RTX 5080 Benchmarks: Performance Preview Is It a 4090 Killer
Early RTX 5080 benchmarks are here! See how NVIDIA's new card stacks up against the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 in Time Spy, Geekbench Vulkan, and OpenCL.
RTX 5080 Benchmarks: Not Quite the 4090 Killer We Expected Okay, so let's get on with the hype surrounding NVIDIA's RTX 5080. Positioning itself as the successor to the popular RTX 4080, and quite naturally, expectations were high. Would it leapfrog the mighty RTX 4090 in performance? Well, early benchmark numbers are starting to trickle in, and they might just temper those expectations a bit. Time Spy Results: A 10% Gap First, we have the Time Spy benchmark, a well-known synthetic test to determine gaming performance. Results leaked from the Baidu forums put the RTX 5080 at about 32,701 points. Sounds pretty impressive, right? It is until you put that against the RTX 4090. The king of the hill scores about 36,318 points in the same test. That is approximately a 10% difference in performance, with the RTX 4090 still well ahead. GPU Time Spy Score RTX 5080 (Leaked) 32,701 RTX 4090 (Typical) 36,318 Geekbench: Vulkan and OpenCL Tell a Similar Story But moving beyond Time Spy, Geekbench resu…