Friday, January 24th 2025
New Leak Reveals NVIDIA RTX 5080 Is Slower Than RTX 4090
A set of newly leaked benchmarks has revealed the performance capabilities of NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 5080 GPU. Scheduled to launch alongside the RTX 5090 on January 30, the GPU was spotted on Geekbench under OpenCL and Vulkan benchmark tests—and based on the performance, it might not make it among the best graphics cards. The tested device was an MSI-branded RTX 5080 labeled as model MS-7E62. This setup had AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, which many consider one of the best CPUs for gaming. It also included an MSI MPG 850 Edge TI Wi-Fi motherboard and 32 GB of DDR5-6000 memory.
The benchmark results show that the RTX 5080 scored 261,836 points in Vulkan and 256,138 points in OpenCL tests. Compared to the RTX 4080, its previous version, the RTX 5080 has a 22% boost in Vulkan performance and a small 6.7% gain in OpenCL. Reddit user TruthPhoenixV found that on the Blender Open Data platform, the GPU got a median score of 9,063.77. This score is 9.4% higher than the RTX 4080 and 8.2% better than the RTX 4080 Super. Even with these improvements, the RTX 5080 might not outperform the current-gen top-tier RTX 4090. In the past, NVIDIA's 80-class GPUs have beaten the 90-class GPUs from the previous generation, but these early numbers suggest this trend might not continue for the RTX 5080.
The RTX 5080 uses NVIDIA's latest Blackwell architecture, with 10,752 CUDA cores spread across 84 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) versus the 9,728 cores in the RTX 4080. It has 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus. NVIDIA says it can deliver 1,801 TOPS in AI performance through Tensor Cores and 171 TeraFLOPS of ray tracing performance using its RT Cores.
That said, it's important to note that these benchmark results have not been fully verified so we should wait for the review embargo to lift before concluding.
Sources:
DigitalTrends, TruthPhoenixV
The benchmark results show that the RTX 5080 scored 261,836 points in Vulkan and 256,138 points in OpenCL tests. Compared to the RTX 4080, its previous version, the RTX 5080 has a 22% boost in Vulkan performance and a small 6.7% gain in OpenCL. Reddit user TruthPhoenixV found that on the Blender Open Data platform, the GPU got a median score of 9,063.77. This score is 9.4% higher than the RTX 4080 and 8.2% better than the RTX 4080 Super. Even with these improvements, the RTX 5080 might not outperform the current-gen top-tier RTX 4090. In the past, NVIDIA's 80-class GPUs have beaten the 90-class GPUs from the previous generation, but these early numbers suggest this trend might not continue for the RTX 5080.
That said, it's important to note that these benchmark results have not been fully verified so we should wait for the review embargo to lift before concluding.
176 Comments on New Leak Reveals NVIDIA RTX 5080 Is Slower Than RTX 4090
Who knows, maybe I will get one.There is nothing else to buy.
Tell the other guys to hurry up and make something good lol.
I'll pass on this whole fake new gen, and wait for RTX 6070/6080 in time to take down next-gen consoles (PS6/Xbox5) in 2-3 years, which will actually be on a new lithography by then.
your hate for nvidia made you incoherent
Nvidia may have the fastest card, but more because AMD gave up fighting for the leadership and it gains growth mainly from DLSS, FG. While the performance increase might be acceptable for the 5090, it will probably be embarrassing for the 5080, it's a 4080 facelift, not a new series, there's nothing here that's worth $1000 outside of the MFG and those are FE MSRP prices anyway, there should be a refreshed XX80 worth, say $800. PC gamers may have cards in stores (that to be seen), but the prices are like from the cryptocurrency madness (2k$ for 5090 and AIB prices :banghead:).tpucdn.com/review/amd-radeon-rx-7900-xtx/images/relative-performance_3840-2160.png
There is/was but not in RT.
If you didn't play just a few games that were worth turning on RT, then the 7900 were quite attractive cards. Especially since the launch price of the RTX 4080 is a bad joke. And even so, the performance of the RTX 4080 in 4K with RT without DLSS, FG was pathetic - 30 frames for $1200, so the 7900 for $1000 and 20 frames is not better.
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However, this shows the hopelessness of the situation and the completely inadequate price of the cards or their performance to price (71% increase over the RTX 3080).AMD ? Home PC GPU ? For Gaming ? AI, AI, AI...
Not buying anything this go around.
For god's sake, this has been obvious for the past year, to anyone with a functioning brain and a basic understanding of the computer hardware industry.
Nvidia wants to be allowed to sell the RTX 5080 in China, therefore it will have similar or lower performance than the RTX 4090D.
The RTX 5080 was leaked about half a year ago as having 10752 CUDA cores, on effectively the same manufacturing node as Lovelace, so it couldn't realistically be much faster than the RTX 4080 Super (10240 CUDA cores - so the 5080 should be faster, but with only 5% more cores and a node that's only about 10% better, it will still be way behind the 4090).
Anyone who thought the RTX 5080 could have higher performance than an RTX 4090, is an idiot.
Idiots being wrong isn't really news, but I suppose it's an opportunity to gloat "I told you so".
I TOLD YOU SO!!!
Inevitable with how quickly the release cycle has gotten, it's like the yearly Madden or Fifa there's only so much change that can be squeezed in to a small lead up time.