GEFORCE RTX 5080 reviews – a miserable upgrade compared to GeForce RTX 4080

Tomorrow will begin sales of new generation NVIDIA senior video cards at the Blackwell architecture. Reviews of the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 were released last Thursday, and today the profile press published the results of testing the second most senior video card of the new series – the GeForce RTX 5080.

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The GEFORCE RTX 5080 video card is built on the NVIDIA GB203-400 graphic processor, which offers 10,752 Cuda nuclei, 336 texture and 128 raster blocks, as well as 84 fourth-generation RT-pora and 336 fifth-generation core nuclei. The basic clock frequency of the GPU in the reference version is 2300 MHz, and the Boost-frequency is 2620 MHz.

The GEFORCE RTX 5080 graphic accelerator received 16 GB of the GDDR7 video memory at a speed of 30 Gbit/s and a 256-bit tire, which ultimately provides the bandwidth of memory subsystems at 960 GB/s. It is interesting that the memory here is more fast than the RTX 5090. The power consumption of the video card is 360 watts is a very impressive indicator, but there are not so many in comparison with the flagship RTX 5090.

The recommended cost of the GeForce RTX 5080 is $ 999 is half the flagship GeForce RTX 5090. If we compare with its predecessors, then the GeForce RTX 4080 came out with a recommended price of $ 1199, and its improved version of the GeForce RTX 4080 Super was offered for the same $ 999.

TechSpot tests showed that the new GeForce RTX 5080 provides almost the same productivity level as the RTX 4080 Super. With traditional rendering, without tracing rays, in resolution of Full HD (1920 × 1080), the novelty completely lost to the predecessor, while in 1440p (2560 × 1440) and 4K (3840 × 2160) it was ahead of her by 5–10 % on average. With tracing rays, the situation has changed slightly, but there is no longer a lag in Full HD.

The GeForce RTX 5080 has a trump card in a sleeve that GEFORCE RTX 4080 Super and any other video card of the past generation does not have, support for generating several DLSS 4 MFG frames. Recall that Blackwell graphics cards are able to generate up to three additional frames for each shouted frame. In turn, the maps of the past generation can offer the generation of only one additional frame. Of course, this significantly increases FPS.

With the generation of many frames, the video card noticeably breaks forward relative to the RTX 4080 Super. Depending on the script and game, the novelty can provide two to almost four -fold growth rate of personnel compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 Super. Observers note that the inclusion of personnel generation increases the delay, but slightly – about 10 %. Dynamic games, according to ComputerBase, benefit from DLSS 4 MFG: on a monitor with a high frequency of update, the game looks much smoother than with the usual frame generation. However, in general, the “real” rendering without generation from a visual point of view looks better.

As for energy consumption, here without surprises. In the Games of GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition, it consumes 325 watts, the maximum consumption is 375 watts, and the peak – 417 watts. This is noticeably higher than the GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce RTX 4080 Super.

In general, the GeForce RTX 5080 is a very worthy video card that provides very high performance in any modern game with maximum settings for the quality of graphics and ray trace. However, the observers agree that the GeForce RTX 5080 has been overestimated. The new card for $ 999 offers almost the same level of pure performance as the predecessor for the same price a year and a half ago.

«The video card demonstrates the smallest jump in performance compared to the predecessor in the entire history of the GeForce of the 80th series, which has existed for more than two decades. Even the GeForce GTX 580 showed a greater increase compared to the GTX 480, despite the almost identical GPU, ”the ComputerBase noted.

Thus, the purchase of RTX 5080 makes sense mainly for the owners of the GEFORCE RTX of the 30th series and older models. Support for generating several personnel is rather a pleasant bonus – at least at the moment, since DLSS 4 is supported in just a few games. The owners of the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Super should not worry about the need to replace the new product.