by NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5080 managed to score 32,701 points in the time spy, which is about 10% lower than the score delivered by the RTX 4090.
RTX 5080 disappoints in synthetic tests, incredibly slower than RTX 4090 in Vulkan and OpenCL tests on Geekbench
If you think the RTX 5090 isn’t as impressive as we expected, the RTX 5080 is here to disappoint you even further. Unlike the first, although the RTX 5080 aims to replace the RTX 4080, it is not supposedly the RTX 4090. Usually, Nvidia’s generational uplifts are not enough for the 80-class cards to take over the 90-class to achieve the 90-class GPUs to take over, but this time it can’t happen.
Surely we’ll need some solid gaming testing to confirm this, but the leaked synthetic benchmarks reveal the RTX 5080’s True Prowess. We just saw the latest RTX 5080 benchmarks on two platforms: Geekbench and 3DMark. Thanks to @olrak29_, who saw the screenshot on Baidu forums revealing the RTX 5080’s early benchmark in Time Spy.
According to the screenshot, the GPU scored 32,701 pointswhich is noticeably lower than the RTX 4090’s score 36,318 points. This is a solid one 10% Difference in performance, which goes against the generational overrides we had with the RTX 4080 over the RTX 3090 and RTX 3090 Ti. It gets worse when we consider the GPU Geekbench results.
While Geekbench results are generally inaccurate, they are a decent source for knowing the raw power of GPUs. A user with a configuration including a Ryzen 7 9800X3D paired with GeForce RTX 5080 tested the GPU in both Vulkan and OpenCL tests. Although there are a few more benchmarks with the same GPU, we picked up the best scores. In the Vulkan test, the RTX 5080 scored 281,746 points and about 278,138 points In OpenCl.
Now compare this to the RTX 4090 GPU when we run a similar configuration, using the Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU. A recent result shows that the RTX 4090 delivers 365,013 Points in Vulkan and 337,319 Points in OpenCL tests. This is a huge one 23% difference in volcano and 17.6% in OpenCL benchmarks between the RTX 5080 and RTX 4090.
Nowthe RTX 5080 comes out victorious compared to the RTX 4080, but the difference isn’t that big. The RTX 4080 with Ryzen 7 9800X3D setup delivers 259403 Points in Vulkan and 254,007 Points in OpenCL tests. This brings about an 8% and 9% improvement over the RTX 4080, which doesn’t look too good. However, let’s wait for some more reliable benchmarks, especially gaming, that will show us the true potential of the RTX 5080.
News sources: Geekbench Vulkan, Geekbench OpenCL, Baidu
