NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

nvidia

Brand

16GB GDDR7

Memory

10752

Cores

960 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 5080

$999.99 Jan 2025 View Details

$999.99

nvidia

Brand

24GB GDDR6X

Memory

16384

Cores

1010 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 4090

$2,591.99 Sep 2022 View Details

$2,591.99

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

16GB GDDR7 360W $999.99 Jan 2025

GeForce RTX 5080

$999 • Jan 2025

GeForce RTX 4090

$1599 • Sep 2022

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

24GB GDDR6X 450W $2,591.99 Sep 2022

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Memory Size	16 GB	24 GB
Memory Type	GDDR7	GDDR6X
TDP	360 W	450 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2617 MHz	2520 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	960 GB/s	1010 GB/s
Process Size	5nm	5nm
Architecture	Blackwell 2.0	Ada Lovelace
Shading Units	10752	16384
RT Cores	84	128
TMUs	336	512
ROPs	112	176
Memory Bus	256-bit	384-bit
Memory Clock	1875 MHz	1313 MHz
Pixel Rate	293.1 GPixel/s	443.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	879.3 GTexel/s	1.01 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	56.28 GFLOPS	82.58 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	64.00 MB	72.00 MB
Die Size	378 mm²	609 mm²
Transistors	45600 Million	76300 Million
Required PSU	750 W	850 W
Power Connectors	1x 16-pin	1x 16-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.4	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

36148

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

42193 (+17%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

297747

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

316301 (+6%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

410.9 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

615.9 FPS (+50%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

36508

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

38309 (+5%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Game Benchmarks Comparison (270 benchmarks)

Crimson Desert

7.5 2026 • Action, Adventure • Pearl Abyss

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+14%)

AVG 124 FPS

MIN 103 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+14%)

AVG 91 FPS

MIN 75 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+25%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Winner

Loser

Resident Evil Requiem

8.7 2026 • Action, Adventure • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+4%)

AVG 194 FPS

MIN 156 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 187 FPS

MIN 150 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+12%)

AVG 157 FPS

MIN 128 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 140 FPS

MIN 122 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+15%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 85 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+53%)

AVG 401 FPS

MIN 349 FPS

GeForce RTX 4090

AVG 262 FPS

MIN 231 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+51%)

AVG 358 FPS

MIN 314 FPS

GeForce RTX 4090

AVG 237 FPS

MIN 207 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+54%)

AVG 283 FPS

MIN 253 FPS

GeForce RTX 4090

AVG 184 FPS

MIN 163 FPS

Winner

Loser

Styx: Blades of Greed

7.2 2026 • Action, Adventure • Cyanide Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+11%)

AVG 108 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 86 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+14%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+18%)

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

Winner

Loser

CODE VEIN II DEMO

7.8 2026 • Action, RPG • Bandai Namco Studios Inc.

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5080 (+1%)

AVG 139 FPS

MIN 124 FPS

GeForce RTX 4090

AVG 137 FPS

MIN 127 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 4090 (+11%)

AVG 103 FPS

MIN 91 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 4090 (+24%)

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

Winner

Loser

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora From The Ashes

7.6 2025 • Action, Adventure • Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Reflections

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+19%)

AVG 130 FPS

MIN 113 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+26%)

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+25%)

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Winner

Loser

PRAGMATA SKETCHBOOK - DEMO

8.2 2025 • Action, Adventure • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+13%)

AVG 147 FPS

MIN 134 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 130 FPS

MIN 120 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+21%)

AVG 126 FPS

MIN 115 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 104 FPS

MIN 95 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+24%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Wins!

Based on 270 benchmarks across 73 games

106

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

+9.3%

116

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 4090