NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Release years: 2022, 2025. MSRP range: $999 · $1,599. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Blackwell

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

16 GB VRAM360W TDP$999 MSRP2025

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ada Lovelace

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

24 GB VRAM450W TDP$1,599 MSRP2022

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

Specs side-by-side

Spec	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
vram gb	16	24
vram type	GDDR7	GDDR6X
tdp w	360	450
cuda cores	10752	16384

Synthetic benchmarks

Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

Benchmark	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
3DMark Fire Strike	79,045 points	—
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme	39,871 points	—
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra	21,262 points	—
3DMark Port Royal	24,924 points	25,820 points
3DMark Speed Way	9,039 points	10,527 points
3DMark Steel Nomad	8,938 points	9,225 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Light	—	11,287 points
3DMark Time Spy	32,642 points	39,397 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme	16,244 points	20,192 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (Graphics)	—	19,000 pts
3DMark Time Spy GPU	—	35,200 pts
3DMark Time Spy Graphics	32,701 points	—

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.