GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (44/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 27)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 44)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 27.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 44.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 35666 75605
Night Raid 115542 199650
Port Royal 9109 23275
Solar Bay 64022 161489
Time Spy 14655 33000
Wild Life Extreme 29561 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 146 239
1080p Ultra 122 205
1440p Ultra 92 165
4K Ultra 54 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 1241178556 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 25319314081 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 112966330 21319213861
Far Cry 6 13212210161 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 1501018965 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 92796136 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 101856536 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 17116112063 306276214111
The Witcher 3 17514210455 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 31856 69068
Face Detection (HP) 39785 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 8213 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 19891 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17598 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 4192 7905
Object Detection (SP) 10444 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 84003 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 207773 349205
Text Classification (SP) 2062 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 211 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 8.1 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 141.3 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.46 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.22 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 6.24 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 16980.5 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 627.3 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU102 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 9900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released September 27, 2018 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 3080 Ti —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1350 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1545 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 68 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 5632KB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 68 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 88 112
Shading Units 4352 10752
Tensor Cores 544 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 272 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 352-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 11 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 193 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 83 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 926 1397
GPU Compute 9831 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 754 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 250 W 360 W
Transistor Count 18 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 23.87 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 136 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 420 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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