GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER (38/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 27.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 37.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 28789 87569
Night Raid 108237 206648
Port Royal 7001 38202
Solar Bay 52087 236689
Time Spy 11621 46873
Wild Life Extreme 23794 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 125 299
1080p Ultra 102 254
1440p Ultra 75 207
4K Ultra 43 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 108976945 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 22316912264 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 89824924 26123316077
Far Cry 6 1151038247 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 134857251 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 77644828 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 87695326 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1401309448 329302238128
The Witcher 3 1481239050 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 26815 85572
Face Detection (HP) 30849 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 6780 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 15029 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15410 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 3417 8184
Object Detection (SP) 8214 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 71857 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 148497 687080
Text Classification (SP) 1983 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 197.1 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 6.5 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 110.7 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.28 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.05 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 5.03 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 15732.9 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 576.8 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU104 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $699 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 9900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released July 23, 2019 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1650 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1815 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 48 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 176
Shading Units 3072 21760
Tensor Cores 384 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 192 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 256-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 15500 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1937 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 168 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 75 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 917 1410
GPU Compute 8159 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 545 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 250 W 575 W
Transistor Count 13 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 23.85 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 116 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 348 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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