GeForce RTX 5080 vs Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada

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

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada (73/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 44)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 72)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 44.0 Poor
Gaming 88.0 Very Good WINNER 72.0 Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Fire Strike 75605 49922
Night Raid 199650 139369
Port Royal 23275 17986
Solar Bay 161489 128428
Time Spy 33000 18364
Wild Life Extreme 69617 52866

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
CUDA 12.0 8.9
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
1080p High 239 194
1080p Ultra 205 163
1440p Ultra 165 129
4K Ultra 96 76
CoD: Modern Warfare III 250244197135 18217613791
Counter-Strike 2 31723817887 29221115886
Cyberpunk 2077 21319213861 1601439948
Far Cry 6 19417115597 16515313281
Forza Horizon 5 250186179138 20114113298
Ghost of Tsushima 16614212682 1291069359
Hogwarts Legacy 18515212467 1391149251
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 306276214111 265241188101
The Witcher 3 27124417290 21218413373

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 69068 50352
Face Detection (HP) 92863 43098
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15441 9943
Image Segmentation (HP) 47173 19696
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43223 32252
Machine Translation (HP) 7905 4064
Object Detection (SP) 20955 12467
Pose Estimation (Q) 202202 138689
Style Transfer (SP) 349205 265482
Text Classification (SP) 3701 2893

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 319.6 img/sec 286.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 19.5 Gpixels/sec 13.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 225 img/sec 220.4 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.33 Gpixels/sec 2.2 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 20.4 Gpixels/sec 18.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 13.6 Gpixels/sec 9.93 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 43676.6 FPS 41235.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 1750 Gpixels/sec 1580 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB203-400 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $4000
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released January 7, 2025 August 9, 2023
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Base Clock 2295 MHz 1155 MHz
Boost Clock 2617 MHz 2550 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 84 100
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 64MB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 84 100
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 176
Shading Units 10752 12800
Tensor Cores 336 400
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 336 400

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 30000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1875 MHz 2250 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
DirectX 11 327 FPS 271 FPS
DirectX 12 145 FPS 110 FPS
G2D Mark 1397 1009
GPU Compute 19034 Ops/s 20730 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Die Size 378 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 360 W 250 W
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 76 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 124.79 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Pixel Fill Rate 293 GPixel/s 449 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 879 GTexel/s 1020 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) Cinebench 2024 —

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