GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 5090 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3080

GeForce RTX 5090

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Blackwell 2.0

GPU code name

Ampere GA102

GB202

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2020

2025 (recently)

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

1710 MHz

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

1450 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

0 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8704

20480

Power consumption (TDP)

320 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

465.1

1,613

Memory type

GDDR6X

GDDR7

Maximum RAM amount

10 GB

28 GB

Memory bus width

320 Bit

448 Bit

Memory clock speed

19000 MHz

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

760.3 GB/s

280.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.5

9.1

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2

1.3