Nvidia

GeForce RTX 5080

The GeForce RTX 5080 is Nvidia’s 16GB graphics card with a 360W board power rating, built on the Blackwell GB203 architecture. Below you’ll find its full spec sheet and gaming and productivity benchmarks, plus all 23 board versions we track, each with its cheapest current price in Germany.

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GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card

Gaming performance

Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Render and synthetic scores are in the Benchmarks section below.

Gaming scores are normalised performance indexes derived from Tom’s Hardware’s published GPU benchmarks. Performance per dollar and per watt are our own calculations on top of that data.

GeForce RTX 5080Top GPU
90.4
100.0

1080p Gaming

78.0
100.0

1440p Gaming

67.2
100.0

4K Gaming

The GeForce RTX 5080 scores 90.4 at 1080p, 78.0 at 1440p, and 67.2 at 4K on a scale where 100 = the fastest GPU we test (RTX 5090). These scores apply to all board versions of this chip.

Performance-per-euro rank among all GPUs with live pricing in Germany

Value at 1080p

#20

of 21

Value at 1440p

#16

of 20

Value at 4K

#14

of 17

Benchmarks

Standardized benchmark scores for this chip, each compared to the fastest card we track and linked to its source. They apply to every board version.

3D & gaming

3DMark Fire Strike Graphicstechnical.city ↗
GeForce RTX 508064,194 points
GeForce RTX 4090 (best)75,641 points
3DMark Steel NomadUL 3DMark ↗
GeForce RTX 50808,858 points
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)14,544 points
PassMark G3DPassMark Software ↗
GeForce RTX 508035,648 G3D Mark
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)38,974 G3D Mark

Render

BlenderBlender Open Data ↗
GeForce RTX 50809,126 samples/min
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)15,017 samples/min

Compute & AI

Geekbench 7 OpenCLGeekbench Browser ↗
GeForce RTX 5080259,634 points
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)365,480 points

GeForce RTX 5080 versions (23)

Every board version we track, cheapest first.

From€1,599.00
+ €8.99 shipping
23 versions in stock

23 board versions of the GeForce RTX 5080 are listed above, starting from €1,599.00. Prices update daily from live retailer stock. Click any version name for its full spec sheet and all current retailer prices. Prices include 19% VAT. Shipping is shown under each price, and offers are listed by price plus shipping.

Specifications

Board versions of the GeForce RTX 5080 range from 300–360 mm long, so check your case's GPU clearance before buying.

Performance

Boost clock
2617 MHz
Base clock
2300 MHz
Shader cores
10,752
SM count
84
Texture units (TMUs)
336
Render outputs (ROPs)
112
RT cores
84 · 4th gen
Tensor / AI cores
336 · 5th gen

Memory

VRAM
16GB GDDR7
Memory bus
256-bit
Bandwidth
960 GB/s
Memory speed
30 Gbps
L2 cache
64 MB

GPU die

Architecture
Blackwell GB203
Process node
TSMC 4N
Foundry
TSMC
Die size
378 mm²
Transistors
45.6 billion
Generation
GeForce RTX 50

Power

TDP
360W
Recommended PSU
850W
Power connectors
1 16-pin

Display & outputs

Max resolution
7680 × 4320
Max displays
4
HDCP
2.3
Outputs
1 HDMI 2.1b, 3 DisplayPort 2.1b
PCIe interface
PCIe 5.0 ×16

APIs & software

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12.2)
Vulkan
1.4
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
CUDA
Compute 12.0
Shader model
6.9

Video encoding & decoding

CodecEncodeDecode
H.264 / AVCSupportedSupported
H.265 / HEVCSupportedSupported
AV1SupportedSupported
VP9Not supportedSupported

Encoder: NVENC 9th gen · Decoder: NVDEC 6th gen

Features

Upscaling
DLSS Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, Frame Generation, Multi Frame Generation, DLSS 5 Neural Rendering
Also runs
FSR 3, FSR 3 Frame Generation, XeSS 2, XeSS 2 Frame Generation
Resizable BAR
Yes

Physical

Reference length
304 mm
Slot width
2 slots
Released
2025-01-30

10,752 shader cores feed a 256-bit memory interface delivering 960 GB/s of peak bandwidth. 84 RT cores handle real-time ray tracing; 336 tensor cores accelerate AI workloads and DLSS Super Resolution. Compare the GeForce RTX 5080 against the full GPU lineup on the full graphics card rankings.

Local AI performance

What the GeForce RTX 5080 can run on your own machine, and how fast.

Largest model it can run (8K context)

Q4 (the usual choice, near-original quality)
~20B
Q8 (closer to original, half the model size)
~12B
FP16 (unquantised, for training and research)
~6.6B

Parameter counts the card holds with room for an 8K conversation, counting the model weights plus its attention cache. A longer conversation needs more memory, so it lowers these figures.

Speed & value

Speed, 8B model at Q4
124-146 tok/s
Memory bandwidth
960 GB/s
Price per GB of VRAM
€99.94

Generation speed tracks memory bandwidth, because every word produced reads the whole model from memory. Shown as a range.

Models that fit, at Q4

ModelSizeMemory neededEst. speed
GPT Oss 20B20.9B13.2GB—
Granite Code 20B20.1B13.7GB52-61 tok/s
Starcoder2 15B16.0B9.7GB67-78 tok/s

Popular models small enough for this card at Q4, one per family. Speed is left blank for mixture-of-experts models, where a bandwidth estimate is not reliable enough to publish.

Choosing a card for AI? Compare every GPU for local AI, including setups that pool the memory of two or more cards.

Across generations

Where the GeForce RTX 5080 sits in Nvidia’s lineup — the generation before and after.

Previous generation
GeForce RTX 4080

How the GeForce RTX 5080 compares

Similar cards worth a look, based on live prices in Germany and 1440p gaming performance. Open a card for its full spec sheet.

Step down
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
9% slower21% cheaper (€336.12)

Save 21% (€336.12) for roughly 9% less 1440p performance.

16GB · from €1,262.88

Rival brand
Radeon RX 9070 XT
12% slower46% cheaper (€737.83)

AMD's closest match, within 12% on 1440p performance, 46% cheaper (€737.83).

16GB · from €861.17

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