NVIDIA · Blackwell
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
32 GB VRAM575W TDP$1,999 MSRP2025
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080. All released in 2025. MSRP range: $1,999 · $999. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
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NVIDIA · Blackwell
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
16 GB VRAM360W TDP$999 MSRP2025
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*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Last updated 2026-05-27. Price and availability subject to change.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 32 | 16 |
| vram type | GDDR7 | GDDR7 |
| tdp w | 575 | 360 |
| cuda cores | 21760 | 10752 |
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 5090 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Port Royal | 36,667 points | — |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 14,444 points | 8,980 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad (4K) | 14,133 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 32,500 pts | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy Graphics | — | 32,701 points |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,412 pts | 1,407 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 38,935 pts | 35,697 pts |
| Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy | 2 rank | 1 rank |
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.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
- Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct: 5841.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B FP8: 420.0 tok/s
- Llama 2 7B: 263.6 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
- gpt-oss:20b: 128.0 tok/s
- llama3.2-vision: 120.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B Instruct: 103.0 tok/s