GeForce RTX 5090 vs RTX 5880 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 48GB VRAM RTX 5880 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 864.0GB/s)
7680 additional rendering cores
RTX 5880 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (2460MHz vs 2407MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 32GB)
Lower TDP (285W vs 575W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5090
+51%
104800
RTX 5880 Ada Generation
69270
Graphics Card
Jan 2025
Release Date
Jan 2024
GeForce 50
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2017 MHz
Base Clock
975 MHz
2407 MHz
Boost Clock
2460 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
32GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
384bit
1.79TB/s
Bandwidth
864.0GB/s
Render Config
170
SM Count
110
21760
Shading Units
14080
680
TMUs
440
176
ROPs
176
680
Tensor Cores
440
170
RT Cores
110
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
96 MB
L2 Cache
72 MB
Theoretical Performance
423.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
433.0 GPixel/s
1637 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1082 GTexel/s
104.8 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
69.27 TFLOPS
104.8 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
69.27 TFLOPS
1.637 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1082 GFLOPS
Board Design
575W
TDP
285W
950 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GB202
GPU Name
AD102
GB202-300-A1
GPU Variant
AD102
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
92.2 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
750 mm²
Die Size
609 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
12.0
CUDA
8.9
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
