NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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GeForce RTX 2080 Ti compared with GeForce RTX 5090

	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 2080 Ti	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 5090
Overview
Released
Released	September 2018	January 2025
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	Turing	Blackwell
Shader cores
Shader cores	4,352	21,760
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,545 MHz or 1,635 MHz	2,407 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	Main figures describe NVIDIA's reference specification; the Founders Edition has a factory overclock and higher power rating. The photo shows PNY's stock-clock 11 GB Blower, whose cooler differs from the Founders Edition geometry below. NVIDIA's original announcement named 20 September availability; its 27 September partner roundup confirms cards available by that date. The release month retains this shipment-date uncertainty.	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-accelerated ray tracing	170 fourth-generation RT Cores; 318 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI 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	1350 MHz for reference and Founders Edition; boost is 1545 MHz reference or 1635 MHz Founders Edition	2.01 GHz
Cache
Cache	–	96 MB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	11 GB GDDR6	32 GB GDDR7 (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	352-bit	512-bit (better)
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	616 GB/s	1,792 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	14 Gbps GDDR6; 616 GB/s bandwidth	GDDR7 at 28 Gbps
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	250 W or 260 W	575 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 5.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	Founders Edition and PNY Blower have 3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.0b and 1 × USB-C VirtualLink; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.2	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	2 × PCIe 8-pin (reference and Founders Edition)	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	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); NVIDIA does not specify reference-card geometry in its table	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