Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 benchmark leak highlights varying degrees of performance improvement

Now that the GeForce RTX 5090 has been scrutinized with a fine-tooth comb (read out review here), it is time to shift focus to the next Blackwell GPU: GeForce RTX 5080. Along with slightly more CUDA cores, it gets 16 GB of GDDR7 VRAM, which, according to Nvidia's own testing, doesn't offer much in the way of raw performance uplift- at least without DLSS and other trickery. Now we get a glimpse at how the GeForce RTX 5080 fares in Geekbench and Blender.

In Geekbench's OpenCL benchmark, it scores 256,138 points. That represents a paltry 3% uplift over the GeForce RTX 4080, which averages at 247,392 points in our benchmark database. Thankfully, the GeForce RTX 5080 fares better in Vulkan with a scored of 261,836 for a 37% increase over its last-gen counterpart (190,888). The latter confirms its 2.6 GHz boost clock and that there is no throttling. Moving on to Blender, the RTX 5080 averages at 9063.77 points, making it about 10% faster than the RTX 4080 (8286.35).

Overall, the GeForce RTX 5080 doesn't seem to offer much in the way of a meaningful uplift. Its laptop counterpart, on the other hand, fares much better.