NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Whitepaper — Gaming Perfected

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Type: Vendor documentation
Tier: A: Vendor documentation, a government document, a technical manual or an official benchmark result. One tier A source is sufficient to publish a figure.
Locator: "GeForce GTX 1080 GPU Architecture In-Depth", p. 9, comparison table and its footnote
Published: 2016
Consulted: 2026-08-03
Address: https://international.download.nvidia.com/geforce-com/international/pdfs/GeForce_GTX_1080_Whitepaper_FINAL.pdf
Retrieved: 3184765 bytes, SHA-256 4329024604466005… Recorded by the pipeline as evidence of what was downloaded, never as a fact about the hardware.
License: Copyright NVIDIA Corporation. Quoted here under short-extract fair use for verification of the figures cited.
Usage: The architecture whitepaper, cited alongside the launch article because it is the only NVIDIA document here that states a floating-point rate for this card, and the only one that says what its footnote means: the rate is computed at the boost clock rather than the base clock.