NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER compared with GeForce RTX 5090

	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 2070 SUPER	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 5090
Overview
Released
Released	July 2019	January 2025
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	Turing	Blackwell
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,560	21,760
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,770 MHz	2,407 MHz (better)
Architecture
Architecture	NVIDIA reference/Founders Edition GPU figures; photo shows PNY's stock-clock Dual Fan partner card	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	First-generation RT Cores	170 fourth-generation RT Cores; 318 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI cores	Second-generation Tensor Cores	680 fifth-generation Tensor Cores; 3352 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	2.01 GHz
Cache
Cache	–	96 MB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	32 GB GDDR7 (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit	512-bit (better)
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	1,792 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	PNY publishes 14 Gbps GDDR6 and 448 GB/sec bandwidth	GDDR7 at 28 Gbps
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	215 W (better)	575 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 × 600 W PCIe Gen 5 cable, or 4 × 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	1000 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.	3 × ninth-generation NVENC, 2 × sixth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode