MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z vs Palit RTX 4080 GameRock

Comparison MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z with 32 GB GDDR7 and 21,760 cores vs Palit RTX 4080 GameRock with 16 GB GDDR6X and 9,728 cores.

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Performance Rating

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z outperforms Palit RTX 4080 GameRock by 133.15% in the overall GPU ARK performance rating

A100 A100
H200 H200
MI325X MI325X

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2
RX 7900 XTX RX 7900 XTX
MI250 MI250
Instinct MI300X Instinct MI300X

Palit RTX 4080 GameRock

20.2

Palit RTX 4080 GameRock

20.2

The MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z dramatically outperforms the Palit RTX 4080 GameRock, leading by 133% in the overall GPI performance index. For machine learning, the MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z has the edge in FP16 performance (+144%) and tensor cores (680 vs 304). For gaming, the MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z delivers 144% more FP32 throughput, and the MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z has 124% more RT cores. In performance per watt, the Palit RTX 4080 GameRock is 21% more efficient at 340W TDP vs 1000W for the MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z.

Contents:

Memory ML Performance Compute Power Architecture & Compatibility ML Software Support Clocks & Performance Power Consumption Rendering Additional

Memory

Memory Size

🔥 +100% 32 ГБ
16 GB

Memory Type

GDDR7 GDDR6X

Memory Bandwidth

🔥 1.79 TB/s
716.8 GB/s

Memory Bus Width

512 бит 256 бит

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

🔥 +144% 118.8 TFLOPS
48.74 TFLOPS

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

🔥 +144% 118.8 TFLOPS
48.74 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

🔥 +144% 1.856 TFLOPS
0.7615 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

🔥 +124% 21,760
9,728

RT Cores

🔥 +124% 170
76

Architecture & Compatibility

GPU Architecture

Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace

SM (Streaming Multiprocessor)

🔥 +124% 170
76

PCIe Version

PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16

ML Software Support

CUDA Version

🔥 12.0
8.9

CUDA Toolkit (first supported)

v12 v11

CUDA Toolkit status

Supported Supported

Clocks & Performance

Base Clock

2,017
🔥 +9% 2,205

Boost Clock

🔥 +9% 2,730
2,505

Memory Clock

🔥 +25% 1,750
1,400

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

1400 W
🔥 -50% 700 W

Power Connector

🔥 +100% 2x 16-pin
1x 16-pin

TDP/TGP

1000 W
🔥 -66% 340 W

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

🔥 +124% 680
304

ROP

🔥 +124% 170
76

L2 Cache

🔥 +50% 96 MB
64 MB

Additional

Slots

Triple-slot Quad-slot

Release Date

Jan. 6, 2026 Sept. 20, 2022

Display Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x USB Type-C
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

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