Early benchmark test results suggest that the RTX 5080 sits below the RTX 4090. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

In the Vulkan test, it scored 261,836 points. This is about 22% better than the RTX 4080. Not bad, right? But in OpenCL it scores 256,138 points, just a 6.7% improvement.

Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at the GPUs’ software benefits through DLSS 4.

Leaked Blender benchmark results show the RTX 5080 only delivering an 8% uplift in performance over the RTX 4080 Super.

The RTX 5090 is coming first and in less than two weeks we'll know just how fast it is in third party benchmark reviews

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 starts at $1,999 before you factor in upsells from the company's partners or price increases driven by scalpers and/or genuine demand. It costs more than my entire gaming PC.