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We benchmark these GPUs and compare AI performance (deep learning training; FP16, FP32, PyTorch, TensorFlow), 3d rendering, Cryo-EM performance in the most popular apps (Octane, VRay, Redshift, Blender, Luxmark, Unreal Engine, Relion Cryo-EM).

Our benchmarks will help you decide which GPU (NVIDIA RTX 4090/4080, H100 Hopper, H200, A100, RTX 6000 Ada, A6000, A5000, or RTX 6000 ADA Lovelace) is the best GPU for your needs. We provide an in-depth analysis of the AI performance of each graphic card's performance so you can make the most informed decision possible. We offer deep learning and 3d rendering benchmarks that will help you get the most out of your hardware.


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Benchmarks

Deep Learning AI GPU Benchmarks 2025 [Updated]

Resnet50 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
488.56
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1720
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1597.66
NVIDIA RTX 4090
5934
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Resnet50 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
741.26
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
2465.23
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Resnet50 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
302.88
NVIDIA RTX 4090
927
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1075.19
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1715
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Resnet50 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
330.72
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1132.16
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Resnet152 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
213.35
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
681.19
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Resnet152 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
290.23
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
977.06
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Resnet152 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Resnet152 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Inception V3 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
293.76
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1031
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Inception V3 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
404.99
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1467.97
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Inception V3 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
198.81
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
739.49
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Inception V3 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
215.54
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
772.66
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Inception V4 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
155.84
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
564.62
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Inception V4 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
220.7
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
790.82
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Inception V4 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Inception V4 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

VGG16 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
264.14
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
578.14
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

VGG16 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
324.85
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
926.34
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

VGG16 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
178.65
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
452.2
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

VGG16 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
194.89
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
528.33
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Googlenet (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Googlenet (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

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3D, GPU Rendering Benchmarks 2025 [Updated]

V-Ray

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
345
NVIDIA RTX 4090
5556
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Octane

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
368
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1445
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Redshift

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
8.38
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1.16
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Blender

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
3163.85
NVIDIA RTX 4090
12123.96
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Luxmark

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
33195
NVIDIA RTX 4090
158815
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Unreal Engine

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
30.1
NVIDIA RTX 4090
92.1
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

RELION Cryo-EM Benchmarks 2025 [Updated]

Total run time

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
105.2
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
53.2
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

BERT LARGE Training, Inference Benchmark 2025 [Updated]

Training Time (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Performance (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Training Time (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Performance (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

LLM Inference Benchmark 2025 [Updated]

Llama3.1 70B

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
10
2 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
20.3
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
20

Llama3.1 405B

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
2 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

OpenAI gpt-oss-20b (FP4)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

OpenAI gpt-oss-120b (FP4)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a

Technical Specifications

Board Design

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA RTX 4090
Length 267 mm 336 mm
Outputs 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Power Connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 16-pin
Slot width Dual-slot Triple-slot
TDP 250 W 450 W

Clock Speeds

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA RTX 4090
Boost Clock 1545 MHz 2520 MHz
GPU Clock 1350 MHz 2235 MHz
Memory Clock 14000 MHz 21200 MHz

Graphics Card

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA RTX 4090
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Generation GeForce 20 GeForce 40

Graphics Features

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA RTX 4090
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.5 6.7
CUDA 7.5 8.9

Graphics Processor

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA RTX 4090
Architecture Turing Ada Lovelace
Die Size 754 mm2 608 mm2
GPU Name TU102-300A-K1-A1 AD102-300-A1
Process Size 12 nm 5 nm
Transistors 18600 million 76300 million

Memory

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA RTX 4090
Bandwidth 616 GB/s 1018 GB/s
Memory Bus 352 bit 384 bit
Memory Size 11 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X

Render Config

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA RTX 4090
ROPs 88 192
RT Cores 68 128
Shading Units/ CUDA Cores 4352 16384
TMUs 272 512
Tensor Cores 544 512

Theoretical Performance

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA RTX 4090
FP16 (half) performance 26.9 TFLOPS 82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) performance 13.45 TFLOPS 82.58 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 420.2 GFLOPS 1290 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate 136 GPixel/s 483.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 420.2 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Price

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA RTX 4090
MSRP 1199 $ 1599 $
Release Date Sep 20th, 2018 Oct 12th, 2022

Test bench configuration

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA RTX 4090
Hardware BIZON G3000 More details BIZON X5500 More details
Software Deep learning:
Nvidia Driver: 440
CUDA: 10.1
TensorFlow: 1.14
Batch size: 64
3D Rendering:
Nvidia Driver: 442.19
VRay Benchmark: 4.10.3
Octane Benchmark: 4.00
Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.x
Blender: 2.81
Luxmark: 3.1
3D Rendering:
Nvidia Driver:
VRay Benchmark:
Octane Benchmark:
Redshift Benchmark:
Blender:
Luxmark:

Recommended hardware

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA RTX 4090
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