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NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPER vs NVIDIA RTX 4090 for local LLMs

Across 5 tests measured on both, the NVIDIA RTX 4090 is faster in 5 and generates a median 1.37× the tokens/s of the NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPER.

On Llama 2 7B (Q4_0, llama-bench) the NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPER generates 150 tokens/s and the NVIDIA RTX 4090 190 tokens/s (measured).

Same model, same quant, same test

ModelQuant / testRTX 4080 SUPER
tok/s
RTX 4090
tok/s
FasterSources and run details
Llama 2 7BQ4_0
llama-bench
150
Vulkan
190
Vulkan
RTX 4090 +27%llama.cpp #10879 RTX 4080 SUPER · llama.cpp #10879 RTX 4090
gpt-oss 20BMXFP4
llama-bench
187
CUDA
255
CUDA
RTX 4090 +37%llama.cpp #15396 RTX 4080 SUPER · llama.cpp #15396 RTX 4090
Llama 3.1 8B InstructQ4_K_M
LocalScore
66.6
llamafile
105
llamafile
RTX 4090 +58%LocalScore RTX 4080 SUPER · LocalScore RTX 4090
Llama 3.2 1B InstructQ4_K_M
LocalScore
194
llamafile
292
llamafile
RTX 4090 +51%LocalScore RTX 4080 SUPER · LocalScore RTX 4090
Qwen2.5 14B InstructQ4_K_M
LocalScore
44.9
llamafile
49.1
llamafile
RTX 4090 +9%LocalScore RTX 4080 SUPER · LocalScore RTX 4090

Generation speed in tokens/s, best measured backend for each chip (shown under the number). Backends can differ between the two chips; check them before drawing conclusions. Measured results only, nothing estimated.

Specs

NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPERNVIDIA RTX 4090
Memory16 GB24 GB
Memory bandwidth736 GB/s1008 GB/s

All results for the NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPER · All results for the NVIDIA RTX 4090 · More comparisons