RTX 5000 Ada Generation vs GeForce RTX 4080 Ti

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated16
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.10
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD102AD102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date2023 (1 year ago)9 August 2023 (1 year ago)

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 cores1408012800
Core clock speed2340 MHz1155 MHz
Boost clock speed2610 MHz2550 MHz
Number of transistors76,300 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)400 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate1,1481,020
Floating-point processing power73.5 TFLOPS65.28 TFLOPS
ROPs144176
TMUs440400
Tensor Cores440400
Ray Tracing Cores110100

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 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length336 mm267 mm
Width3-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB32 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1325 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth678.4 GB/s576.0 GB/s

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 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a4x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 32 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 400 Watt 250 Watt

RTX 5000 Ada Generation has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 60% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4080 Ti and RTX 5000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4080 Ti is a desktop card while RTX 5000 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti
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