GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 5080
NVIDIA · Released Oct 12, 2022
DiscontinuedGeForce RTX 4090
- SlotPCIe 4.0 x16
- VRAM
- 24GB
- FP32 Compute
- 82.6TFLOPS
- Memory Bandwidth
- 1,008GB/s
- Memory Bus
- 384bit
- Board Power
- 450W
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GeForce RTX 4090 has about a 32% higher spec score than GeForce RTX 5080 (hardware on paper; game speed varies by maker) and launched at $600 more.
$1,599
Launch MSRP
$999(better)
49.2(better)
Spec score
37.2
24GB(better)
VRAM
16GB
82.6TFLOPS(better)
FP32 Compute
56.3TFLOPS
1,008GB/s(better)
Memory Bandwidth
960GB/s
384bit(better)
Memory Bus
256bit
450W
Board Power
360W(better)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Slot
PCIe 5.0 x16
Yes
AV1 encodingSame
Yes
No
4:2:2 10-bit HEVC decoding
Yes
Up to ~32B-parameter models
Local AI models (4-bit)
Up to ~14B-parameter models
Oct 12, 2022
Released
Jan 30, 2025