GeForce RTX 2080 vs RTX 4000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)
RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 27% (2175MHz vs 1710MHz)
More VRAM (20GB vs 8GB)
3200 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
10070
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+165%
26730
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2080
11078
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+29%
14340
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 2080
5146
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+30%
6708
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 2080
2171
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+68%
3666
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Aug 2023
GeForce 20
Generation
Workstation Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
2175 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
20GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
160bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
48
2944
Shading Units
6144
184
TMUs
192
64
ROPs
64
368
Tensor Cores
192
46
RT Cores
48
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
139.2 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
417.6 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.73 TFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.73 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
130W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
AD104
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
-
Turing
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
5 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
294 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
1.3
7.5
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
