GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce RTX 5080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Lower TDP (215W vs 360W)
GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 53% (2617MHz vs 1710MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
7808 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
10070
GeForce RTX 5080
+458%
56280
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2080
11078
GeForce RTX 5080
+198%
33116
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 2080
5146
GeForce RTX 5080
+223%
16627
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 2080
2171
GeForce RTX 5080
+328%
9296
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 2080
39
GeForce RTX 5080
+82%
71
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Jan 2025
GeForce 20
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
2295 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
2617 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
960.0GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
84
2944
Shading Units
10752
184
TMUs
336
64
ROPs
112
368
Tensor Cores
336
46
RT Cores
84
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
293.1 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
879.3 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
56.28 TFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
56.28 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
879.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
360W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
GB203
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
GB203-400-A1
Turing
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
5 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
45.6 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
378 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
7.5
CUDA
10.1
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
