NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER compared with GeForce RTX 5080

	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 2070 SUPER	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 5080
Overview
Released
Released	July 2019	January 2025
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	Turing	Blackwell
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,560	10,752
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,770 MHz	2,617 MHz (better)
Architecture
Architecture	NVIDIA reference/Founders Edition GPU figures; photo shows PNY's stock-clock Dual Fan partner card	GB203 GPU; 84 SMs
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	–	TSMC 4nm (4N NVIDIA custom process); 45.6 billion transistors; 378 mm² die
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	First-generation RT Cores	84 fourth-generation RT Cores; 171 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI cores	Second-generation Tensor Cores	336 fifth-generation Tensor Cores; 1801 AI TOPS
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	NVIDIA DLSS super resolution; no DLSS frame generation	DLSS 4.5 with Super Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction, Frame Generation, Multi Frame Generation and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation
Base clock
Base clock	NVIDIA's current comparison rounds the base clock to 1.61 GHz; PNY publishes 1,605 MHz	2.30 GHz
Cache
Cache	–	64 MB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR7 (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	960 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	PNY publishes 14 Gbps GDDR6 and 448 GB/sec bandwidth	GDDR7 at 30 Gbps
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	215 W (better)	360 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 5.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	Pictured PNY Dual Fan has 3 × DisplayPort 1.4 and 1 × HDMI 2.0b. PCWorld's Founders Edition review also documents USB-C; NVIDIA's current comparison table lists only DisplayPort and HDMI for this model.	3 × DisplayPort 2.1b (UHBR20), 1 × HDMI 2.1b; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320; NVIDIA specifies support for four displays	4K at 480 Hz or 8K at 165 Hz with DSC
Power connector
Power connector	1 × 6-pin and 1 × 8-pin	1 × 450 W or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable, or 3 × PCIe 8-pin cables with the adapter in the box
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	NVIDIA specifies 650 W; requirements depend on the system	850 W
Slot width
Slot width	Two slots for the Founders Edition and pictured PNY Dual Fan	2-slot (Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	NVIDIA reference/Founders Edition is 266.74 × 115.7 mm; pictured PNY Dual Fan is 1.57 × 9.25 × 4.41 inches	304 × 137 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	Seventh-generation NVIDIA Encoder and fourth-generation Decoder; PNY specifies PCIe 3.0 x16. NVIDIA specifies NVLink support.	2 × ninth-generation NVENC, 2 × sixth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode