NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition

[Cadasiso]

Huge OC gains, eager to see what it looks like undervolted for even more power efficiency and for better OC, I'd also love to see how it performs in 8K with memory OC just for the silly sake of it

 

[mxthunder]

This is the also the FIRST x80 generation ever where the new generation x80 card failed to dethrone the previous flagship (x80TI/x90).

GTX 980 was 11% faster than the GTX 780TI
GTX 1080 was 31% faster than the GTX 980TI
GTX 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
RTX 5080 is 11.4% slower than the RTX 4090

Truly pathetic NVIDIA.

I agree with you, but at launch, I think the 980 was only more like 5-7% faster than 780Ti, and 2080 was even less than 9% faster than 1080Ti, although looking back at TPU reviews, your numbers are about right.
The newer arch. always matures and the numbers get better over time, but there is no way in heck the 5080 will overtake the 4090 by driver updates.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

I think they were camping for the 5090.

Well, I am sure there are scalpers trying to snag the RTX5080 Stock there too, but who knows, urgh.

 

[Roph]

There are no bad cards, only bad prices, this just isn't worth a grand.

 

[rv8000]

I do suspect this card was originally the 5070, there's such a big gap between this 5080 and the 5090 they could have put an even more cut down 5090 to make a true 5080. They probably heard AMD scrap the high end card and pulled the trigger on that plan. Now what are they going to do with the chips that fail to make the 5090? 5080TI?

Probably some sort of professional/data center card imo, massive margins even on a cut down/partially functioning 5090.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

So basically an 5070 Vanilla at outrageous cost.
Nice to them.
Such a waste of a gen.

nGreedia shifted the SKU's up with the RTX4000 and now, they have done the same with the RTX5000. The RTX5070 is going to be such a let down to for so many, they will see the xx70, but it it won't be one.

 

[john_]

Now starts the marketing. Nvidia is selling features, not performance. They have performance enough to be ahead of their competitors. Competitors. Well, not exactly. AMD that decided to avoid making big chips for games that they wouldn't be able to sell anyway and Intel that is at least 6-10 years away from being a threat to Nvidia in the hi end.

 

[GhostRyder]

There was competition, but this happened:

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And it will continue happening.

Personally, i dont blame AMD for cutting back.

100% this. I grow tired of the people saying they want competition but will only buy Nvidia regardless. There is always an excuse no matter what generation it is and this is the result. If people actually voted with their wallets at each price point instead of just buying Nvidia regardless, then we would see actual competition.

As for this card, while it is a disappointment overall due to the fact its performance is below the previous flagship (Which we already knew), this card is at least at MSRP priced below the previous XX80 card which I guess is something (Though I doubt cards will be available for long at this MSRP). Guarantee we will be hearing about a RTX 5080 ti at ~1500 price point in the next year or two.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Now starts the marketing. Nvidia is selling features, not performance. They have performance enough to be ahead of their competitors. Competitors. Well, not exactly. AMD that decided to avoid making big chips for games that they wouldn't be able to sell anyway and Intel that is at least 6-10 years away from being a threat to Nvidia in the hi end.

Well, Multi-Frame Generation, for now, hardly justifies the price premium. Maybe if they iron out the kinks and it becomes a better story, like how DLSS 1.0 evolved to DLSS 4.0

100% this. I grow tired of the people saying they want competition but will only buy Nvidia regardless. There is always an excuse no matter what generation it is and this is the result. If people actually voted with their wallets at each price point instead of just buying Nvidia regardless, then we would see actual competition.

As for this card, while it is a disappointment overall due to the fact its performance is below the previous flagship (Which we already knew), this card is at least at MSRP priced below the previous XX80 card which I guess is something (Though I doubt cards will be available for long at this MSRP). Guarantee we will be hearing about a RTX 5080 ti at ~1500 price point in the next year or two.

If AMD launched the 7900GRE sooner, I would have snagged one, the price/performance is great, but they released it way too late. We were to close to the new generations. Well, looks like we get screwed anyway, from both AMD & nGreedia, so, w/e.

 

[Hyderz]

This is an interesting turn of events, the 5080 is barely faster than 4080s. Now AMD has delayed its 9070xt that was in around 4070ti super and 4080 performance range, just maybe AMD can eek abit more performance and edge past the 4080s and closer to 5080 with 500-600 price range then it could be a real winner. I hope this could happen but my gut feeling it most likely won’t happen.

 

[Krit]

RTX 50 Series officially joins my RTX 40 and RTX 20 Series absurd p/p award.

RTX 20 Series expensive and weak
RTX 40 Series extremely expensive
RTX 50 Series extremely weak

AMD has a very good chance to compete with nvidia right now if they will price RX 9070 XT correctly.

 

[RGAFL]

This is a post I made in another thread on Jun 11 2024.

"The 5080 is going to be about 10-20% short of a 4090 game dependent. This is on late beta hardware. 5080's will be starting at roughly £1250 and 5090's about £1900. There is also a new DLSS version coming out but it may not be ready for launch. Keep it quiet though."

Wrong about the prices for MSRP (maybe not for the 5080 for the street prices - 5090 I was £100 off). The original launch for these was going to be late Nov 2024 (it would have been a paper launch as even now the stock is pitiful, good luck waiting another 3-6 months for the shortages to ease.)

So not much changed performance wise from what we had in Jun 2024 with beta hardware. This is the most you will get on this node and drivers. They may fix some of the performance anomalies but don't expect them to squeeze much more out with drivers.

 

[izy]

5080 needs at least 24 GB to make sense for any upgrades to happen.

 

[Prima.Vera]

I'm very sad the way the TPU GPU reviews are done nowadays.
Why did you remove the rest of the cards from the chart, even if you mentioned that, for example, you have re-tested the RTX 3080 on 2nd of December (2024-12-02: RTX 3080 10 GB) ?
Why the game charts do not contain the older cards too, but only to % charts only?
Now I have to go on other websites for reviews, since I cannot find here what I need.
Very sad.

 

[Chrispy_]

So if you don't care about MFG, then just wait for the 4080S to go on clearance.

I don't think I care for MFG. Obviously, I haven't used it yet, but when when I use regular 2x framegen, I'm getting plenty of frames already - and also thankful that only 50% of the frames are subject to framegen garbled artifacts. At 4x framegen, 75% of the frames will be garbled in places and the illusion of better framerate will be broken far more easily and far more often.

The limiting factor for framegen to be successful enough for me to leave enabled is the input lag, something that more frames isn't going to help with. Perhaps Reflex2 and the frame-warp feature can redeem that.

 

[Krit]

So - 40% better performance / $ gen on gen. That's pretty good. I remember vividly a couple of days ago people saying that "this is impossible blabla".

Sadly you are not even smoking.

 

[W1zzard]

I'm very sad the way the TPU GPU reviews are done nowadays.
Why did you remove the rest of the cards from the chart, even if you mentioned that, for example, you have re-tested the RTX 3080 on 2nd of December (2024-12-02: RTX 3080 10 GB) ?
Why the game charts do not contain the older cards too, but only to % charts only?
Now I have to go on other websites for reviews, since I cannot find here what I need.
Very sad.

It has been done like that since forever, I need to cut off at some point .. usually 125% and 75% relative performance. But good point, let me add the 3080, it's an important comparison

Graphs are rerendering now

 

[Bwaze]

Can we even notice about 15% of performance uplift?

In 4K Ray Tracing improvement over RTX 4080 Super are:

Alan Wake 2: from 33.5 to 37.3 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077: from 30.6 to 35.4 FPS

Doom Eternal: from 127.1 to 127.4 FPS

Elden Ring: from 54.4 to 54.7 FPS

F1 24: from 63.1 to 72.4 FPS

Hogwarts Legacy: from 40.3 to 45.5 FPS

Ratchet & Clank: from 57.5 to 63.5 FPS

Resident Evil 4: from 80.6 to 93.6 FPS


This ends up as 11.1 % faster on average, but a lot of games here are within margin of error...

 

[Prima.Vera]

If NVIDIA makes that same mistake, some other player will murder them eventually, like what happened with Intel and Ryzen

I am not sure. Personally, I can only buy nVidia because of my G-Sync monitor, which is NOT compatible with FreeSync...
Besides, AMD doesn't have anything good on the market either to compete with the RTX 5080, both hardware and software wise.

 

[_JP_]

Now starts the marketing. Nvidia is selling features, not performance. They have performance enough to be ahead of their competitors. Competitors. Well, not exactly. AMD that decided to avoid making big chips for games that they wouldn't be able to sell anyway and Intel that is at least 6-10 years away from being a threat to Nvidia in the hi end.

AMD could pull a rebrand, like they did in the past, of the RX7000 series but lowering their asking price a notch and just keep the RX9070XT as their top offering undercutting the 5080 in price and keeping their latest posture of "No high-end stuff".
There, competition thru price with minimal overhead for AMD.
I'm still crossing fingers that Intel will go after the 300~400€ price-range with an offering above the B580 and maybe have a full BMG-20 die to take a shot at 499€.

As for this launch, guess for now I'll just keep recommend the 40x0 gen of nVidias , any time the prices lower due to discounts, for anyone still on Turing or earlier.

 

[Prima.Vera]

It has been done like that since forever. But good point, let me add the 3080, it's an important comparison

Millions Thanks!!

 

[SilentPeace]

Doa = Dead on Arrival

That idle consumption is awful. The mechanical construction with the power connectors. I do not want to buy something which is a hassle to disassemble.

Igor has the 7800xt in the reviews.

A Radeon 6600xt and 7800xt should be included to see more clearly the slideshow effects of low end entry cards.

Thanks Nvidia - my entry amd graphic card isn't devalued. Thank jooo

Let's hope Amd has no progress so my card keep it' value.

1300 euro is a bargain in this economy. Buy it !

That's how I see it too - this is good news for all of us who weren't intending to upgrade and means our cards will now last longer. We can assume the biggest selling model the 5060 won't be much quicker than the 4060 either. Faster cards won't mean we get better games, I mean it could and should, but it usually doesn't. It just means we need to upgrade to keep playing the latest games because developers target the new level of GPU and don't optimise for the older cards as much.

 

[W1zzard]

Millions Thanks!!

Done, better? also included the 7800 XT for @_roman_ even though it's way slower than the 5080

 

[Nater]

It's essentially a 4080 with GDDR7. What I'm seeing?

 

[dir_d]

This is an interesting turn of events, the 5080 is barely faster than 4080s. Now AMD has delayed its 9070xt that was in around 4070ti super and 4080 performance range, just maybe AMD can eek abit more performance and edge past the 4080s and closer to 5080 with 500-600 price range then it could be a real winner. I hope this could happen but my gut feeling it most likely won’t happen.

no way get that out your brain hoping like that will just let you down more. The performance leaks are there just accept +-10% the leaks and hope AMD prices the thing right.