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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

NVIDIA · Blackwell · RTX 50MSRP $999

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is NVIDIA’s flagship-tier Blackwell card aimed at 4K gaming with ray tracing. It scores 100/100 on our 1440p gaming index. 16 GB of VRAM comfortably handles modern texture budgets. Ray-tracing performance is genuinely usable, not just a checkbox. Supports DLSS 4 for upscaling.

100/100

1440p gaming index

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CORE SPECS

VRAM
16 GB
VRAM BANDWIDTH
960 GB/s
BASE CLOCK
2295 MHz
BOOST CLOCK
2617 MHz
TDP
360 W
FP32
56.3 TFLOPS
RAY TRACING TIER
5 / 5
DLSS / FSR
DLSS 4, Multi Frame Generation

PERFORMANCE INDEX

1080p gaming
100/100
1440p gaming
100/100
4K gaming
100/100
Productivity
100/100
AI / compute
100/100

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