Nvidia's RTX 5080 fails to beat the RTX 4090 in most tests, be it gaming or AI; however, it is significantly cheaper than the old flagship GPU.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 doesn't get a substantial gen-on-gen uplift, but it does bring RTX 4090 performance within reach for many, especially gamers. Skip to main content.

The RTX 5080 is, on paper, a weaker card than the RTX 4090, with around 50% fewer CUDA cores, fewer RT and Tensor cores (albeit from a later generation), 50% less memory, and a narrower memory bus.

That's because the RTX 4090 uses a very wide 384-bit memory bus, which means it literally has 384 connections from the GPU to the memory, while the RTX 5080 is expected to have a smaller 256-bit ...

That being said, the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 will most certainly provide better rasterization performance without DLSS 4, ... Micro Center will definitely have stock, ...

In 3DMark, the RTX 5080 reportedly managed a graphics score of 32,701 points in Time Spy (as per @olrak29_).Similarly, specced PCs fitted with an RTX 4090 should manage around 36,000, while RTX ...

Nvidia says the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 may both go out of stock. Rumors have suggested there will be low stocks of these next-gen GPUs.

The leaked benchmarks also suggest that the RTX 5080 might fall short of surpassing the RTX 4090 in performance. Traditionally, 80-class GPUs have outperformed 90-class GPUs from the previous ...

Other RTX 5080 variants from Gigabyte are also on offer, topping out at the Xtreme Waterforce 16GB model, which costs $1,400 and comes with an included radiator and triple-fan cooling setup.

PC builders love Micro Center because its stores are full of PC parts you can actually see and touch. It also carries the most popular PC graphics cards, such as Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 and ...