GeForce FX 5900 Ultra vs RTX 2080 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	111	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	18.10	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	TU104B	NV35
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	29 January 2019 (5 years ago)	23 October 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$499

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 cores	2944	no data
Core clock speed	1380 MHz	450 MHz
Boost clock speed	1590 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	13,600 million	135 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	59 Watt
Texture fill rate	292.6	3.600
Floating-point processing power	9.362 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	4
TMUs	184	8
Tensor Cores	368	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	46	no data

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).

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	no data	218 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x Molex

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 type	GDDR6	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	425 MHz
Memory bandwidth	384.0 GB/s	27.2 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

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 Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	9.0a
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	7.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	29 January 2019	23 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	12 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	59 Watt

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