GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce RTX 2080 (37/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 27)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 35)
GeForce RTX 2080
GeForce

GeForce RTX 2080

37/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5080
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5080

84/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 27.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 35.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 27672 75605
Night Raid 100912 199650
Port Royal 6460 23275
Solar Bay 49851 161489
Time Spy 11077 33000
Wild Life Extreme 22307 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 118 239
1080p Ultra 97 205
1440p Ultra 72 165
4K Ultra 40 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 97916742 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 21316211662 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 86784721 21319213861
Far Cry 6 112977643 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 127807148 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 78634627 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 80655225 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1291228945 306276214111
The Witcher 3 1441178747 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 28373 69068
Face Detection (HP) 34245 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 7122 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 17897 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 16120 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 4328 7905
Object Detection (SP) 8748 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 69601 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 154510 349205
Text Classification (SP) 2181 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 191.8 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 6.2 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 115.9 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.3 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.56 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 4.74 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 15858.8 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 499.7 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU104 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $699 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -AMD Ryzen 9 9900Xor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released September 20, 2018 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5080 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1515 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1710 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 46 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 46 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 112
Shading Units 2944 10752
Tensor Cores 368 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 184 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 160 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 71 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 897 1397
GPU Compute 7719 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 545 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 215 W 360 W
Transistor Count 13 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 23.85 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 109 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 315 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 5080
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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