GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce RTX 5090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 575W)
GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2407MHz vs 1710MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
18816 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
10070
GeForce RTX 5090
+940%
104800
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2080
11078
GeForce RTX 5090
+328%
47510
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 2080
5146
GeForce RTX 5090
+401%
25825
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 2080
2171
GeForce RTX 5090
+573%
14621
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
2017 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
2407 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
170
2944
Shading Units
21760
184
TMUs
680
64
ROPs
176
368
Tensor Cores
680
46
RT Cores
170
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
423.6 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1637 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
104.8 TFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.8 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.637 TFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
575W
550 W
Suggested PSU
950 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
GB202
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
GB202-300-A1
Turing
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
5 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
750 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
12.0
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
