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Nvidia RTX 5080 vs 4080: What’s new?
Feb 22, 2025
Earlier this year, Nvidia unveiled its highly-anticipated RTX 50 graphics cards. Here’s how the new Nvidia RTX 5080 compares to the last generation RTX 4080.
Like the rest of the RTX 50 series, the RTX 5080 is based on the new Blackwell architecture and brings some major performance improvements and AI enhancements, including DLSS 4.
Keep reading to discover how the RTX 5080 compares to the RTX 4080 or head to our Nvidia RTX 5090 vs 5080 guide to learn how the RTX 5080 stands up to the top-of-the-range RTX 5090.
RTX 5080RTX 4080
Nvidia architectureBlackwellAda Lovelace
DLSSDLSS 4DLSS 3
AI TOPS1801780
Tensor cores5th gen4th gen
4th gen3rd gen
Memory configuration16GB GDDR712/16GB GDDR6X
Memory bandwidth960 GB/sec717 GB/sec
Price
The Nvidia RTX 5080 was announced on January 6 2025 and was officially released on January 30. Prices for the GPU start at $999/£979 for 16GB of memory.
The Nvidia RTX 4080 was announced two years earlier on January 3 2022. The GPU hit stores on February 8, with prices starting at $899/£949 for the 12GB model and $1199/£1269 for the 16GB one.
The Nvidia RTX 5080 is twice as fast
The Nvidia RTX 5080 is doubly as fast as its predecessor playing games. This is thanks to several upgrades, including Nvidia’s latest Blackwell architecture, the addition of DLSS 4 and the GPU’s increased memory bandwidth.
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