Introduction

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 SUPRIM SOC is the company's most premium custom design rendition of the GeForce RTX 5080, a new enthusiast-segment GPU from NVIDIA powered by the GeForce Blackwell graphics architecture. NVIDIA designs its first party Founders Edition cards to set standards in industrial design for its board partners to follow. MSI is up to the challenge with its SUPRIM line of graphics cards that don't just look like pieces of jewellery, but are also designed to be the fastest custom design graphics cards out of the box. These are cards shouldn't just win beauty contests, ideally paired with the company's MEG Godlike or MEG Ace motherboards, but are also designed to go under sub-ambient evaporators to drive record-breaking overclocks. The Suprim SOC has the company's heaviest cooling solution, and the PCB has the strongest VRM solution with the most premium components.



The new GeForce RTX 5080 is an enthusiast-segment GPU designed for 4K Ultra HD gaming with maxed out settings and ray tracing enabled. It is based on the new GB203 silicon, which it maxes out, enabling all 84 SM present. This yields 10,752 CUDA cores, 336 Tensor cores, 84 RT cores, 336 TMUs, and 112 ROPs. The memory interface is 256-bit GDDR7, which NVIDIA uses to drive 16 GB of 30 Gbps GDDR7 memory, yielding 960 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a 34% increase over the previous generation RTX 4080. Of course there's a lot more to the RTX 5080 than its numbers, it's the new Blackwell graphics architecture driving it.

The GeForce Blackwell graphics architecture introduces Neural Rendering, a new concept in consumer 3D graphics where the GPU leverages generative AI to create elements of a 3D scene combined with traditional raster 3D. Similar to RTX, which blends ray-traced and rasterized objects, this technology has immense potential for creating photorealistic images and videos. NVIDIA partnered with Microsoft to standardize it at the API level, enabling 3D applications to access the GPU's Tensor cores directly. Blackwell GPUs can handle AI acceleration and graphics rendering simultaneously, thanks to a new hardware scheduler called the AI Management Processor (AMP).

The new Blackwell streaming multiprocessor enables concurrent FP32 and INT32 execution on all CUDA cores (Ada had INT32 on only half). It supports shader execution reordering for neural shaders. The 5th-gen Tensor core introduces FP4 data format for higher throughput, while the 4th-gen RT core includes hardware for Mega Geometry, enabling exponentially higher polygon counts in ray-traced objects. Blackwell debuts DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation (MFG). DLSS 4 uses a Transformer-based AI model, enhancing super resolution, ray reconstruction, and frame generation for superior image quality. MFG allows up to four AI-generated frames after one rendered frame, more than quadrupling frame rates. The new Display Engine supports DisplayPort 2.1b with UHBR20, enabling high refresh rates at up to 8K resolution—making 8K 60 Hz gaming possible with DLSS 4 MFG.

The MSI RTX 5080 SUPRIM SOC boasts an awe-inspiring design with premium materials and precision machining. It debuts MSI's Hyper Frozr SUPRIM cooling solution, featuring a sturdy frame and a large vapor chamber baseplate that pulls heat from the GPU and memory chips. Heat is transferred through seven flattened heat pipes and dissipated by three StormForce axial fans with serrated, webbed blades for axial airflow. The card includes ARGB lighting and a 3D backplate for an industrial aesthetic. MSI has given the RTX 5080 SUPRIM SOC its highest factory overclock, going up to 2745 MHz (vs. 2617 MHz reference), while leaving the memory untouched at 30 Gbps. The company is pricing the card at $1250, a fairly stiff premium over NVIDIA's $1000 baseline price.