NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

22391 points

24070 points

7% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

485 FPS

559 FPS

74 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

275 FPS

276 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

380 FPS

406 FPS

25 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

229 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

225 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce RTX 4090 D and the GeForce RTX 5080? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8612 points

8762 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10629.29 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

9133.30 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

276510 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

267906 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

241275 points

257198 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2280 MHz

2295 MHz

0.66% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2520 MHz

2617 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

49% significantly more memory

16 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

425 W

360 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

443.5 Gigapixels/s

51% significantly higher pixel rate

293.1 Gigapixels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

14592

35% slightly more shading units

10752

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

456

35% slightly more texture mapping units

336

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

57% significantly more render output processors

112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

5th of 586

4th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 December

2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4090 D vs GeForce RTX 5080 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 D graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5080 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 5080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4090 D has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5080 has a slightly lower TDP at 360 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 D at 425 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4090 D over the GeForce RTX 5080.