NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, 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

$ 1819.99
$ 1119.20
$ 700.79 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

33119 points
37% slightly better overall score
24070 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

787 FPS
228 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
559 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

382 FPS
106 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
276 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

567 FPS
161 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
406 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

318 FPS
93 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
225 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9236 points
5% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
8762 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11723.75 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
9133.30 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

318192 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
267906 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

273214 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
257198 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2235 MHz
2295 MHz
2% 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

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

1010 GB/s
5% slightly higher memory bandwidth
960 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

450 W
360 W
25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

483.8 Gigapixels/s
65% significantly higher pixel rate
293.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

1290 Gigatexels/s
46% significantly higher texture rate
879.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

82.58 TFLOPS
46% significantly better floating point performance
56.28 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

16384
52% significantly more shading units
10752

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

512
52% significantly more texture mapping units
336

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192
71% significantly more render output processors
112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

2nd of 586
4th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR7

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 5080 specs and performance

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

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

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