NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER. Release years: 2024, 2025. MSRP range: $999 · $999. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 16 | 16 |
| vram type | GDDR7 | GDDR6X |
| tdp w | 360 | 320 |
| cuda cores | 10752 | 10240 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 79,045 points | 55,495 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | 39,871 points | — |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra | 21,262 points | — |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 24,924 points | 18,593 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 9,039 points | 7,558 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 8,938 points | 6,621 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 32,642 points | 27,024 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 16,244 points | 13,324 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Graphics | 32,701 points | — |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,407 pts | 1,279 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 35,697 pts | 34,256 pts |
| Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy | 1 rank | 1 rank |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
- llama2:7b: 182.0 tok/s
- gpt-oss:20b: 140.5 tok/s
- llama3.1:8b: 132.0 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
- llama2:7b: 147.1 tok/s
- qwen3:8b: 102.7 tok/s
- llama3.1:8b: 102.0 tok/s
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