NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER compared with GeForce RTX 5090

	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 2080 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	3,072	21,760
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,815 MHz	2,407 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.	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	Hardware RT Cores	170 fourth-generation RT Cores; 318 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI cores	Tensor Cores	680 fifth-generation Tensor Cores; 3352 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	2.01 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	496 GB/s	1,792 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	15.5 Gbps GDDR6	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	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 × 600 W PCIe Gen 5 cable, or 4 × 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	1000 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)	304 × 137 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	Turing NVENC; no hardware AV1 encoding	3 × ninth-generation NVENC, 2 × sixth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode