GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce RTX 4090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to GeForce RTX 2080 (37/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce RTX 2080
GeForce

GeForce RTX 2080

37/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 27.0 Poor 43.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 35.0 Poor 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
Fire Strike 27672 72432
Night Raid 100912 195813
Port Royal 6460 26127
Solar Bay 49851 187525
Time Spy 11077 36299
Wild Life Extreme 22307 85218

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
CUDA 7.5 8.9
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 3
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 118 255
1080p Ultra 97 217
1440p Ultra 72 177
4K Ultra 40 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 97916742 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 21316211662 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 86784721 22620814366
Far Cry 6 112977643 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 127807148 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 78634627 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 80655225 20016313274
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1291228945 302284222118
The Witcher 3 1441178747 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 28373 75599
Face Detection (HP) 34245 78111
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 7122 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 17897 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 16120 48114
Machine Translation (HP) 4328 6349
Object Detection (SP) 8748 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) 69601 289639
Style Transfer (SP) 154510 601428
Text Classification (SP) 2181 4074

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 191.8 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 6.2 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 115.9 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.3 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.56 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 4.74 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 15858.8 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 499.7 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture Turing Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU104 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $699 $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -AMD Ryzen 9 9900Xor above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released September 20, 2018 September 20, 2022
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5080 -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 1515 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 1710 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 46 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 46 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 176
Shading Units 2944 16384
Tensor Cores 368 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 184 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 256-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 160 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 71 FPS 151 FPS
G2D Mark 897 1303
GPU Compute 7719 Ops/s 26022 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
Die Size 545 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 215 W 450 W
Transistor Count 13 billion 76.3 billion
Transistor Density 23.85 MTr/mm² 125.29 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 109 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 315 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 4090
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) — Cinebench 2024

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