NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1299.99
$ 1119.20
$ 180.79 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19480 points
24070 points
23% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

480 FPS
559 FPS
79 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

226 FPS
276 FPS
51 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

334 FPS
406 FPS
72 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

183 FPS
225 FPS
42 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6585 points
8762 points
33% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8733.11 points
9133.30 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

241464 points
267906 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

217807 points
257198 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2025 MHz
2295 MHz
13% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2375 MHz
2617 MHz
10% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB
Identical
16 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

678.4 GB/s
960 GB/s
41% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

420 W
360 W
16% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

228 Gigapixels/s
293.1 Gigapixels/s
28% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

760 Gigatexels/s
879.3 Gigatexels/s
15% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

48.64 TFLOPS
56.28 TFLOPS
15% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240
10752
5% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
336
5% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
112
16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

9th of 586
4th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2025 January

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 5080 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4080 in our tests.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5080 is faster than the GeForce RTX 4080.

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