GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 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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GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 27.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 44.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 35666 87569
Night Raid 115542 206648
Port Royal 9109 38202
Solar Bay 64022 236689
Time Spy 14655 46873
Wild Life Extreme 29561 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 146 299
1080p Ultra 122 254
1440p Ultra 92 207
4K Ultra 54 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 1241178556 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 25319314081 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 112966330 26123316077
Far Cry 6 13212210161 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 1501018965 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 92796136 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 101856536 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 17116112063 329302238128
The Witcher 3 17514210455 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 31856 85572
Face Detection (HP) 39785 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 8213 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 19891 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17598 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 4192 8184
Object Detection (SP) 10444 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 84003 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 207773 687080
Text Classification (SP) 2062 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 211 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 8.1 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 141.3 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.46 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.22 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 6.24 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 16980.5 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 627.3 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU102 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 9900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released September 27, 2018 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 3080 Ti —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1350 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1545 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 68 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 5632KB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 68 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 88 176
Shading Units 4352 21760
Tensor Cores 544 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 272 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 352-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 11 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 193 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 83 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 926 1410
GPU Compute 9831 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 754 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 250 W 575 W
Transistor Count 18 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 23.87 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 136 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 420 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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