HALF THE MONEY for half the GPU. We give you the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, the second coming of Nvidia’s Blackwell series, and by most measures an RTX 5090 sliced in half. It’s also uncomfortably similar to the last-gen RTX 4080 Super.
You get just five percent more cores than the RTX 4080 Super, with 10,752 in total. Despite rocking the same TSMC custom N4 lithography, it’s actually the smaller chip, if only by a smidge. There are 45.6 billion transistors inside GB203, where there are 45.9 billion inside the older AD103 chip.
Meanwhile, it’s the same 16GB of VRAM and 256-bit memory bus here as the RTX 4080 cards, except this time it’s GDDR7 instead of GDDR6X running at 30Gbps versus at best 23Gbps for the previous Ada cards. So there’s a fair chunk more memory bandwidth available, at least.