NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2505MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

6784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 +384%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4080 +158%

28272

GeForce RTX 2080

10946

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +186%

132

GeForce RTX 2080

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +189%

246

GeForce RTX 2080

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +136%

300

GeForce RTX 2080

127

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +87%

73

GeForce RTX 2080

39

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +157%

121

GeForce RTX 2080

47

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +168%

180

GeForce RTX 2080

67

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +95%

123

GeForce RTX 2080

63

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +44%

165

GeForce RTX 2080

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +18%

188

GeForce RTX 2080

158

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +18%

126

GeForce RTX 2080

106

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +67%

181

GeForce RTX 2080

108

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +1%

182

GeForce RTX 2080

180

GeForce RTX 4080

VS

GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

76

SM Count

46

9728

Shading Units

2944

304

TMUs

184

112

ROPs

64

304

Tensor Cores

368

76

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

215W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

TU104

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

545 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

8.9

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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