GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 (72/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 43)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 76)
GeForce RTX 4080
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4080

72/100
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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 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 76.0 Good 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 64637 75605
Night Raid 185072 199650
Port Royal 17984 23275
Solar Bay 136995 161489
Time Spy 28155 33000
Wild Life Extreme 59123 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 8.9 12.0
DLSS DLSS 3 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 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 219 239
1080p Ultra 187 205
1440p Ultra 148 165
4K Ultra 86 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 217213167111 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 30622016885 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 19217711954 21319213861
Far Cry 6 18116314388 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 229170154120 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 14812610969 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 16213610959 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 290265204107 306276214111
The Witcher 3 24521015781 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 65667 69068
Face Detection (HP) 70927 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 13466 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 34767 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 42687 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 6519 7905
Object Detection (SP) 18153 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 239350 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 414848 349205
Text Classification (SP) 3606 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 250.4 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 12.8 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 190 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.97 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 15.3 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 9.56 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 28795.5 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 1130 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 7900 XTX —
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD103 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $1199 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 14700Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released September 20, 2022 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 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 2205 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 2505 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 76 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 64MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 76 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 112
Shading Units 9728 10752
Tensor Cores 304 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 304 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 22400 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1400 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 313 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 133 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 1250 1397
GPU Compute 20319 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 379 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 320 W 360 W
Transistor Count 45 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 118.73 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 281 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 762 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 5080
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2025-05-02(Rennsport) GeekBench —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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