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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080: Two-minute review

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080: Price & availability

How much is it? MSRP is $999 / £939 / AU$2,019
When can you get it? The RTX 5080 goes on sale January 30, 2025
Where is it available? The RTX 5080 will be available in the US, UK, and Australia at launch

Where to buy the RTX 5080

Looking to pick up the RTX 5080? Check out our Where to Buy RTX 5080 live blog for updates to find stock in the US and UK.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 goes on sale on January 30, 2025, starting at $999 / £939 / AU$2,019 for the Founders Edition card from Nvidia, as well as select AIB partner cards. Third-party overclocked (OC) cards and those with other extras like liquid cooling and RGB will ultimately cost more.

The RTX 5080 launches at a much lower price than the original RTX 4080, which had a launch MSRP of $1,199 / £1,189 / AU$2,219, though the RTX 5080 does come in at the same price as the Nvidia RTX 4080 Super.

It’s worth noting that the RTX 5080 is fully half the MSRP of the Nvidia RTX 5090 that launches at the same time, and given the performance of the RTX 5080, a lot of potential buyers out there will likely find the RTX 5080 to be the better value of the two cards.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080: Specs & features

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080's power connection port

(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)

GDDR7 and PCIe 5.0
Slightly higher SM count than RTX 4080 Super
Moderate increase in TDP, but nothing like the RTX 5090

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 specs vs RTX 4080 Super vs RTX 4080
Header Cell – Column 0	Nvidia RTX 5080	Nvidia RTX 4080 Super	Nvidia RTX 4080
Process Technology	TSMC 4nm	TSMC 5nm	TSMC 5nm
Transistors (Billion)	45.6	45.9	45.9
Compute units	84	80	76
Shaders	10752	10240	9728
AI/Matrix cores	336	320	304
Ray Tracing Cores	84	80	76
Render Output Units	128	112	112
Texture Mapping Units	336	320	304
Boost Clock (MHz)	2617	2550	2505
Memory type	GDDR7	GDDR6X	GDDR6X
VRAM (GB)	16	16	16
VRAM Bus Width	256	256	256
VRAM Speed (Gbps)	28	23	22.4
Bandwidth (GB/s)	1210	736.3	716.8
TDP (watts)	360	320	320
PCIe Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080: Design

Slim, dual-slot form factor
Better cooling

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080: Performance

An Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 slotted into a test bench

(Image credit: Future)

A note on my data

The charts shown below are the most recent test data I have for the cards tested for this review and may change over time as more card results are added and cards are retested. The ‘average of all cards tested’ includes cards not shown in these charts for readability purposes.

Should you buy the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080?

A masculine hand holding an RTX 5090

(Image credit: Future)

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Scorecard
Category	Notes	Score
Value	Row 0 – Cell 1	/ 5
Specs & features	Row 1 – Cell 1	/ 5
Design	Row 2 – Cell 1	/ 5
Performance	Row 3 – Cell 1	/ 5
Final score	Row 4 – Cell 1	/ 5

Buy the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 if…

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How I tested the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080

I spent about a week and a half with the RTX 5080
I used my complete GPU testing suite to analyze the card’s performance
I tested the card in everyday, gaming, creative, and AI workload usage

Test System Specs

Here are the specs on the system I used for testing:

Motherboard: ASRock Z790i Lightning WiFi
CPU: Intel Core i9-14900K
CPU Cooler: Gigabyte Auros Waterforce II 360 ICE
RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR5-6600 (2 x 16GB)
SSD: Crucial T705
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower PF3 1050W Platinum
Case: Praxis Wetbench

Originally reviewed January 2024

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