The RTX 5080 Ada Generation is a professional graphics card replacing the RTX 6000 Ada Generation in China. This is NVIDIA’s response to the US sanctions. The reason we’re talking about this card is that Geekbench OpenCL scores for this model are available. What’s more, it is said to share roughly the same computing power as the RTX 5080 (according to the latest rumors). So some people are trying to estimate the performance of the new generation in this way.
RTX 5080 more perf than RTX 4090?
The RTX 4090 is currently the best-performing card on the market. When it was launched, the RTX 4090 showed a clear improvement in performance over the previous generation of cards. However, the question is whether the 5080 can beat the 4090.
Based on the RTX 5880’s score of 345,871 pts, the RTX 4090 has 355,501 pts. The 5880 is therefore around 3% above the RTX 4090, which is no mean feat. The RTX 4080 Super scores 264,806 pts, around 30% lower.
In short, if this card is compared to the future 5080, it’s because it boasts a computing power of 69 TFLOP more or less equivalent to the estimated 64.5 TFLOP of a 5080, assuming its 10,752 cuda core is running at least at 3,000 MHz. What’s more, our colleagues hope that the IPC gains brought about by the blackwell generation will compensate for the difference in computing power and memory between the two models. The RTX 5880 is ahead in these respects.
In our opinion, these are somewhat convoluted estimates, with people trying to tinker with the figures to make them say what they want. Our advice is to wait for more reliable data to find out what’s really going on!
