Averages 190 FPS at 1440p over our 9-game suite, anchored estimate · high-refresh 1440p, this card pushes fast esports monitors properly
190 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 190 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 | 144 FPS | 115 | 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 | 152 FPS | 127 | 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 190 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 | 135% | 256 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | 112% | 213 | |
| GeForce RTX 5080 | 100% | 190 | |
| GeForce RTX 4080 Super | 89% | 170 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 | 87% | 166 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | 86% | 164 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT | 77% | 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 92% of the 746 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 |
| Animate a batch of images | 20.9 min | 83.14 Wh | measured |
Can't run: Product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Restore and enlarge photos (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), Short social clips (needs Qwen3 32B), 60-second AI short film (needs Qwen3 32B), 24-frame storyboard (needs Qwen3 32B), 6-panel comic page (needs Qwen3 32B), Long-form article batch (needs Llama 3.3 70B).
This card is $999 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on Vast.ai is $0.223/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.268/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 3,733 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 | $195 | 5.1 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $781 | 1.3 years |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $2,344 | 5.1 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.