NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 1299.99
$ 294.49
$ 1005.50 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19480 points
137% significantly better overall score
8206 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

480 FPS
288 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
192 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

226 FPS
130 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

334 FPS
194 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
139 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

183 FPS
108 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
75 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6585 points
109% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3149 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8733.11 points
136% significantly higher Blender score
3690.41 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

241464 points
90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
126840 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

217807 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
120026 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2025 MHz
2280 MHz
12% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2375 MHz
2497 MHz
5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

678.4 GB/s
51% significantly higher memory bandwidth
448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

420 W
145 W
189% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

228 Gigapixels/s
90% significantly higher pixel rate
119.9 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

760 Gigatexels/s
153% significantly higher texture rate
299.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240
166% significantly more shading units
3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
166% significantly more texture mapping units
120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
100% significantly more render output processors
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

9th of 586
51st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 4080 vs GeForce RTX 5060 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5060 in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4080 is better than the GeForce RTX 5060.

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