NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 and 28GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 280.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (320W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (2520MHz vs 2505MHz)

More VRAM (28GB vs 16GB)

10752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +111%

103.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

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

2235 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

28GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

280.0GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

160

-

Compute Units

-

9728

Shading Units

20480

304

TMUs

640

112

ROPs

192

304

Tensor Cores

640

76

RT Cores

160

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

88 MB

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1613 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

103.2 TFLOPS

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

103.2 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.613 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GB202

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB202

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

0 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

Unknown

379 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

320W

TDP

500W

700 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

9.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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