NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1699.99
$ 1194.37
$ 505.62 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

211 %
4% slightly better overall score
201 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

482 FPS
17 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
465 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

242 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
232 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

356 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
342 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

193 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
186 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

35402
26% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
28065
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12168.35
31% slightly higher Blender score
9252.19
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

326781
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
245583
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

254242
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
198649

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2235 MHz
10% slightly higher core clock speed
2025 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2520 MHz
6% slightly higher boost clock speed
2375 MHz

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

450 W
420 W
7% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

483.8 Gigapixels/s
112% significantly higher pixel rate
228 Gigapixels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

82.58 TFLOPS
69% significantly better floating point performance
48.64 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

16384
60% significantly more shading units
10240

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

512
60% significantly more texture mapping units
320

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192
100% significantly more render output processors
96

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

2nd of 549
3rd of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

October 2022
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 4080 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4080 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 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 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 4080 has a slightly lower TDP at 420 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4090 is faster than the GeForce RTX 4080.

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