RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking54not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation32.45no data
Power efficiency14.11no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU104AD103
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date23 July 2019 (5 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores30729728
Core clock speed1650 MHz1425 MHz
Boost clock speed1815 MHz2115 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate348.5643.0
Floating-point processing power11.15 TFLOPS41.15 TFLOPS
ROPs64112
TMUs192304
Tensor Cores384304
Ray Tracing Cores4876

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1937 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth495.9 GB/s576.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 July 2019 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 120 Watt

RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 140% more advanced lithography process, and 108.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2080 Super and RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2080 Super is a desktop card while RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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