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
Anyways, fuck this shit. There is absolutely ZERO PC game worth investing 1500€ (real price) for a graphics card at the moment. ZERO.
I challenge anyone that can say otherwise.
My 680s were lightning models in sli... which was a pain cuz my motherboard had barely enough room to accommodate... upgraded cuz 2GB of vram started running out of steam....
Overclocked like fire too. Then the GTX 970 launched a year later and 290X aged better than that one too even if you ignore the whole 3.5GB fiasco.
I sometimes wonder how things would have been had AMD not been scrapping for pennies at that time. They kept dragging GCN, then Raja decided to come in and make a big deal about Vega which was still pretty much GCN. So they basically dragged GCN from 2011 all the way till 2019 with VII's launch. It shows both how good an arch GCN was, and how broke AMD was to not have a new arch for almost a decade.
And yes, 5070ti seems like the best deal among the lineup at present. Sort of 4080S like performance for 750 is what I expect, which is great. But wait..isn't there something called 9070XT launching with slightly lower performance expectations? I guess it should slot right in between the 5070TI and 5070.
This is basically looking like the 4080 super frame gen edition.....
Nvidia is claiming 15% over the 4080 the 4090 is 28% faster in raster but 33% faster in RT so it would need to be a hell of a lot faster than what they are claiming
Jenson top on stage price in hand said on video. ( You check MLID youtube he literally showed the video of him saying this price)
Bottom Nvidia's Actual price on their website for MSRP for the FE card
Rest of the cards in other stores $1,350.
For some reason the 1080ti FE and MSRP were identical....
But being this slow means this generation is like an Intel refresh.Sadly the 5070Ti won't have a FE, meaning there will be no cards at 750$.
Looking at TPU's own Relative Performance data from GTX 980 onwards:-
GTX 980 was 11% faster than the GTX 780TI
GTX 1080 was 31% faster than the GTX 980TI
RTX 2080 was 9% faster than the GTX 1080TI
RTX 3080 was 36% faster than the RTX 2080TI
RTX 4080 was 30% faster than the RTX 3090
Even the much maligned Turing based x80 was faster than the previous flagship and that generation was considered a colossal disappointment, so what does that make Blackwell lol.