New Leak Reveals NVIDIA RTX 5080 Is Slower Than RTX 4090

[Nomad76]

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.

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[FamousFighter]

I hope it can at least match the 4090 at the time of release.

 

[ZoneDymo]

I mean yeah? obviously it was going to be

 

[rv8000]

As soon as we got wind of spec’s it was obvious that was going to be the case. Gotta leave room for the 5080s/5080ti for $1499msrp ($1699 starting street price).

The whole lineup will see minimal improvements, and price v. performance won’t move. Not really much purchasing incentive if you ask me, very few games need more than 4070s class performance for the large majority of consumers.

 

[ZoneDymo]

As soon as we got wind of spec’s it was obvious that was going to be the case. Gotta leave room for the 5080s/5080ti for $1499msrp ($1699 starting street price).

The whole lineup will see minimal improvements, and price v. performance won’t move. Not really much purchasing incentive if you ask me, very few games need more than 4070s class performance for the large majority of consumers.

30% more cuda cores, 30% more power consumption, 30% more performance.
Its effectively the same generation, which is why they are leaning so heavily on DLSS4 / framegen to pretend they did anything at all.....

 

[N/A]

As soon as we got wind of spec’s it was obvious that was going to be the case. Gotta leave room for the 5080s/5080ti for $1499msrp ($1699 starting street price).

The whole lineup will see minimal improvements, and price v. performance won’t move. Not really much purchasing incentive if you ask me, very few games need more than 4070s class performance for the large majority of consumers.

Clearly this is not going to be the case. 50 series is DOA. But there is not going to be an even more cut down 5090. Nvidia wants to sell 5090 at astronomical prices. The rest is a second wave of super refreshes and keep selling that.

 

[JustBenching]

Color me surprised

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

I said it a week ago and I'll say it again: This generation is a software update

 

[rv8000]

Clearly this is not going to be the case. 50 series is DOA. But there is not going to be an even more cut down 5090. Nvidia wants to sell 5090 at astronomical prices. The rest is a second wave of super refreshes and keep selling that.

There will absolutely be some kind of 5080s card that ends up between the two (far closer to the vanilla 5080). So yea, thats gonna happen, if it’s just a super refresh or ends up with a TI label we wont know for sure. There’s a crater between the 5080 and 5090 that could definitely see larger vram buffer and potential memory bus increase.

 

[evernessince]

I mean yeah? obviously it was going to be

A lot of non-technical people fell for the 5070 faster than a 4090 claim unfortunately.

 

[GhostRyder]

Yea not surprising, with these two top end SKU's they are more like RTX 4090ti and RTX 4080ti instead of true replacements. I mean we know the performance area of the RTX 5090 and I doubted the RTX 5080 was gonna match the 4090 after seeing that.

 

[Hxx]

I still think the 5080 would match the 4090 performance . In apps/games where the 4090s wider memory bus and added memory play a greater role those I would expect a 4090 to win but otherwise I expect a 5080 to match or surpass it . We shall see how this plays out next week

 

[valentyn0]

I still think the 5080 would match the 4090 performance . In apps/games where the 4090s wider memory bus and added memory play a greater role those I would expect a 4090 to win but otherwise I expect a 5080 to match or surpass it . We shall see how this plays out next week

Nah, that's just pure copium.

 

[Macro Device]

the 5080 would match the 4090 performance

Not even remotely the case. 5090 @ 170 SMs doesn't beat 4090 by 50% in a single game. 5080 @ 84 SMs would need astronomical core clock to even become close to 4090. It's going to be 20% faster than a plain 4080 in the most 5080-favouring scenarios with an average advantage hovering around 10%. Full stop.

 

[gridracedriver]

Leak?
Nvidia said +10% from 4080, it's certainly less than 4090.

 

[Raffles]

I can't believe anyone thought otherwise. You only need to take one look at the specs to realise it's not matching or beating a 4090.

Even the 5090 with a 600w TDP is only 35% faster than a 4090, and the 5080 is half a 5090.

Tbh I'll be surprised if it even comes close to a 4090.

 

[azrael]

I've been casually toying with the idea of selling my unopened and unused RTX4080, but it seems like throwing money out the window for the expected performance gains.

 

[chrcoluk]

Wow, I am so surprised at this.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Clearly this is not going to be the case. 50 series is DOA. But there is not going to be an even more cut down 5090. Nvidia wants to sell 5090 at astronomical prices. The rest is a second wave of super refreshes and keep selling that.

- Yeah with a 750mm2 die, NV is undoubtedly racking up plenty of dies that don't even make the cut to be a 5090.

I suspect, however, that those chips will get sold as some 5090D variant for China at astronomical prices before they're sold to gamers.

 

[Sir Beregond]

Not surprising at all. Given a meager +5% increase in shaders over the 4080 Super, and an approximately 9-10% increase in power (320W to 350W), some faster VRAM, and what ever minor architectural changes, etc. I think 10% better was best you could hope for.

 

[Nanochip]

The lack of competent Radeon competition is strong in these Blackwell prices/performance improvements.

until/unless AMD competes in the high end, this is what to expect. Higher prices, lesser performance uplifts (vs the predecessor).

 

[Outback Bronze]

Color me surprised

What colour? Green lmao : )

 

[remekra]

Since 5070 = 4090 but 5080 < 4090 then 5080 < 5070? And I thought AMD had a strange naming change but ok.

 

[HisDivineOrder]

So the 5080 really is just a 4080 Super Duper with Updated Framegen with no price increase.

Nvidia swears they can't add more raster because it's too hard, but not adding any raster improvement per watt is pretty silly because it lays bare the whole con. They're updating the AI hardware, not the graphics engine, and they're desperate to convince everyone that they had to do it. They couldn't be expected to improve raster meaningfully. It was just impossible.

They could. They just didn't and they didn't because they're an AI company now and not a graphics company.

 

[Crackong]

10752 is worst than 16384