NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2520MHz vs 1733MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 352.3GB/s)

19200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +1136%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

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GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5X

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

352.3GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

20

21760

Shading Units

2560

680

TMUs

160

192

ROPs

64

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

88 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

180W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

GP104

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-410-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

16 nm

Unknown

Transistors

7.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

10.1

CUDA

6.1

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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