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Clock frequency (GPU) over time

Nominal operating clock. Says nothing about work done per cycle and must never be used as a proxy for performance across architectures.

Device scope
gpu
Method
Peak clock
Plotted in
hertz

Chart

8 figures from 8 machines, spanning 2013 to 2025. The lowest clock frequency here is 928 MHz (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti, 2013) and the highest is 2520 MHz (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, 2022). That is a range of about 2.7× within one comparability group; the figures are plotted in Hz. Points use the release date of the machine the figure belongs to. The table below lists absent figures with their recorded reasons.

Data

One row per figure, in date order. Figures with no value stay in the table. The chart omits them because an unpublished figure is not a low one.

provisional A figure marked provisional is recorded but not accepted: its evidence is unsettled. It may rely on one source, an unconfirmed announcement, or a digit read from a damaged scan. The reason appears under the figure. The catalog shows the figure but never uses it in a multiplier. How records are judged.

Machine Released Figure Confidence Sources
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA Kepler (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti) November 2013 928 MHz Vendor-rated provisional
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GP104 (GeForce GTX 1080) May 2016 1733 MHz Vendor-rated
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti NVIDIA Turing (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti) September 2018 1635 MHz Vendor-rated
Sony PlayStation 5 Launch console November 2020 2.23 GHz Vendor-rated provisional
Valve Steam Deck Retail hardware February 2022 1.6 GHz Vendor-rated
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA Ada Lovelace (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090) October 2022 2520 MHz Vendor-rated
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD RDNA 3 (AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX) December 2022 2500 MHz Vendor-rated
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 NVIDIA GB202 (GeForce RTX 5090) January 2025 2407 MHz Vendor-rated

Why this chart holds one group only

Every point on a chart is implicitly compared with every other point on it. This chart uses one comparability group: one metric, one device scope, one method . There is no chart of all clock frequencies over time because they are not one quantity.

Points use the release date of the machine a figure belongs to, including figures recorded against a part. A release date applies only to a machine that shipped. What this metric measures.