GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 SUPER (75/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 45.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 78.0 Good 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 63706 87569
Night Raid 180569 206648
Port Royal 18353 38202
Solar Bay 139050 236689
Time Spy 28271 46873
Wild Life Extreme 59996 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 8.9 12.0
DLSS DLSS 3 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 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 219 299
1080p Ultra 187 254
1440p Ultra 149 207
4K Ultra 89 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 216208168115 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 30222716785 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 19917412359 26123316077
Far Cry 6 18216214692 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 231166153123 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 14612511171 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 16613611060 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 288266201112 329302238128
The Witcher 3 24221515883 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 66477 85572
Face Detection (HP) 70300 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 12453 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 34467 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43534 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 6614 8184
Object Detection (SP) 18301 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 242331 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 417906 687080
Text Classification (SP) 3767 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 279.5 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 15.2 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 220.1 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.08 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 16.2 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 11 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 37199.7 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 1370 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD103 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 14700Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released January 31, 2024 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 2295 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 2550 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 80 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 64MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 80 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 176
Shading Units 10240 21760
Tensor Cores 320 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 320 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 256-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 23000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1438 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 300 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 135 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 1278 1410
GPU Compute 19597 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 379 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 320 W 575 W
Transistor Count 45 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 118.73 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 286 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 816 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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