series Non-ETH Hashrate

Zcash: The performance of the 1080 Ti can go up to 740 Sol’s with a power draw of 285. And the performance can further be enhanced by reducing the power draw target by 75%. Similarly, with a drop of hash rate to about 600 Sol’s the power draw can be reduced up to 150 W which will greatly improve performance, power and hash ratio.

Overclocking: Overclocking GTX 1080 Ti and 1080 can get you up to 775 Sol’s. However, increasing the power draw rate will increase the price and make the whole process expensive which is definitely not advisable.

Other Algorithms: Numerous blogs have been set up that provide information on how the GTX 1080 performs on other algorithms. Ideally, overclocking determines the performance of the GPU. However, it is not always the scale to measure the performance of the GPU. These numbers are all the same considered a decent baseline to determine the performance of the GPU.

GTX 1080/1080 Ti Price

With regards to price, both GTX 1080/1080 Ti are expensive when compared to the previous versions i.e. GTX 1070 and GTX 1060. However, when we talk about the performance of the mining cards, both cards perform exceedingly well than the previous versions.