NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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GeForce GTX 1080 Ti compared with GeForce RTX 5090

	NVIDIAGeForce GTX 1080 Ti	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 5090
Overview
Released
Released	March 2017	January 2025
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	Pascal	Blackwell
Shader cores
Shader cores	3,584	21,760
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,582 MHz	2,407 MHz (better)
Architecture
Architecture	Founders Edition specifications verified by MSI's retained technical page and datasheet; stock PNY Blower specifications verify memory bandwidth. The photo is the Founders Edition render extracted from MSI's datasheet with its original PDF transparency mask.	GB202 GPU; 170 SMs, 680 texture units, 176 ROPs
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	–	TSMC 4nm (4N NVIDIA custom process); 92.2 billion transistors; 750 mm² die
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated RT Cores	170 fourth-generation RT Cores; 318 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI cores	No Tensor Cores	680 fifth-generation Tensor Cores; 3352 AI TOPS
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	No NVIDIA DLSS	DLSS 4.5 with Super Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction, Frame Generation, Multi Frame Generation and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation
Base clock
Base clock	1480 MHz base and 1582 MHz boost (MSI Founders Edition specification)	2.01 GHz
Cache
Cache	–	96 MB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	11 GB GDDR5X	32 GB GDDR7 (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	352-bit	512-bit (better)
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	484 GB/s	1,792 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	11 Gbps GDDR5X (PNY stock Blower); MSI lists 11010 MHz memory speed	GDDR7 at 28 Gbps
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	250 W (better)	575 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 5.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort 1.4, 1 × HDMI 2.0b; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.2. MSI's datasheet connection illustration names DVI-D despite its output specification omitting it; the Founders Edition has no native DVI connector.	3 × DisplayPort 2.1b (UHBR20), 1 × HDMI 2.1b; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320	4K at 480 Hz or 8K at 165 Hz with DSC
Power connector
Power connector	1 × PCIe 6-pin and 1 × PCIe 8-pin	1 × 600 W PCIe Gen 5 cable, or 4 × PCIe 8-pin cables with the adapter in the box
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	600 W	1000 W
Slot width
Slot width	2-slot (Founders Edition)	2-slot (Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	266 × 111 × 40 mm (MSI Founders Edition)	304 × 137 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	–	3 × ninth-generation NVENC, 2 × sixth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode