Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
NVIDIA · gpu
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
Rig B
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
NVIDIA · gpu
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
4 of 32 fields comparable
⇄ swap sidesNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders EditionNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
Bandwidth GB S
960
1,008
MSRP (USD)
999
1,599
TDP (W)
360
450
VRAM (GB)
16
24
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth GB S | 960 | 1,008 |
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | 999 | 1,599 |
| TDP (W)↓ better | 360 | 450 |
| VRAM (GB) | 16 | 24 |
| AI Tops | 1,801 | — |
| Base Clock GHZ | 2.3 | — |
| Boost Clock GHZ | 2.62 | — |
| Budget Ceiling USD | — | 2,000 |
| Compute Capability Digits | — | 89 |
| Cuda Cores | 10,752 | — |
| Displayport Count | 3 | — |
| Displayport Version | 2.1b | — |
| Hdmi Count | 1 | — |
| Hdmi Version | 2.1b | — |
| Length MM | 304 | — |
| Memory BUS Bits | 256 | — |
| Memory Speed Gbps | 30 | — |
| Pcie GEN | 5 | — |
| Production END Reported | — | 2024-10 |
| RT Core Tflops | 171 | — |
| RT Cores GEN | 4 | — |
| RTX 4090 Model | — | 4,090 |
| RTX 5090 Model | — | 5,090 |
| Slot Width | 2 | — |
| Status | — | discontinued (no longer sold new by NVIDIA) |
| Status Checked | 2026-09-24 | 2026-09-24 |
| Street Price Date | 2026-09-01 | — |
| Street Price Premium PCT US | 55 | — |
| Street Price USD US Typical | 1,550 | — |
| Tensor Cores GEN | 5 | — |
| Vram Type | GDDR7 | — |
| Width MM | 137 | — |