NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER compared with GeForce RTX 5070

	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 2080 SUPER	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 5070
Overview
Released
Released	July 2019	March 2025
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	Turing	Blackwell
Shader cores
Shader cores	3,072	6,144
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,815 MHz	2,512 MHz (better)
Architecture
Architecture	NVIDIA reference specifications. The photo shows PNY's stock-clock 8 GB Blower, whose cooler differs from the Founders Edition geometry below.	GB205 GPU; 48 SMs
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	–	TSMC 4nm (4N NVIDIA custom process); 31.1 billion transistors; 263 mm² die
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	Hardware RT Cores	48 fourth-generation RT Cores; 94 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI cores	Tensor Cores	192 fifth-generation Tensor Cores; 988 AI TOPS
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	NVIDIA DLSS upscaling; 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	1650 MHz base; 1815 MHz boost	2.33 GHz
Cache
Cache	–	48 MB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR7 (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit (better)	192-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	496 GB/s	672 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	15.5 Gbps GDDR6	GDDR7 at 28 Gbps
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	250 W	250 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 5.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	NVIDIA lists DisplayPort 1.4a and HDMI 2.0b, up to 4 displays and HDCP 2.2. Its feature list includes USB-C while the connector table omits it; the pictured PNY Blower specifies 3 × DisplayPort 1.4 and 1 × HDMI 2.0b without USB-C. Check the board manufacturer for its connectors.	3 × DisplayPort 2.1b (UHBR20), 1 × HDMI 2.1b; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320; DisplayPort supports 4K 144 Hz or 8K 60 Hz with DSC	4K at 480 Hz or 8K at 165 Hz with DSC
Power connector
Power connector	1 × PCIe 6-pin and 1 × PCIe 8-pin (reference)	1 × 300 W or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable, or 2 × PCIe 8-pin cables with the adapter in the box
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	650 W, based on NVIDIA's 3.2 GHz Intel Core i7 test system	650 W
Slot width
Slot width	2-slot (Founders Edition)	2-slot (Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	266.74 × 115.7 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)	242 × 112 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	Turing NVENC; no hardware AV1 encoding	1 × ninth-generation NVENC, 1 × sixth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode