NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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GeForce GTX 1080 compared with GeForce RTX 5090

	NVIDIAGeForce GTX 1080	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 5090
Overview
Released
Released	May 2016	January 2025
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	Pascal	Blackwell
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,560	21,760
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,733 MHz or 1,759 MHz	2,407 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	GP104; 7.2 billion transistors; 160 texture units and 64 ROPs. Main specifications and photo describe the original Founders Edition; the later 11 Gbps memory version is represented by MSI's GAMING+ 8G in its default Gaming mode.	GB202 GPU; 170 SMs, 680 texture units, 176 ROPs
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	16 nm FinFET	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	1607 MHz (original Founders Edition); MSI GAMING+ 8G has 1620 MHz base and 1759 MHz boost in Gaming mode, 1632/1771 MHz in OC mode and 1607/1733 MHz in Silent mode.	2.01 GHz
Cache
Cache	2048 KB L2	96 MB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR5X	32 GB GDDR7 (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit	512-bit (better)
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	320 GB/s or –	1,792 GB/s
Memory detail
Memory detail	Original 10 Gbps GDDR5X; MSI GAMING+ 8G lists 11010 MHz effective memory speed. Its bandwidth is not published in the maker's datasheet and is omitted from that configuration.	GDDR7 at 28 Gbps
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	180 W (better)	575 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 5.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort 1.4, 1 × HDMI 2.0b and 1 × dual-link DVI-D; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.2 (MSI Founders Edition). NVIDIA's launch table calls the DVI connector DVI-I; MSI's actual card specification identifies DVI-D.	3 × DisplayPort 2.1b (UHBR20), 1 × HDMI 2.1b; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320 (MSI Founders Edition)	4K at 480 Hz or 8K at 165 Hz with DSC
Power connector
Power connector	1 × 8-pin (Founders Edition); 1 × 6-pin and 1 × 8-pin (MSI GAMING+ 8G)	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	500 W	1000 W
Slot width
Slot width	–	2-slot (Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	269 × 111 × 40 mm and 1100 g (MSI Founders Edition); 277 × 140 × 42 mm and 1100 g (MSI GAMING+ 8G)	304 × 137 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	HEVC 10-bit encode and decode	3 × ninth-generation NVENC, 2 × sixth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode