GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 Ti (59/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 35.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 60.0 Average 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 47869 87569
Night Raid 145258 206648
Port Royal 13265 38202
Solar Bay 96626 236689
Time Spy 19633 46873
Wild Life Extreme 42724 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 8.6 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 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 179 299
1080p Ultra 151 254
1440p Ultra 118 207
4K Ultra 69 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 16915812182 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 27720515582 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 1461288640 26123316077
Far Cry 6 15314212375 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 18612511790 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 114968251 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 1311088446 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 23522016589 329302238128
The Witcher 3 20417312567 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 36756 85572
Face Detection (HP) 49813 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 9747 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 26654 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 21475 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 4757 8184
Object Detection (SP) 12924 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 135370 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 274032 687080
Text Classification (SP) 2796 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 239.8 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 14.8 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 156.8 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.53 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 11.9 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 10.8 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 26054.6 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 889.6 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 6900 XT
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GA102 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $1199 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 12900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released January 3, 2021 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1365 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1665 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 80 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 6MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 80 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 176
Shading Units 10240 21760
Tensor Cores 320 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 320 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 384-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 19000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1188 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 12 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 221 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 109 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 1095 1410
GPU Compute 14943 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 628 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 350 W 575 W
Transistor Count 28 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 44.59 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 186 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 533 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Date Benchmark
📘 2025-11-01(cancel) Cinebench 2024

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