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Can I run Grand Theft Auto V with a GeForce GTX 1080?

The GeForce GTX 1080 misses the high tier of Grand Theft Auto V by 8% - index 11 against 12 - which is the narrowest kind of miss there is, and it still counts as a miss.

The GeForce GTX 1080 is the fastest card we track that still stops here in Grand Theft Auto V: everything above it on our index reaches further, and 7 slower cards land in the same place.

estimated index 11 · 8 GB · 2016
Ceiling with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 32 GB

Runs well

Clears the recommended tier, which is the target the publisher designs against.

Headroom
83% clear - a wide margin on GPU
Bottleneck
GPU
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

  1. minimum cleared
  2. recommended cleared
  3. high blocked by GPU
  4. ultra blocked by GPU

The weakest link is graphics card: this rig brings 11 against the 12 that Grand Theft Auto V asks for at the high tier. Everything else in the rig is already past that line.

That readout is the best this card can do in Grand Theft Auto V: it assumes nothing else in the machine holds it back. Your own processor and memory can only lower it, never raise it.

The same card with three different processors

In Grand Theft Auto V the processor beside a GeForce GTX 1080 changes the answer, which is why a card-only verdict is not worth much here. Each row assumes 16 GB of system memory.

Processor Index Verdict Bottleneck
Ryzen 5 1600 30 Will not run processor
Ryzen 9 5900X 70 Runs well graphics card
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 95 Runs well graphics card

Cheapest way up one tier

graphics card: GeForce RTX 3060 12GB

The GeForce GTX 1080 sits at index 11 and the high tier starts at 12.

That is the smallest part in our catalogue that clears the high tier - not the fastest one, and not a price claim: we hold no price data, so "cheapest" here means "least upgrade that does the job".

Where to look: GeForce RTX 3060 12GB (no store links yet)

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the GeForce GTX 1080 clears that number, red means it does not. The processor and memory columns are yours to fill in with the checker below.

System requirement thresholds for Grand Theft Auto V, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 2 6 12 18 11
CPU index 42 45 50 62 0
Video memory 1 GB 2 GB 6 GB 8 GB 8 GB
System memory 4 GB 8 GB 16 GB 16 GB 0 GB
Storage 125 GB 125 GB 125 GB 125 GB -

The CPU and system memory rows show zero because this page knows the card and nothing else.

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GeForce GTX 1080

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Questions

Will a GeForce GTX 1080 run Grand Theft Auto V?
The GeForce GTX 1080 misses the high tier of Grand Theft Auto V by 8% - index 11 against 12 - which is the narrowest kind of miss there is, and it still counts as a miss. Above that the graphics card is what stops it.
Is 8 GB of video memory enough for Grand Theft Auto V?
Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 8 GB of video memory does in Grand Theft Auto V.

More on this card: what the GeForce GTX 1080 runs across every game we track.