GeForce RTX 5090 vs GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 11GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5090 Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 56% (2407MHz vs 1545MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 11GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 616.0GB/s)
17408 additional rendering cores
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Advantages
Lower TDP (250W vs 575W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5090
+679%
104800
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
13450
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5090
+224%
47510
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
14622
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5090
+268%
25825
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
7001
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 5090
+380%
14621
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
3042
Graphics Card
Jan 2025
Release Date
Sep 2018
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2017 MHz
Base Clock
1350 MHz
2407 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
32GB
Memory Size
11GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
352bit
1.79TB/s
Bandwidth
616.0GB/s
Render Config
170
SM Count
68
21760
Shading Units
4352
680
TMUs
272
176
ROPs
88
680
Tensor Cores
544
170
RT Cores
68
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
96 MB
L2 Cache
0 MB
Theoretical Performance
423.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
136.0 GPixel/s
1637 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
420.2 GTexel/s
104.8 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.90 TFLOPS
104.8 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.45 TFLOPS
1.637 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
420.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
575W
TDP
250W
950 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB202
GPU Name
TU102
GB202-300-A1
GPU Variant
TU102-300A-K1-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
12 nm
92.2 billion
Transistors
18.6 billion
750 mm²
Die Size
754 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
7.5
6.8
Shader Model
6.6
