I. Introduction
At present, if the budget allows for upgrading, purchasing the GeForce RTX 5080 is undoubtedly the best choice. However, the premium on the new product is too high, making it almost impossible to buy at the original price, which discourages potential buyers.
In this situation, some cost-conscious users may focus on the previous generation GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, wondering how big the performance gap is between these two graphics cards. This article will reveal the answer through testing.
II. Parameter Comparison
The GeForce RTX 5080 was released on January 6, 2025, using the GB203-400-A1 GPU chip, based on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture, manufactured with TSMC’s 5nm process. It has 10,752 CUDA cores, 84 ray tracing units, 128 raster units, 336 texture units, 336 tensor cores, and 76 multi-processors. The L2 cache is 64MB.
The standard operating frequency is 2295MHz, with a maximum operating frequency of 2617MHz. It is equipped with 16GB GDDR7 video memory, a memory bus width of 256 bits, a memory speed of 30Gbps, a memory bandwidth of 960GB/s, an FP32 floating-point performance of 56.28 T FLOPS, and a power consumption of 360W. The reference price is $999.
The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER was released on January 8, 2024, using the AD103 GPU, based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, and manufactured with TSMC’s 5nm process. It has 10,240 CUDA cores, 80 ray tracing units, 112 raster units, 320 texture units, 320 tensor cores, and 80 multi-processors. The L2 cache is 64MB.
The standard operating frequency is 2295MHz, with a maximum operating frequency of 2550MHz. It is equipped with 16GB GDDR6X video memory, a memory bus width of 256 bits, a memory speed of 23Gbps, a memory bandwidth of 736.3GB/s, an FP32 floating-point performance of 52.22 TFLOPS, and a power consumption of 320W. The suggested retail price is $999.
III. Test Platform Configuration
The main configuration is as follows:
Processor: Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Motherboard: ASRock X670E PG Lightning
Memory: 32GB DDR5 6000 MHz
Graphics Cards: GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
Storage: Two Samsung 970 EVO 1TB SSDs
Operating System: Windows 11
IV. Game Testing (RTX 5080 vs 4080 SUPER)
The following tests are conducted with seven games, all in 4K graphics mode. In the images, the left side represents the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER platform, while the right side represents the GeForce RTX 5080 platform.
The first game is God of War.
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER platform:
- Average frame rate: 99 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 71 FPS
- Frame time: 9.6ms
- CPU usage: 15%
- Power consumption: 50W
- Temperature: 46°C
- Memory usage: 11.9GB
- GPU usage: 99%
- VRAM usage: 9.1GB
- Power consumption: 265W
- Temperature: 58°C
GeForce RTX 5080 platform:
- Average frame rate: 114 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 96 FPS
- Frame time: 8.7ms
- CPU usage: 23%
- Power consumption: 53W
- Temperature: 47°C
- Memory usage: 11.9GB
- GPU usage: 99%
- VRAM usage: 8.7GB
- Power consumption: 282W
- Temperature: 53°C
In this game, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform has 8% higher CPU usage, with equal memory usage and GPU usage, and VRAM usage is 0.4GB lower. In terms of average frame rate, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform outperforms the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER by 15 FPS, with a 25 FPS higher lowest instant frame rate, a 1ms lower frame time, 17W higher power consumption, and a 5°C lower temperature.
The second game is Ghostwire: Tokyo.
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER platform:
- Average frame rate: 61 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 50 FPS
- Frame time: 16.1ms
- CPU usage: 11%
- Power consumption: 44W
- Temperature: 42°C
- Memory usage: 10.8GB
- GPU usage: 99%
- VRAM usage: 8.8GB
- Power consumption: 266W
- Temperature: 55°C
GeForce RTX 5080 platform:
- Average frame rate: 69 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 58 FPS
- Frame time: 13.9ms
- CPU usage: 10%
- Power consumption: 46W
- Temperature: 47°C
- Memory usage: 11.3GB
- GPU usage: 99%
- VRAM usage: 9.1GB
- Power consumption: 288W
- Temperature: 55°C
In this game, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform has 1% lower CPU usage, 0.5GB higher memory usage, and 0.3GB higher VRAM usage. In terms of average frame rate, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform performs 8 FPS better than the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, with an 8 FPS higher lowest instant frame rate, a 2ms lower frame time, 22W higher power consumption, and equal temperatures.
The third game is Silent Hill 2.
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER platform:
- Average frame rate: 71 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 57 FPS
- Frame time: 14.0ms
- CPU usage: 13%
- Power consumption: 49W
- Temperature: 43°C
- Memory usage: 11.1GB
- GPU usage: 98%
- VRAM usage: 8.8GB
- Power consumption: 236W
- Temperature: 56°C
GeForce RTX 5080 platform:
- Average frame rate: 78 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 63 FPS
- Frame time: 12.5ms
- CPU usage: 14%
- Power consumption: 55W
- Temperature: 48°C
- Memory usage: 11.3GB
- GPU usage: 97%
- VRAM usage: 8.9GB
- Power consumption: 251W
- Temperature: 51°C
In this game, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform has 1% higher CPU usage, with 0.2GB more memory usage, and similar GPU usage and VRAM usage. In terms of average frame rate, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform achieves 7 FPS better than the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, with 6 FPS higher lowest instant frame rate, 2ms lower frame time, 15W higher power consumption, and 5°C lower temperature.
The fourth game is Stalker 2.
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER platform:
- Average frame rate: 50 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 43 FPS
- Frame time: 19.5ms
- CPU usage: 18%
- Power consumption: 62W
- Temperature: 50°C
- Memory usage: 16.3GB
- GPU usage: 97%
- VRAM usage: 10.0GB
- Power consumption: 257W
- Temperature: 57°C
GeForce RTX 5080 platform:
- Average frame rate: 57 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 49 FPS
- Frame time: 17.0ms
- CPU usage: 23%
- Power consumption: 64W
- Temperature: 56°C
- Memory usage: 16.3GB
- GPU usage: 98%
- VRAM usage: 9.8GB
- Power consumption: 253W
- Temperature: 51°C
In this game, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform has 5% higher CPU usage, with equal memory usage and GPU usage, and 0.2GB lower VRAM usage. In terms of average frame rate, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform achieves 7 FPS higher than the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, with 6 FPS higher lowest instant frame rate, 2ms lower frame time, 4W lower power consumption, and 6°C lower temperature.
The fifth game is Microsoft Flight Simulator.
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER platform:
- Average frame rate: 46 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 40 FPS
- Frame time: 21.2ms
- CPU usage: 25%
- Power consumption: 57W
- Temperature: 47°C
- Memory usage: 21.7GB
- GPU usage: 99%
- VRAM usage: 13.3GB
- Power consumption: 266W
- Temperature: 57°C
GeForce RTX 5080 platform:
- Average frame rate: 52 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 49 FPS
- Frame time: 19.4ms
- CPU usage: 27%
- Power consumption: 63W
- Temperature: 51°C
- Memory usage: 21.1GB
- GPU usage: 99%
- VRAM usage: 13.4GB
- Power consumption: 272W
- Temperature: 54°C
In this game, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform has 2% higher CPU usage, with 0.6GB lower memory usage, and equal GPU usage and VRAM usage. In terms of average frame rate, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform achieves 6 FPS better than the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, with 9 FPS higher lowest instant frame rate, 2ms lower frame time, 6W higher power consumption, and 3°C lower temperature.
The sixth game is Forza Horizon 5.
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER platform:
- Average frame rate: 111 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 99 FPS
- Frame time: 9.4ms
- CPU usage: 26%
- Power consumption: 55W
- Temperature: 45°C
- Memory usage: 12.0GB
- GPU usage: 99%
- VRAM usage: 9.9GB
- Power consumption: 232W
- Temperature: 55°C
GeForce RTX 5080 platform:
- Average frame rate: 127 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 115 FPS
- Frame time: 7.7ms
- CPU usage: 35%
- Power consumption: 61W
- Temperature: 46°C
- Memory usage: 11.6GB
- GPU usage: 99%
- VRAM usage: 9.9GB
- Power consumption: 233W
- Temperature: 49°C
In this game, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform has 9% higher CPU usage, with 0.4GB lower memory usage, and equal GPU usage and VRAM usage. In terms of average frame rate, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform outperforms the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER by 16 FPS, with 16 FPS higher lowest instant frame rate, 2ms lower frame time, 1W higher power consumption, and 6°C lower temperature.
The seventh game is Horizon Forbidden West.
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER platform:
- Average frame rate: 75 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 61 FPS
- Frame time: 14.0ms
- CPU usage: 37%
- Power consumption: 89W
- Temperature: 63°C
- Memory usage: 11.2GB
- GPU usage: 99%
- VRAM usage: 10.2GB
- Power consumption: 248W
- Temperature: 54°C
GeForce RTX 5080 platform:
- Average frame rate: 83 FPS
- Lowest instant frame rate: 71 FPS
- Frame time: 11.8ms
- CPU usage: 26%
- Power consumption: 69W
- Temperature: 52°C
- Memory usage: 11.2GB
- GPU usage: 99%
- VRAM usage: 9.6GB
- Power consumption: 267W
- Temperature: 49°C
In this game, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform has 11% lower CPU usage, with equal memory usage and GPU usage, and 0.6GB lower VRAM usage. In terms of average frame rate, the GeForce RTX 5080 platform performs 8 FPS better than the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, with a 10 FPS higher lowest instant frame rate, a 2ms lower frame time, 19W higher power consumption, and 5°C lower temperature.
V. Conclusion
The comparison results are clear: the GeForce RTX 5080 does indeed have slightly better performance than the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, but the difference is not significant.
In this case, if you are looking for cost-effectiveness and not chasing the latest models, the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is clearly the more worthwhile option.
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