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.
197 Comments on New Leak Reveals NVIDIA RTX 5080 Is Slower Than RTX 4090
YOU are FAKE NEWS.
Only crazy people that buy a new card every year care about year on year performance, seems like a stupid point to make, it's a nice upgrade with bad pricing if you're stuck on 1000, 2000 or 3000 series
Another 2 more years wasted....
The thing is that most of the crowd are forgetting or neglecting the fact that nVidia uses this very same architecture of Cuda/Tensor cores for the professional line of GPUs and compute systems for AI and Machine Learning applications. Those don’t need (or care for) more raster gaming performance.
They need desperately higher AI/ML capabilities.
It’s a unified architecture that they found a way to use the AI/ML utilities with DLSS and frame generation to be able to be useful for good old gaming.
Gamers still think that nVidia is all about gaming… but the clouds are thick and pink.
Soon for AMD to (try to) follow with UDNA.
The big money is on the industry not on $1000~2000 gaming GPUs. You don’t get to be a 3.4 Trillion company (2nd on the planet after Apple) by selling GPUs to gamers.
It’s a joke to even think about it.
I am sure that during the process of backporting from TSMC 3 nm to the old 5nm process the parts lost quite a bit of shaders, and performance.If AMD and Nvidia follow this (stupid) logic, it means that the whole universe revolves around "the industry", and everything else - all other chips (CPUs, consoles, phones, refrigerators, washing machines, etc.) must die.
:kookoo:
But i do feel that nvidia are trying to force ppl into buying more expensive gpus, now that they can't get any meaningful performance upgrade with the same tier on a new gen.
This would imply that in 2027 we get a 5080 like chip shrinked to 290mm² 192 bit bus as the 6070 Ti.
But what about the 5090, that's here now. you don't have to wait 2 years. and there is not going to be a massive shrink.
we're probably looking at 24576 Cuda 576mm² 6090 already maxed out. so that's 4 years wasted until they get a more advanced node and the 1.6X shrink.
Also
Now, take a long look at the near-performance parity of the 4090 versus the 5090 at 1080p, versus the 30-40% gap at 4K.
Again: time to take a breather... you haven't got a clue what you're looking at clearly.
www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-founders-edition/34.html
5090 is 10% faster at 1080p than a 4090 not EQUAL Okay moving on
5090 is 17% faster at 1440p than a 4090 not EQUAL. Okay moving on
5090 is 26% faster at 4k than a 4090 not EQUAL. Thats all the resolutions they tested. Hope you're following so far
If you saying that say 10% at 1080p is parity well 1) that's wrong because thats not what parity means 2) realistically its a meaningless comparison between different resolutions its just another data point. most gamers play at native resolutions high refresh. just because this card scales better at 4k doesn't mean anyone playing at 1440p or below will or should not buy it.
Now explain without using big boy words what exactly are you trying to convince me of?
The original statement was, I believe, the 5080 will be as fast as a 4090. Then we start pulling in weird numbers from TPU's reviews to make that point, and I'm saying you're wrong.
Do you think we live under a rock?
Gaming/multimedia consoles, and all kinds of devices and you mention vs a chip designer. A chip designer with top tier premium architecture for AI/ML in the dawn of the AI era. Yeah... super successful example.
You compare things as different as night and day. Your choices couldn't be more poorer. I dont expect you to find anything else though...
Keep defending nVidia by distorting the facts.
AMD already is on that train even before Ryzen architecture when Xilinx was acquired and will be on GPUs (again) with UDNA.
We are talking about chip designers here and you are bringing devices into the conversation.
Cant say about the universe but on this little Earth almost everything revolves around profit power and control and for an AI chip designer the profits are in the industry and pros.
You can try to bring Apple, which is No1 company, into this but still it will be night and day.
Lets all think how many gaming users there are that need a gaming GPU and how many people need a phone, a wearable, a PC in general.
I own 1 GPU but for 4 Apple devices and I also subscribed for services.
nVidia's market cap, revenue and earnings grow x5~10 the last couple of years because they sell x5~10 more GPUs to gamers... (my turn... :kookoo: )
Good one! Very good laughs...
Apple grows more steadily over the years because they sell more devices on users year by year? Nope.... they found another way. Feel free to search it...
Yes i pulled my crystal ball and wrote exactly that. I should have added that i meant it in "relative performance"
Basically on Monday or whenever TPU posts their review, we will look here >>>>www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-5080.c4217
And i would expect to see the relative performance chart showing 5080 and 4090 at parity. TBD
On TPU's testing, we will see the 5090 extend its lead as the bench suite gets newer titles over time.