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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 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 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 736.3GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (2550MHz vs 2520MHz)

Lower TDP (320W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +58%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

52.22 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +28%

36541

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

28458

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +39%

12921

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

9280

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4090 +28%

1278

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

992

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +34%

185

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

138

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +10%

280

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

254

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +1%

304

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

300

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +25%

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +42%

185

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

130

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +5%

195

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

185

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +17%

186

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

158

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +1%

203

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

200

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +6%

213

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

200

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090

167

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +7%

180

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +2%

185

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

180

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090

186

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +2%

190

GeForce RTX 4090

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235MHz

Base Clock

2295MHz

2520MHz

Boost Clock

2550MHz

1313MHz

Memory Clock

1438MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1008 GB/s

Bandwidth

736.3 GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

Compute Units

16384

Shading Units

10240

512

TMUs

320

176

ROPs

112

512

Tensor Cores

320

128

RT Cores

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72MB

L2 Cache

64MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

285.6 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

816.0 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

52.22 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

52.22 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

816.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

AD103

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD103-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

5 nm

76,300 million

Transistors

45,900 million

609mm²

Die Size

379mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

320W

850W

Suggested PSU

700W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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