New Nvidia RTX 5080 benchmark rumor has got me worried that the GPU won't be
a major upgrade to the RTX 4080

Date:
Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:08:18 +0000

Description:
Claimed Nvidia RTX 5080 graphics benchmarks suggest the GPU wont quite match the RTX 4090 (unlike the RTX 4080 which easily outgunned the 3090).

FULL STORY ======================================================================Purporte d Nvidia RTX 5080 Geekbench results have been shared They suggest roughly a 20% gen-on-gen uplift compared to the RTX 4080 However, the RTX 5080 appears to come up short compared to the older RTX 4090

With the RTX 5090 now reviewed and fully evaluated as an undoubtedly
powerful GPU, albeit to the point of overkill in many ways the attention of the benchmark-spilling world has turned to the RTX 5080.

Reviews of this second Blackwell GeForce GPU are imminent, and thanks to Benchleaks (via Toms Hardware ), weve caught a purported Geekbench result (be skeptical with it, as with any such spillage).

The results are for the graphics tests from Geekbench and they suggest that the RTX 5080 will hit a score of around 262,000 in Vulkan and 256,000 in OpenCL.

That would represent about a 20% generational increase (just over) in performance compared to the RTX 4080 with the Vulkan score, but less than 10% for OpenCL. As Toms notes, Blackwell Vulkan performance appears stronger than OpenCL.

As our sister site further points out, the Vulkan score here is actually
quite close to the RTX 4090, but the RTX 5080 is some way off with OpenCL, as the last-gen flagship is about 20% faster than the new graphics card.

The RTX 5090 is around 40% and 45% faster than the RTX 5080, if you were wondering how the new flagship stacks up, but again this is based on rumors. (Image credit: Nvidia) Analysis: In line with other speculation, pretty much

As always when looking at benchmarks, synthetic results arent as valuable as real-world gaming tests, and Geekbench is not the first place anyone would turn to for a metric to judge a graphics cards gaming prowess by. But nonetheless, this does give us something of a clue about where the RTX 5080 might land in terms of raw power for PC games .

And, as this hint goes, its pretty much what I expected. Pushing the OpenCL score to one side, Id say a 20% performance uplift (for rasterized, non-DLSS, non-ray tracing games) sounds about on the money, based on previous spinning from the rumor mill but obviously were still a long way from being able to draw that conclusion.

Its worth remembering that games which support DLSS 4 (and Nvidias new frame generation tech, MFG) can expect a way, way bigger frame rate boost from the RTX 5080, or indeed any of the new Blackwell desktop graphics cards. And it's equally worth noting that while the RTX 4080 was an undoubted major leap in performance for an xx80-class graphics card, the price that Nvidia stuck on
it was shocking at the time, and meant we werent a fan in our review (and
this GPU did not fly off the shelves by any means, back in the day).

Were now more acclimatized to Nvidias weighty pricing at the higher-end, and of course, with the RTX 5080, its MSRP has dropped back to $999 in the US (compared to $1,199 for the RTX 4080). So thats something of a win for consumers, albeit a grand is still an eye-watering sum to be parting with for a desktop GPU.

Nvidias RTX 5080 arrives on January 30, alongside the RTX 5090, with the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti following in February at some point. If youre planning on buying the GPU next week, weve got a list of the best places to keep an eye
on for stock of the RTX 5080 . However, this graphics card is rumored to be short on stock , and so could sell out very quickly you might need a fair
bit of good fortune to land your next-gen GPU. You might also like Nvidia abandons the problematic 12VHPWR RTX 4080 power connector with a much longer one for the RTX 5080 FE Rumored prices for third-party RTX 5080 graphics
cards soar above Nvidias MSRP, and Im worried entry-level models will sell
out in a flash Nvidia RTX 5050 was missing in action at CES 2025 but the budget GPU might just have been spotted in a surprising laptop



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/new-nvidia-rtx-5080-benchmark-rumor-ha s-got-me-worried-that-the-gpu-wont-be-a-major-upgrade-to-the-rtx-4080


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