NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB Founders Edition

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 is one of the first consumer graphics cards in the GeForce RTX 50 Series, which is based on the Blackwell architecture. While this model brings only a modest increase in raw performance over the RTX 4080, and sports the same amount of VRAM as its predecessor, it does include several major feature upgrades. There are improved video encoding and decoding capabilities, with added support for 4:2:2 chroma subsampling, as well as new generations of CUDA, tensor, and ray tracing cores. Although still only equipped with 16GB of VRAM, this card does benefit from brand-new, high-speed GDDR7 memory. For detailed performance info across a wide range of professional applications, check out our RTX 5080 Content Creation Review.

This Founders Edition of the RTX 5080 use a multi-fan cooling layout, very similar to the RTX 5090 FE. That is a great approach for keeping these cards cool and quiet, but it is somewhat overkill considering how much less power they use. Thankfully, the cooler that both of these FE series cards use is relatively small at just 2-slots wide.

Finally, in regards to connectivity, there are one HDMI 2.1a and three DisplayPort 2.1 plugs supporting a total of up to four displays at a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 (8K).