NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 504.2GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (2610MHz vs 2520MHz)

Lower TDP (285W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +105%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

40.09 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +34%

12393

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

9224

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4090 +35%

1274

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

938

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

-

128

SM Count

60

16384

Shading Units

7680

512

TMUs

240

176

ROPs

80

512

Tensor Cores

240

128

RT Cores

60

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

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Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

285W

850 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

AD104

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

4 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

295 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

8.9

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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