GeForce GTX 1080: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce GTX 1080 was NVIDIA's 2016 Pascal halo card for laptops — 8GB of GDDR5X, 8.9 teraflops, and the top of the stack in its year. This guide covers its 16 benchmarked games at 1080p on the high preset and the single catalog model that carries it.

Where the GeForce GTX 1080 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 61.0 ranks it 78th of 341 — the top quarter, a decade after launch. The neighbors: the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition (61.5), RX 6800S (61.3) and RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Laptop (61.1) above; the Apple M5 Max (60.3), RTX 2060 Max-Q (60) and RTX 2080 Super Max-Q (60) below. Outranking RTX 2060-class Turing and standing level with a current Blackwell professional record — Pascal's halo tier earned its longevity.

What the chip brings

Pascal on 16nm: 8GB of GDDR5X on a wide bus, 8.87 teraflops peak, full CUDA/DirectX/OpenGL/OpenCL/Vulkan support. Public benchmarks: PassMark 15603, Fire Strike 21409, compute at 64741 (Vulkan) and 55862 (OpenCL). The laptop 1080 ran close to its desktop sibling — the first generation where that was true, and the reason these machines still game seriously.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: Fortnite at 285, Valorant at 220, Counter-Strike 2 at 200, Battlefield 5 at 166, Forza Horizon 4 at 140, Far Cry 5 at 118, Forza Horizon 5 at 110, DOTA 2 at 102, the Resident Evil 4 remake at 100. The heavy tier: Cyberpunk 2077 at 85, The Witcher 3 at 74, Metro Exodus at 74. Every row above 70 fps — a 1080p table with 1440p headroom throughout.

Laptops that carry it

One listing: the Alienware 17 R5 (2018) at $664. Model medians: best-CPU 56.9, gaming index 82, mobility 10 — the graphics median equals this chip. A desktop-replacement flagship whose cooling was engineered for exactly this class of silicon; the gaming index of 82 puts it among the strongest single-model entries in this catalog tier-for-tier with machines twice its price.

Bottom line

The GTX 1080 in the Alienware 17 R5 is the classic used-flagship play: top-quarter ranking, a 100-fps-class game table, 8GB of VRAM, $664. The compromises are 2018 weight, 2018 battery life and a single-listing market. For a plug-in gaming station that outperforms mid-tier modern hardware at a third of the price, this page's single host machine makes the entire argument.