Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Review vs RTX 5090/RTX 4090/RTX 4080 Super - Performance Worthy Of The Name?

The RTX 5080 is a strong-performing GPU - to a point. It offers significant value advantages over RTX 4090 and RTX 5090 - but it's nowhere near as fast as either of them. Meanwhile, performance gains over the outgoing RTX 4080 Super are variable but never transformative. DLSS 4 multi frame generation is a nice-to-have feature - but comparisons against RTX 4090 with standard frame-gen show mixed results with latency. Rich has the complete lowdown. A vast range of further benchmarks to explore in our Eurogamer web review: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2025-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5080-review Want some DF-branded tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and various items based on DF lore? Check out our store: https://store.digitalfoundry.net Join the DF Supporter Program for pristine video downloads, behind the scenes content, early access to DF Retro, early access to DF Direct Weekly and much, much more: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvx Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe 00:00 Introduction 02:52 Tech Specs: RTX 5080 vs 4080 Super/4090/5090 04:07 Power/Core Clocks/Performance 06:33 Benchmarks Introduction 07:25 RT Benchmarks: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 09:03 RT Benchmarks: Alan Wake 2 10:09 RT Benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077 11:03 RT Benchmarks: Dying Light 2 11:44 RT Benchmarks: F1 24 12:23 RT Benchmarks: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 13:31 RT Benchmarks: A Plague Tale: Requiem 14:22 Raster Benchmarks: Black Myth: Wukong 15:47 Raster Benchmarks: Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 16:32 Raster Benchmarks: Forza Horizon 5 17:54 Benchmark Summary & Key Differentials 18:58 Path Tracing/'Full RT' Introduction 19:54 DLSS 4: Cyberpunk 2077 21:44 DLSS 4: Alan Wake 2 24:37 RTX 5080 Value Summary 27:04 And Now, The Conclusion