GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 4090

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

AD102-300-A1

GP102

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 16-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2520 MHz

1670 MHz

Core clock speed

2235 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

5 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

76,300 million

11,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16384

3200

Power consumption (TDP)

450 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

1,290

334.0

Memory type

GDDR6X

GDDR5X

Maximum RAM amount

24 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

21000 MHz

11 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1,008 GB/s

528.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.9

6.1

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

6.7

Vulkan

1.3