GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 5080

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

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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GeForce RTX 5080
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5080

84/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 88.0 Very Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 72432 75605
Night Raid 195813 199650
Port Royal 26127 23275
Solar Bay 187525 161489
Time Spy 36299 33000
Wild Life Extreme 85218 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 8.9 12.0
DLSS DLSS 3 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 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 255 239
1080p Ultra 217 205
1440p Ultra 177 165
4K Ultra 106 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 21319213861
Far Cry 6 203179170104 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 306276214111
The Witcher 3 292268191101 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 69068
Face Detection (HP) 78111 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 7905
Object Detection (SP) 21186 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 349205
Text Classification (SP) 4074 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD102 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $1599 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released September 20, 2022 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 2235 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 112
Shading Units 16384 10752
Tensor Cores 512 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 384-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 323 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 1397
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 609 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 360 W
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024 —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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