Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh vs GeForce RTX 2080

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking64not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation27.55no data
Power efficiency15.81no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU104TU104B
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date20 September 2018 (6 years ago)8 June 2020 (4 years 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 cores29443072
Core clock speed1515 MHz1035 MHz
Boost clock speed1710 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)215 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate314.6296.6
Floating-point processing power10.07 TFLOPS9.492 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs184192
Tensor Cores368384
Ray Tracing Cores4648

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 3.0 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 speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s448.0 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-CNo outputs
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 Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.140
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 September 2018 8 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 215 Watt 110 Watt

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 95.5% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2080 is a desktop card while Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
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