nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

2944

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

$699 Sep 2018 View Details

nvidia

Brand

16GB GDDR7

Memory

10752

Cores

960 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

$999 Jan 2025 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

8GB GDDR6 215W $699 Sep 2018

GeForce RTX 2080

$699 • Sep 2018

GeForce RTX 5080

$999 • Jan 2025

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

16GB GDDR7 360W $999 Jan 2025

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
Memory Size	8 GB	16 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR7
TDP	215 W	360 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1710 MHz	2617 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	448 GB/s	960 GB/s
Process Size	12nm	5nm
Architecture	Turing	Blackwell 2.0
Shading Units	2944	10752
RT Cores	46	84
TMUs	184	336
ROPs	64	112
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1750 MHz	1875 MHz
Pixel Rate	109.4 GPixel/s	293.1 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	448 GTexel/s	879.3 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	10.07 GFLOPS	56.28 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	64.00 MB
Die Size	545 mm²	378 mm²
Transistors	13600 Million	45600 Million
Required PSU	550 W	750 W
Power Connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 16-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 5.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

10843

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

36148 (+233%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

118637

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

297747 (+151%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

128.3 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

410.9 FPS (+220%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

18747

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

36508 (+95%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Game Benchmarks Comparison (9 benchmarks)

Split Fiction

8.7 2025 • Action, Adventure • Hazelight Studios

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+138%)

AVG 259 FPS

MIN 226 FPS

GeForce RTX 2080

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+153%)

AVG 195 FPS

MIN 175 FPS

GeForce RTX 2080

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+184%)

AVG 122 FPS

MIN 109 FPS

GeForce RTX 2080

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

Winner

Loser

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

7.9 2025 • Action, Adventure • Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080 (+246%)

AVG 159 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080

AVG 33 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080 (+352%)

AVG 149 FPS

MIN 108 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080

AVG 10 FPS

MIN 4 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080 (+810%)

AVG 91 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 2080

AVG 17 FPS

MIN 10 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080 (+435%)

AVG 91 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 2080

AVG 11 FPS

MIN 7 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080 (+591%)

AVG 76 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 2080

AVG 2 FPS

MIN 1 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080 (+2150%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Winner

Loser

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Wins!

Based on 9 benchmarks across 2 games

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 2080

+241.1%

132

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 5080