NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

nvidia

Brand

16GB GDDR7

Memory

10752

Cores

960 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 5080

$999.99 Jan 2025 View Details

$999.99

nvidia

Brand

16GB GDDR6X

Memory

9728

Cores

716.8 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 4080

$959.00 Sep 2022 View Details

$959.00

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

16GB GDDR7 360W $999.99 Jan 2025

GeForce RTX 5080

$999 • Jan 2025

GeForce RTX 4080

$1199 • Sep 2022

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

16GB GDDR6X 320W $959.00 Sep 2022

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
Memory Size	16 GB	16 GB
Memory Type	GDDR7	GDDR6X
TDP	360 W	320 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2617 MHz	2505 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	960 GB/s	716.8 GB/s
Process Size	5nm	5nm
Architecture	Blackwell 2.0	Ada Lovelace
Shading Units	10752	9728
RT Cores	84	76
TMUs	336	304
ROPs	112	112
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1875 MHz	1400 MHz
Pixel Rate	293.1 GPixel/s	280.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	879.3 GTexel/s	716.8 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	56.28 GFLOPS	48.74 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	64.00 MB	64.00 MB
Die Size	378 mm²	379 mm²
Transistors	45600 Million	45900 Million
Required PSU	750 W	700 W
Power Connectors	1x 16-pin	1x 16-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.4	1.3
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

36148 (+20%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

30216

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

297747 (+37%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

217712

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

410.9 FPS (+28%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

320.9 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

36508 (+6%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

34519

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Game Benchmarks Comparison (279 benchmarks)

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Background

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH

8 2026 • Action, Adventure • KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+12%)

AVG 125 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+12%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 89 FPS

MIN 80 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+15%)

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+13%)

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+12%)

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+8%)

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+78%)

AVG 303 FPS

MIN 280 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 170 FPS

MIN 153 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+80%)

AVG 249 FPS

MIN 242 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 138 FPS

MIN 129 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+100%)

AVG 194 FPS

MIN 181 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

Winner

Loser

Crimson Desert

7.5 2026 • Action, Adventure • Pearl Abyss

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+10%)

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+11%)

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+13%)

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Winner

Loser

Resident Evil Requiem

8.7 2026 • Action, Adventure • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+15%)

AVG 187 FPS

MIN 150 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 162 FPS

MIN 134 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+15%)

AVG 140 FPS

MIN 122 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 122 FPS

MIN 105 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+17%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+72%)

AVG 401 FPS

MIN 349 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 233 FPS

MIN 204 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+75%)

AVG 358 FPS

MIN 314 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 204 FPS

MIN 180 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+89%)

AVG 283 FPS

MIN 253 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 150 FPS

MIN 135 FPS

Winner

Loser

Styx: Blades of Greed

7.2 2026 • Action, Adventure • Cyanide Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+4%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 86 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 82 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+4%)

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+7%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Winner

Loser

CODE VEIN II DEMO

7.8 2026 • Action, RPG • Bandai Namco Studios Inc.

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5080 (+14%)

AVG 139 FPS

MIN 124 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 122 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5080 (+7%)

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5080 (+11%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

Winner

Loser

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora From The Ashes

7.6 2025 • Action, Adventure • Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Reflections

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 5080 (+2%)

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 91 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 5080 (+3%)

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 76 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 5080 (+6%)

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce RTX 4080

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Wins!

Based on 279 benchmarks across 74 games

107

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

+11.7%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 4080