GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (44/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
GeForce

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

44/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 27.0 Poor 43.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 44.0 Poor 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Fire Strike 35666 72432
Night Raid 115542 195813
Port Royal 9109 26127
Solar Bay 64022 187525
Time Spy 14655 36299
Wild Life Extreme 29561 85218

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
CUDA 7.5 8.9
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 3
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 146 255
1080p Ultra 122 217
1440p Ultra 92 177
4K Ultra 54 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 1241178556 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 25319314081 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 112966330 22620814366
Far Cry 6 13212210161 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 1501018965 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 92796136 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 101856536 20016313274
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 17116112063 302284222118
The Witcher 3 17514210455 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 31856 75599
Face Detection (HP) 39785 78111
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 8213 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 19891 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17598 48114
Machine Translation (HP) 4192 6349
Object Detection (SP) 10444 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) 84003 289639
Style Transfer (SP) 207773 601428
Text Classification (SP) 2062 4074

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 211 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 8.1 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 141.3 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.46 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.22 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 6.24 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 16980.5 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 627.3 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture Turing Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU102 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 9900Kor above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released September 27, 2018 September 20, 2022
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 3080 Ti -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 1350 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 1545 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 68 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 5632KB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 68 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 88 176
Shading Units 4352 16384
Tensor Cores 544 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 272 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 352-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Size 11 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 193 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 83 FPS 151 FPS
G2D Mark 926 1303
GPU Compute 9831 Ops/s 26022 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Die Size 754 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 250 W 450 W
Transistor Count 18 billion 76.3 billion
Transistor Density 23.87 MTr/mm² 125.29 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 136 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 420 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) — Cinebench 2024

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