NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (2520MHz vs 1815MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1010GB/s vs 495.9GB/s)

13312 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +640%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

11.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +216%

36541

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

11546

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +285%

185

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

48

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +207%

280

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

91

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +135%

304

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

129

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +118%

94

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

43

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +255%

185

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

52

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +170%

195

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

72

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +177%

186

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

67

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +69%

203

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

120

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +29%

213

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

164

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +103%

167

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

82

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +56%

185

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

118

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +3%

186

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

180

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1650 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1010GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

3072

512

TMUs

192

176

ROPs

64

512

Tensor Cores

384

128

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

TU104

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-450-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

Board Design

450W

TDP

250W

850 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 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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