NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 5080 VS RTX 4090: And the winner is?

Today, Nvidia’s Embargo is lifted on the performance of its GeForce RTX 5080, and we can finally see how its game performance is compared to the RTX 4090, 4080 Super and AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. This RTX 5080 review follows the RTX 5090 review last week, and although it costs an eye-watering $ 2,000, its massive performance means that they are still likely to appeal to them with very large budgets.

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For $ 1,000, the RTX 5080 is half the price, although much depends on the availability, with prices that are not expected to settle for February. But with AMDS RADEON RX 9070 XT, which is not expected to offer competition for NVIDIA’s top-end card, prices can remain higher than expected, even for RTX 5080.

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Nvidia RTX RTX 5080 Review: Specifications

Below are the specifications of the new RTX 50 Series graphics cards. The most important thing to note is probably how much more powerful RTX 5090 is than the RTX 5080. It has twice as much of almost everything – double memory, more than double the cuda kernels and a memory bus that is twice as wide. Therefore, it is so expensive, but fortunately that it is also translated into a great achievement.

NVIDIA RTX RTX 5080 Review: What is DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation?

Two key features introduced with the RTX 50 Series and its Blackwell architecture are DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation. The new transformer model used in its DLSS SCALERING brings image quality benefits, and the best of all is that although the RTX 50 series has more hardware under the cap to handle DLSS features, DLSS 4 is backward compatible.

That said, not all features are backward compatible with all RTX-capable graphics cards. Framework generation is limited to the RTX 40 Series and the 50 Series, and Multi Frame Generation only works on 50 Series cards. When we talk about framework generation, the original feature added an artificially generated frame between every two normally reproduced frames. This great framerate benefits.

With the RTX 50 Series, this turbocharged with Multi Frame Generation. This adds even more artificially generated frames to the point that an average image rate of 60 FPS can be increased to well over 200 fps. It can be selected, with one, two or three frames that can be added to any normally reproduced frame.

It can be particularly useful for Lower Owners End RTX 50 Series cards who find their hardware restriction when playing on high update speed monitors and need higher image speeds, or just to get silky frame rates in very demanding games. As usual, game support is the key and so far Nvidia says 75 games At launch, DLSS 4 and Multi SHOULD support generation.

NVIDIA RTX RTX 5080 Review Test System

The test system used the latest drivers, gaming and Windows updates and has an AMD Ryzen 7 9800x3D and 32 GB DDR5 6000 memory. All games were run with 4K resolution and where it was possible DLSS and framework generation turned on and off to get a number of results.

Nvidia rtx rtx 5080 gaming performance

For those who do not want to silence through all the individual graphs, I have created listings based on the average image speed across all games both with and without multi hitting generation used. This is very game -specific, so the results will vary compared to others who have tested this card today. I also highly recommend checking them out as TechPowerup and Hardware Unboxed For their reviews as they offer similar overall views on performance across a wide range of titles. Without it, standard framework generation is used on AMD and NVIDIA cards. In the lower graph, the highest image rate using multi frame generation was used for RTX 5080 and 5090.

As we can see above, without multi -frame generation, the RTX 4090 is quite a little faster -actually 20% than the RTX 5080 in the games used here, but the RTX 5090 is almost 50% faster. Meanwhile, RTX 4080 Super and AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX 10% and 22% slower and RX 7900 XT is 34% slower.

Activation of multi -frame -generation in some of the game tests and selecting these results for Cyberpunk 2077 and Alan Wake 2 sees RTX 5080 Overhaul RTX 4090 together, but only with 1% thanks to RTX 4090, which lacks multi -frame support. Adding several multi -frame generation titles would of course see this number rise and probably match Nvidia’s launch requirements. The RTX 5090 is actually expanding its lead, albeit by a single percentage point. RTX 4080 Super and RX 7900 XTX was 26% and 40% slower respectively, and RX 7900 XT slides to 49% slower than RTX 5080.

Nvidia rtx rtx 5080 game benchmarks

Nvidia RTX RTX 5080 Review Conclusion

If you want to play modern games that benefit from DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation, then the RTX 5080 offers unmatched performance that has only been improved by its larger brother RTX 5090. $ 1,000 is still a huge amount for a graphics card, but with With 75 DLSS 4/Multi Frame Generation, which already supports titles available, the catalog of options is quite wide, but clearly far from being a wide winding.

It benefits the most handling of modern games and teeth for whole eye sweets, and if you can afford it, the RTX 5080 is much better value than the RTX 5090, which costs twice as much for about 50% more performance. It is still a staggering amount of extra performance, so there is no doubt that the RTX 5090 will still sell surprisingly well, just as the RTX 4090 did before it and grabbed one percent of the Steam Hardware Survey share of GPUs while it Was by it. Even with multi frame generation activated in one -third of the game tests, it is still not enough for RTX 5080 to improve the RTX 4090 by more than one percentage overall.

To put multi -hit generation aside and this is where the image becomes more complicated. The RTX 4090 then becomes much faster card in general and adds an average of 20% more performance, and there is only a 10% lifting over the RTX 4080 Super also compared to 26% when the multi -frame generation was activated. It is worth repeating that only one -third of the games tested used used multi frame generation.

A huge amount depends on pricing, with RTX 5080 and 5090 in great demand and no competition from AMD, which may mean that prices will be higher than $ 999 and $ 1,000 specified by NVIDIA, while older RTX 40-Series- cards can have their value relatively well. Without Multi hit the generation and the gap between old and new are slimmer, with only a 10% gain over the RTX 4080 super. This is where pricing will be key as the RTX 4080 super prices are still very high. At the same price, the RTX 5080 is a much better purchase in any situation, but if the 4080 -Super starts to take advantage of price cuts, this situation can change quickly.

Time will show, but in the end, if you are interested in generating multiple frames and can afford it, the RTX 5080 is a decent upgrade from something below or older than the RTX 4080 Super and 4080 when it appeared in a similar way, as well as Like everything AMD at the moment has. Even if multi frame generation and non-multi-frame generation games make up less than half of your regularly played games, this still applies.