NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

[jonneymendoza]

Oh no I totally agree, the 5000 series really isn’t great at all IMHO. Just clarifying that if 10% is seen as “poor”, then 15% is hardly “significant” in comparison. Even if it is technically 50% better

It is great for us on 30 series or below

 

[mrk]

Even though some were coping against the bleeding obvious, here we go

New Leak Reveals NVIDIA RTX 5080 Is Slower Than RTX 4090

A set of newly leaked benchmarks has revealed the performance capabilities of NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 5080 GPU. Scheduled to launch alongside the RTX 5090 on January 30, the GPU was spotted on Geekbench under OpenCL and Vulkan benchmark tests—and based on the performance, it might not make it...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Monkeyboysteve]

It is great for us on 30 series or below

yeah, I swear people seem to forget that most people are not upgrading from a 4000 series...

 

[Monkeyboysteve]

Even though some were coping against the bleeding obvious, here we go

New Leak Reveals NVIDIA RTX 5080 Is Slower Than RTX 4090

A set of newly leaked benchmarks has revealed the performance capabilities of NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 5080 GPU. Scheduled to launch alongside the RTX 5090 on January 30, the GPU was spotted on Geekbench under OpenCL and Vulkan benchmark tests—and based on the performance, it might not make it...

www.techpowerup.com

but the 4070 is as fast as a 5090 according to Jensen. so that can't be true. /s

 

[Raiden85]

Even though some were coping against the bleeding obvious, here we go

New Leak Reveals NVIDIA RTX 5080 Is Slower Than RTX 4090

A set of newly leaked benchmarks has revealed the performance capabilities of NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 5080 GPU. Scheduled to launch alongside the RTX 5090 on January 30, the GPU was spotted on Geekbench under OpenCL and Vulkan benchmark tests—and based on the performance, it might not make it...

www.techpowerup.com

Keeps my 4090 price higher so I'm fine with this

 

[mrk]

You know the rhyme, 1st the worst, 2nd the best, 3rd the one with the hairy chest?

Yeah

 

[john_smith]

yeah, I swear people seem to forget that most people are not upgrading from a 4000 series...

Same. The % jump form a 3090 for me is huge.

 

[Bidley]

It is a better deal for us 3000 series owners, but not if you consider we could've had most of that uplift a year ago. If you factor in the cost of a used 4080/Super now against a brand new AIB 5080 then it looks even worse. Then the only thing you're really getting is 10% performance (not far off an OC 4080 Super) and MFG.

 

[ljt]

It is great for us on 30 series or below

I'm on a 3080 and none of this generation is what I would call "great"

When has there ever been a generation of cards where only one sku will be faster than the previous generations flagship?

 

[PaulW]

Speak to @ne0, OcUK's very own Wolf of Wall Street , he'll be able to grab you one for just a few hundred ...

i few hundred OCUK Smackeroonies?

 

[wildman]

yeah, I swear people seem to forget that most people are not upgrading from a 4000 series...

agree, I am still rocking a 2070 Super, so going to even a 5070 for me is going to be a very significant performance gain especially as I will be switching to AM5 probably 78000 or 9800 X3D as my i7 9700 is getting a bit long in the tooth. I don't game in 4k either, still running an alienware 3440x1440 so I think I'll probably do ok out of the 50xx series when it laucnhes, might go for a 5080 so I can run setting higher and from what I have read / youtube reviews I don't think it would top out at 3440x1440 at mostly high settings for most of the titles I play.

 

[PaulW]

I'm on a 3080 and none of this generation is what I would call "great"

When has there ever been a generation of cards where only one sku will be faster than the previous generations flagship?

i am on a GTX 1080, and probably need an upgrade. so i am intested in a 50 series. I would have bought a 5080 day one if it came 24gb. but hey, Nvidia thinks everyone has a ten thousand dollar entertainment suite and can afford such luxuries as a 5090.

 

[Kelt]

Even though some were coping against the bleeding obvious, here we go

New Leak Reveals NVIDIA RTX 5080 Is Slower Than RTX 4090

A set of newly leaked benchmarks has revealed the performance capabilities of NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 5080 GPU. Scheduled to launch alongside the RTX 5090 on January 30, the GPU was spotted on Geekbench under OpenCL and Vulkan benchmark tests—and based on the performance, it might not make it...

www.techpowerup.com

But, but, the 5070 is the same as a 4090!?!

Uncle Jensen told us, so it must be true!

Ergo, the 5080 is slower than a 5070!

Just buy the 5070 lads, save yourselves a fortune!

 

[Nitefly]

Even though some were coping against the bleeding obvious, here we go

New Leak Reveals NVIDIA RTX 5080 Is Slower Than RTX 4090

A set of newly leaked benchmarks has revealed the performance capabilities of NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 5080 GPU. Scheduled to launch alongside the RTX 5090 on January 30, the GPU was spotted on Geekbench under OpenCL and Vulkan benchmark tests—and based on the performance, it might not make it...

www.techpowerup.com

Keeps my 4090 price higher so I'm fine with this

It would be a disappointing release for the 5080 to not outperform the 4090 in gaming tbh.

However, I'm not quite sure of the glee as these results seem to suggest that the 5080 absolutely thrashes the 4090 (and 5090) in respect of £££ value....?

Whizzing these together for quick reference...

Geekbench Vulkan:

5080 - 261,836 (100%) <- taken from Tech Power Up
4090 - 267,298 (102%)
5090 - 363,602 (144%)

Geekbench Open CL:

5080 - 260,803 (100%)
4090 - 317,378 (121%)
5090 - 375,439 (144%)

Blender:

The 4090 would be the worst value on the basis of those benchmarks even if you could get it at £1,500 brand new.

But! Let's see how this will all map out to gaming / FPS

 

[kute]

I think this might go down as the worst GPU generation. 5090 is entirely just a 4090ti, it doesn't even feel like it's new, it just feels like a heavily overclocked 4090 and it's going to cost as much as a decent used car. The rest of the stack might be looking at single digit performance increases. This generation is also going to have some dubious firsts, like first 80 series not to beat the old flagship.

Then you have AMD, who are offering a less powerful card than the previous generation, and are so ashamed of it they refuse to acknowledge they've made it, which is just a bizarre way to sell a product lol.

IDK I don't want to be inflammatory or reactionary, but this looks like a generation that would have been better as a 59.99 software patch or something.

 

[mrk]

It's pretty clear the main driving factor for 50 series was AI only, otherwise this could easily have been a 40 series Ti release with DLSS4 on top for the icing on the cake. Nothing about is next gen in terms of hardware, that should be RTX 60.

 

[cliffy]

For me upgrading from 4080 super to 5090 is worth it gaming at 4K.

Genuine question though, everyone seems very happy when a CPU has a 20% performance uplift in a generation, why are GPU's different?

 

[ne0]

Even though some were coping against the bleeding obvious, here we go

New Leak Reveals NVIDIA RTX 5080 Is Slower Than RTX 4090

A set of newly leaked benchmarks has revealed the performance capabilities of NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 5080 GPU. Scheduled to launch alongside the RTX 5090 on January 30, the GPU was spotted on Geekbench under OpenCL and Vulkan benchmark tests—and based on the performance, it might not make it...

www.techpowerup.com

4090 was £1600 at launch and that was 2 years ago.
5080 is £1000 in 2025.

 

[Raiden85]

I think this might go down as the worst GPU generation. 5090 is entirely just a 4090ti, it doesn't even feel like it's new, it just feels like a heavily overclocked 4090 and it's going to cost as much as a decent used car. The rest of the stack might be looking at single digit performance increases. This generation is also going to have some dubious firsts, like first 80 series not to beat the old flagship.

Then you have AMD, who are offering a less powerful card than the previous generation, and are so ashamed of it they refuse to acknowledge they've made it, which is just a bizarre way to sell a product lol.

IDK I don't want to be inflammatory or reactionary, but this looks like a generation that would have been better as a 59.99 software patch or something.

The Geforce FX was the worst generation that they've ever made and that still stands, that generation struggled to even run DX9 when that was new. At least the 5000 series run fine, their biggest issue is price and that goes for the 4000 series, cards were fine, it was just the price letting them down again.

 

[mrk]

4090 was £1600 at launch and that was 2 years ago.
5080 is £1000 in 2025.

Some people here were convinced it would be at least 10% or so faster than the 4090 for a lot less, that was the point.