Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080: First benchmarks confirm and surprise

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It has been known for weeks that the GeForce RTX 4090 (test) offers tremendous performance. The situation with the little sister, the RTX 4080, is still unclear. After the first manufacturer benchmarks already indicated a huge gap to the Ada Lovelace flagship, there are now further benchmarks.

Since these are unconfirmed rumors or previously leaked information and the RTX 4080 will not go on sale until next week, the usual caution is required when interpreting the results: Nothing has to be right and a lot can still change – especially since the two benchmark results paint a different picture and these are synthetic tests anyway and not measurements in games.

In Geekbench is the distance to the RTX 4090 is large

First of all, there is a Geekbench V5 run published by Twitter user @BenchLeaks, in which the alleged GeForce RTX 4080 achieves an OpenCL score of 248,932 points. The CUDA score is 300,728 points and in the case of the Vulkan API, the graphics card achieves a result of 138,838 points. The test system is said to have consisted of an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X on an Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme, which was supported by 32 GB of RAM.

The classification to other GeForce GPUs, which VideoCardz illustrates with the help of a table, is interesting. According to this, the alleged GeForce RTX 4080 is almost 46 percent ahead of the RTX 3080 in the CUDA benchmark; in the Vulkan benchmark, the lead shrinks to just under 30 percent. The lead to the RTX 3090 Ti is only 5 to 15 percent, depending on the API. The RTX 4090 dances out of line, leading the field in each of the three benchmarks by a decent margin.

GeForce graphics cards in Geekbench V5 (Image: VideoCardz)

These results match the image, which Nvidia has so far drawn with its own benchmarks. According to this, the GeForce RTX 4080 usually beats the Ampere flagship RTX 3090 Ti by 10 to 15 percent in games in UHD, while only the RTX 4090 makes a generation leap and works significantly faster.

Halfway in Time Spy

The first alleged 3DMark results of the RTX are all the more surprising 4080 shared by Twitter user @Zed__Wang aka MEGAsizeGPU. In Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme, the Nvidia GPU achieves 22,530 and 11,131 points, respectively. The graphics scores are 28,599 and 14,178 points.

GeForce RTX 4080 in 3DMark Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme (Image: @Zed__Wang)

The results are around 50 percent higher than those achieved by a GeForce RTX 3080 on average in the two benchmarks and are therefore a good deal higher than the values ​​of an RTX 3090 Ti. The gap to the RTX 4090 remains considerable – the top model is around 25 to 35 Percent in the front – but if the 3DMark results are confirmed on November 16th, the RTX 4080 would be almost halfway in the gap between the RTX 3090 Ti and the RTX 4090, contrary to the manufacturer benchmarks and Geekbench V5 results.

Comparison of the Time Spy Graphics scores of different graphics cards (Image: VideoCardz)

The same user also provided a comparison of the two Ada Lovelace graphics cards in the arcade racing game Forza Horizon 5, with the RTX 4090 being just under 20 percent ahead of its little sister. However, this is probably due to a limitation on the part of the CPU – an AMD Ryzen 7600X is used. ComputerBase was even able to show when comparing the more powerful Ryzen 7950X and an Intel Core i9-13900K that the RTX 4090 can still identify performance differences between the two top models.

Clarity is only given with extensive tests

The originally planned second GeForce RTX 4080 with 12 GB memory has meanwhile been canceled – so the more powerful RTX 4080 with 16 GB will remain the only graphics card in said vacuum at least until December 13; then Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT appear. Both at the start of the RTX 4080 and the new AMD graphics cards, ComputerBase will come up with the usual extensive tests and benchmarks in due course.