The RTX 5080 is 7 to 21 percent faster than the RTX 5070 Ti, and the gap grows with resolution: 14 percent at 1080p and 21 percent at 4K in KitGuru's Cyberpunk 2077 runs. At launch it cost $999 against $749, 33 percent more.
They are closer than the names suggest. Both use NVIDIA's GB203 chip with 16GB of GDDR7 on a 256-bit bus; the 5080 has 10,752 shaders to the 5070 Ti's 8,960, slightly faster memory (960 against 896GB/s), and draws 360W against 300W.
RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti
| RTX 5080 | RTX 5070 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $999launch price, Founders Edition (NVIDIA) | $749launch price; no Founders Edition (NVIDIA) |
| GPU | GB203 | GB203 |
| Architecture | Blackwell | Blackwell |
| Shaders | 10752 | 8960 |
| Boost clock | 2620 MHz | 2450 MHz |
| Cyberpunk 20771080p Ultra, fps | 143 | 126 |
| Cyberpunk 20771440p Ultra, fps | 93.5 | 80.9 |
| Cyberpunk 20774K Ultra, fps | 42.6 | 35 |
| Cyberpunk 20771440p Ultra + Ultra RT, fps | 60.3 | 54.1 |
| Alan Wake 21440p Ultra, fps | 76.3 | 67.6 |
| Black Myth: Wukong1440p Very High, fps | 73 | 65.9 |
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Figures as published by Tom's Hardware (Jun 24, 2026). The best figure is marked where a row is all one source.
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Both cards were tested by KitGuru, Tom's Hardware, Blender Open Data and llama.cpp's community; every row is one of them.
RTX 5080 vs RTX 5070 Ti, same test, same lab
| Test and setting | RTX 5080 | RTX 5070 Ti | Ahead | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077, 1080p, Ultra (fps) | 189.6 | 167 | RTX 5080 by 14% | KitGuru |
| Cyberpunk 2077, 1440p, Ultra (fps) | 131 | 112 | RTX 5080 by 17% | KitGuru |
| Cyberpunk 2077, 1440p, Ultra + Ultra RT (fps) | 60.3 | 54.1 | RTX 5080 by 11% | Tom's Hardware |
| Cyberpunk 2077, 4k, Ultra (fps) | 64.9 | 53.5 | RTX 5080 by 21% | KitGuru |
| Cyberpunk 2077, 4k, Ultra + Path Tracing, DLSS Performance (fps) | 53.9 | 44.9 | RTX 5080 by 20% | KitGuru |
| Alan Wake 2, 1440p, Ultra (fps) | 76.3 | 67.6 | RTX 5080 by 13% | Tom's Hardware |
| Black Myth: Wukong, 1440p, Very High (fps) | 73 | 65.9 | RTX 5080 by 11% | Tom's Hardware |
| Counter-Strike 2, 1440p, High (fps) | 469.8 | 429.1 | RTX 5080 by 9% | Tom's Hardware |
| Fortnite, 1440p, High (Lumen + Nanite High) (fps) | 115.7 | 108.3 | RTX 5080 by 7% | Tom's Hardware |
| llama.cpp, Llama 2 7B Q4_0, prompt processing (tok/s) | 8,297 | 6,952 | RTX 5080 by 19% | llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub) |
| llama.cpp, Llama 2 7B Q4_0, text generation (tok/s) | 182 | 176.8 | RTX 5080 by 3% | llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub) |
| UL Procyon AI Text Generation, Llama 3.1 (points) | 4,680 | 4,345 | RTX 5080 by 8% | KitGuru |
| Blender Benchmark (samples/min) | 9,138 | 7,589 | RTX 5080 by 20% | Blender Open Data |
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Games
At 1440p on Tom's Hardware's testbed the 5080 leads by 13 percent in Alan Wake 2 (76.3 against 67.6 fps), 11 percent in Black Myth: Wukong, 9 percent in Counter-Strike 2 and 7 percent in Fortnite. KitGuru's Cyberpunk 2077 figures show the gap growing with pixels: 14 percent at 1080p, 17 percent at 1440p and 21 percent at 4K (64.9 against 53.5 fps). With path tracing and DLSS Performance at 4K it is 53.9 against 44.9 fps.
Work and AI
Blender renders 20 percent faster on the 5080. For local language models the two are closer than in games: llama.cpp text generation is only 3 percent apart (182 against 177 tokens a second), since both have the same 16GB and similar memory bandwidth. The 5080 adds nothing in model size.
Which one to buy
Buy the RTX 5070 Ti for 1440p, and for local AI. It is within about 10 percent of the 5080 in most games at that resolution, for 25 percent less money, with the same 16GB.
Buy the RTX 5080 for 4K or a high-refresh 1440p monitor where the last 15 to 20 percent matters, and make sure your power supply is 850W.
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