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 5090 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
20 of 31 fields comparable
⇄ swap sidesNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders EditionNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
AI Tops
1,801
3,352
Bandwidth GB S
960
1,792
Base Clock GHZ
2.3
2.01
Boost Clock GHZ
2.62
2.41
Cuda Cores
10,752
21,760
Displayport Count
3
3
Hdmi Count
1
1
Length MM
304
304
Memory BUS Bits
256
512
MSRP (USD)
999
1,999
Pcie GEN
5
5
RT Core Tflops
171
318
RT Cores GEN
4
4
Slot Width
2
2
Street Price Premium PCT US
55
145
Street Price USD US Typical
1,550
4,900
TDP (W)
360
575
Tensor Cores GEN
5
5
VRAM (GB)
16
32
Width MM
137
137
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition |
|---|---|---|
| AI Tops | 1,801 | 3,352 |
| Bandwidth GB S | 960 | 1,792 |
| Base Clock GHZ | 2.3 | 2.01 |
| Boost Clock GHZ | 2.62 | 2.41 |
| Cuda Cores | 10,752 | 21,760 |
| Displayport Count | 3 | 3 |
| Hdmi Count | 1 | 1 |
| Length MM | 304 | 304 |
| Memory BUS Bits | 256 | 512 |
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | 999 | 1,999 |
| Pcie GEN | 5 | 5 |
| RT Core Tflops | 171 | 318 |
| RT Cores GEN | 4 | 4 |
| Slot Width | 2 | 2 |
| Street Price Premium PCT US | 55 | 145 |
| Street Price USD US Typical | 1,550 | 4,900 |
| TDP (W)↓ better | 360 | 575 |
| Tensor Cores GEN | 5 | 5 |
| VRAM (GB) | 16 | 32 |
| Width MM | 137 | 137 |
| Displayport Version | 2.1b | 2.1b |
| Hdmi Version | 2.1b | 2.1b |
| Memory Speed Gbps | 30 | — |
| Nvdec Count | — | 2 |
| Nvdec GEN | — | 6 |
| Nvenc Count | — | 3 |
| Nvenc GEN | — | 9 |
| Required PSU Watts | — | 1,000 |
| Status Checked | 2026-09-24 | 2026-09-24 |
| Street Price Date | 2026-09-01 | 2026-09-01 |
| Vram Type | GDDR7 | GDDR7 |