GeForce RTX 4080 vs GeForce RTX 5090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (2505MHz vs 2407MHz)
Lower TDP (320W vs 575W)
GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (32GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 716.8GB/s)
12032 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4080
48740
GeForce RTX 5090
+115%
104800
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4080
28173
GeForce RTX 5090
+68%
47510
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4080
14002
GeForce RTX 5090
+84%
25825
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 4080
7254
GeForce RTX 5090
+101%
14621
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Jan 2025
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2205 MHz
Base Clock
2017 MHz
2505 MHz
Boost Clock
2407 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
716.8GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
76
SM Count
170
9728
Shading Units
21760
304
TMUs
680
112
ROPs
176
304
Tensor Cores
680
76
RT Cores
170
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 MB
L2 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
280.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
423.6 GPixel/s
761.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1637 GTexel/s
48.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
104.8 TFLOPS
48.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.8 TFLOPS
761.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.637 TFLOPS
Board Design
320W
TDP
575W
700 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
AD103
GPU Name
GB202
AD103-300-A1
GPU Variant
GB202-300-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
45.9 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
379 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
8.9
CUDA
12.0
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
