Did you take a look at the brand new RTX 5080 launch? It’s nVidia’s newest $1000 (or $1500) card, meant for many who have $1000-$1500 to spend on a GPU, and don’t want to splurge on the $2800 RTX 5090. It’s a good time to be very rich!
Getting deeper into RTX 5080 specifics just isn’t the purpose for this put up, although. That’s what we did final week! As an alternative, at present’s put up is about the truth that we will likely be utilizing the RTX 5080 because the reference for our efficiency percentages in our most important chart any further, versus the RTX 3080.
Why the Change?
The RTX 3080 was a really highly effective card, however it’s 5 years outdated, and no king guidelines perpetually. When in comparison with the brand new RTX 5080, the older 3080 is simply 60% as highly effective, making it on-par with at present’s $500 playing cards. Nonetheless an awesome card, however probably not the benchmark anymore.
At Logical Increments, we repeatedly replace the “base” for comparability as soon as a new-generation part is sufficiently extra highly effective. We lately did with with CPUs, and can most likely do the identical for SSDs someday later this 12 months.
Going Ahead
We’re going to change the “Efficiency vs” part of our GPUs to be based mostly on the brand new RTX 5080. For those who mouse over any GPU in the chart, you must see that we at the moment are evaluating it to the brand new RTX 5080.
If as a substitute you see a clean house or the outdated RTX 3080, please give us a heads-up within the remark part under; Now we have almost 1000 graphics playing cards in our database, and it’s assured that we might have missed a couple of!
A Word
Because the benchmark GPU has now (roughly) doubled in energy, and the bottom iGPUs have been already very weak, we have now hit 1% energy on absolutely the weakest iGPUs. Sure, the weakest iGPU is certainly just one% as highly effective as probably the most highly effective new playing cards; that isn’t a typo!
