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Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is ahead of the Arc B580 on all 7 shared benchmarks on file, by 101% to 238%, including 116% in 3DMark Time Spy (32,642 vs 15,135). On qwen2.5:14b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 generates 85.0 tokens/s (per Local AI Master) against 35.0 for the Arc B580 (per Run AI Home), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Arc B580 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080. Released 2024 (Arc B580), 2025 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080). MSRP range: $249 · $999. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

SpecArc B580NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
vram gb 1216
vram type GDDR6GDDR7
tdp w 190360
cuda cores —10752

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from LanOC Reviews, XDA Developers, NoobFeed, 3DMark, HWBOT, Tweaktown, HWCooling, PC Watch, Overclocking.com, Notebookcheck, UL Benchmarks, Club386, TechPowerUp, KitGuru, Tom's Guide and PassMark; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkArc B580NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: LanOC Reviews		 —79,045 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (higher is better)
Source: LanOC Reviews		 —39,871 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (higher is better)
Source: XDA Developers, LanOC Reviews		 7,953 points21,262 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: NoobFeed, 3DMark, HWBOT, Tweaktown, HWCooling, PC Watch		 7,910 points24,924 points
3DMark Solar Bay (higher is better)
Source: PC Watch		 56,724 points—
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: Overclocking.com, 3DMark, LanOC Reviews, Notebookcheck, PC Watch		 2,664 points9,010 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: UL Benchmarks, Club386, LanOC Reviews, PC Watch		 3,084 points8,568 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: TechPowerUp, Notebookcheck, KitGuru, LanOC Reviews, XDA Developers		 15,135 pts32,642 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better)
Source: LanOC Reviews		 —16,244 points
3DMark Time Spy Graphics (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck		 —32,701 points
Blender Benchmark (median score) (higher is better)
Source: Tom's Guide		 2,201 points—
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark		 701 pts1,407 pts

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

Arc B580

All Arc B580 AI benchmarks →

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

All NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

Which is faster, the Arc B580 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is ahead of the Arc B580 on all 7 shared benchmarks on file, by 101% to 238%, including 116% in 3DMark Time Spy (32,642 vs 15,135).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen2.5:14b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 generates 85.0 tokens/s (per Local AI Master) against 35.0 for the Arc B580 (per Run AI Home), best community run on file for each.

What did the Arc B580 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 cost at launch?

The Arc B580 launched at a $249 MSRP and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 at $999. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.

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