NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2520MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

13440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +720%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +233%

36499

GeForce RTX 2080

10946

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +302%

185

GeForce RTX 2080

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +229%

280

GeForce RTX 2080

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +139%

304

GeForce RTX 2080

127

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +141%

94

GeForce RTX 2080

39

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +293%

185

GeForce RTX 2080

47

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +191%

195

GeForce RTX 2080

67

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +195%

186

GeForce RTX 2080

63

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +78%

203

GeForce RTX 2080

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +34%

213

GeForce RTX 2080

158

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +55%

165

GeForce RTX 2080

106

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +71%

185

GeForce RTX 2080

108

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +3%

186

GeForce RTX 2080

180

GeForce RTX 4090

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

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

128

SM Count

46

16384

Shading Units

2944

512

TMUs

184

176

ROPs

64

512

Tensor Cores

368

128

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

215W

850 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.13x 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

AD102

GPU Name

TU104

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

609 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

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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