Averages 185 FPS at 1440p over our 9-game suite, anchored estimate · high-refresh 1440p, this card pushes fast esports monitors properly
185 Avg FPS Includes estimates
Nothing here is a measurement of this card. It is an anchored estimate built from the cards we have run ourselves, on the identical suite. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, GeForce RTX 5080 averages 185 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 302 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 118 FPS, a 2.6x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means high-refresh 1440p, this card pushes fast esports monitors properly. Under load we logged a peak of 346W against the 360W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 121 FPS | 97 | 6.75 GB | 342 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 158 FPS | 122 | 6.57 GB | 335 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 118 FPS | 97 | 9.49 GB | 331 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 231 FPS | 189 | 7 GB | 346 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 219 FPS | 140 | 5.29 GB | 342 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 302 FPS | 166 | 7.13 GB | 253 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 208 FPS | 158 | 9.84 GB | 338 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 180 FPS | 114 | 14.72 GB | 272 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 132 FPS | 110 | 7.05 GB | 342 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Blackwell (GB203) |
| CUDA cores | 10,752 |
| VRAM | 16GB GDDR7 |
| Memory bus | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 960 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 2,617 MHz |
| TDP | 360 W |
| Process | 5nm |
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2025-01-30 |
| Launch MSRP | $999 |
GeForce RTX 5080 averages 185 FPS at 1440p on our suite. Nothing here is a measurement of this card. It is an anchored estimate built from the cards we have run ourselves, on the identical suite.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #3 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | 126% | 234 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | 107% | 198 | |
| GeForce RTX 5080 | 100% | 185 | |
| GeForce RTX 4080 Super | 90% | 167 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | 89% | 164 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 | 88% | 163 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT | 79% | 147 |
Same card, other workloads: GeForce RTX 5080 AI benchmarks, LLM tokens/sec, image generation & VRAM fit
| Transistors | 45,600 million |
| Die size | 378 mm² |
| Process node | 4 nm |
| Fabricated by | TSMC |
| Transistor density | 120.6 million per mm² |
Denser than 78% of the 76 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.
Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.
| Workflow | Time | Energy | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full codebase review | 12.2 min | 29.75 Wh | measured |
Can't run: 60-second AI short film (needs Qwen3 32B), 60-second AI short film, narrated (needs Qwen3 32B), 10 short social clips (needs Qwen3 32B), 40-product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), 6-panel comic page (needs Qwen3 32B), 20 long-form articles (needs Llama 3.3 70B), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), 100-photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), 24-frame storyboard (needs Qwen3 32B), 100-photo restore and enlarge (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev).
This card is $999 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on Vast.ai is $0.135/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.162/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 6,167 GPU-hours. Below it you are paying for idle silicon.
| How you would use it | GPU-hours a year | Rental cost a year | Time to break even |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 hours a day, hobby | 730 | $118 | 8.4 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $473 | 2.1 years |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $1,419 | 8.4 months |
At hobby usage this card is very unlikely to pay for itself before it is superseded. Rent it. Rental figures include a 20% premium over the cheapest listed rate. Ignores electricity, resale and the fact that a rented card can be a newer one tomorrow.
Cheapest of the RunPod and Vast on-demand rates we see, sampled daily. Spot and interruptible pricing runs lower.