NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (2520MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 912.4GB/s)

11520 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (350W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +221%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

34.1 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

May 2021

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6X

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

80

21760

Shading Units

10240

680

TMUs

320

192

ROPs

112

680

Tensor Cores

320

170

RT Cores

80

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

88 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

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Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

350W

900 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

GA102

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

28.3 billion

Unknown

Die Size

628 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

10.1

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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