Even though it was the last model of the Blackwell generation, the performance increase compared to the RTX 4080 was not that impressive. Digital Foundry’s testing of Cyberpunk 2077 found that the generation gap was only around 20%.
At 4K resolution and with Overdrive ray tracing enabled, the RTX 5080 produces 17.4 frames per second without using DLSS, while the RTX 4080 achieves 14.8 frames per second. This is only a 17.8% advantage for the new model.
The difference increases when DLSS Performance technology is enabled and frames are rendered, but remains at a modest 18.8%. While RTX 5080 produces 95 frames per second, RTX 4080 produces 80 frames per second.
The most important factor in this outcome was that Blackwell’s architecture merely improved existing technologies and did not introduce radical changes.
For RTX 4080 users, the need to overpay for a new adapter is debatable, especially considering the high cost of the new product.
Source: Ferra
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