That coincided with the introduction of the CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) programming platform. The GTX 1080, with its CUDA cores, had the ability to handle demanding computational ...
The news comes from the update 12.8 release notes for the CUDA Toolkit ... performance golden age in hindsight, with the GTX 970, 980 Ti, 1060, and 1080 Ti in particular being fondly remembered ...
While CUDA support for Maxwell ... providing twice the density of Maxwell's 28nm node. As a result, The GTX 1080 was, on average, 60-65% faster than the GTX 980 and 30-35% faster than the GTX ...