NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 0% (2617MHz vs 2610MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 504.2GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (285W vs 360W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5080
+40%
56.28 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB
40.09 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce RTX 5080
9152
GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB
9224
Graphics Card
Jan 2025
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2295 MHz
Base Clock
2310 MHz
2617 MHz
Boost Clock
2610 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
960.0GB/s
Bandwidth
504.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
84
SM Count
60
10752
Shading Units
7680
336
TMUs
240
112
ROPs
80
336
Tensor Cores
240
84
RT Cores
60
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
293.1 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
208.8 GPixel/s
879.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
626.4 GTexel/s
56.28 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
40.09 TFLOPS
56.28 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
40.09 TFLOPS
879.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
626.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
360W
TDP
285W
750 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GB203
GPU Name
AD104
GB203-400-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-400-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
4 nm
45.6 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
378 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
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
10.1
CUDA
8.9
6.8
Shader Model
6.6
