NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA L40 — GPU Comparison (Apr 2026)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB GDDR5X, Pascal) vs NVIDIA L40 (48GB GDDR6, 181 TFLOPS FP16, Ada Lovelace)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA L40 — GPU Comparison (Apr 2026)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8GB GDDR5X · Pascal
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NVIDIA L40
48GB GDDR6 · Ada Lovelace
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Specifications
Manufacturer NVIDIA NVIDIA
Architecture Pascal Ada Lovelace
VRAM 8 GB GDDR5X 48 GB GDDR6
Memory Bandwidth 320 GB/s 864 GB/s
FP16 (Tensor) N/A 181.0 TFLOPS
FP32 8.9 TFLOPS 90.5 TFLOPS
TDP 180W 300W
Release Year 2016 2023
Segment Consumer Data center
Best For Legacy inference experimentation Inference video processing rendering
Cloud Pricing
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