RTX 5080 dubbed “overclocking monster” by JayzTwoCents, “it’s like a whole ‘nother tier” with OC
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It’s safe to say that not everyone was too impressed with what the RTX 5080 has to offer. While we praised the card for solid 4K scores in our 5080 FE review, it is hard to ignore the relatively minor uplift when it comes to rasterization performance. It does boast a whole lot of AI-powered boosts – chiefly thanks to Multi Frame Generation – but many consumers want much better native performance.
On the bright side, the 5080 might be saved a little by what seems to be excellent scaling via overclocking. This is something that popular YouTube JayzTwoCents (JTC) has been keen to show off in recent videos, not long after breaking an OC world record with the RTX 5090 using a simple cooling solution.
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- GPU: GB203
- CUDA Cores: 10752
- VRAM: 16GB GDDR7
- Memory Bus width: 256 bit
- Base Clock speed: 2295 MHz
- Boost Clock speed: 2617 MHz
RTX 5080 overclocked brings it closer to the 4090
Looking at JTC’s results for the 5080, it was only 14% faster than the 4080 across the board – and only 11% faster than the 4080 Super. Based on benchmarks like these, it’s easy to see why not everyone seems to be rushing to buy the 5080 (not that there are a lot of them in stock right now). However, overclocking does make a noticeable difference and brings the 5080 closer to a generational improvement you may have expected – close “to 24% when we talk about the uplift when overclocking it” according to the results in the video down below. This helps bring it much closer to the RTX 4090, in comparison to stock clock speeds – JTC describes it as “like a whole another tier GPU up” in a 4K Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty test.
JayzTwoCents makes it almost immediately clear that overclocking performance differs from GPU to GPU – your RTX 5080 may not be able to be pushed as far as theirs. This means there is potentially a huge difference between a ‘dud’ and a ‘golden chip’ as far as overclocking potential goes, so that’s something worth keeping in mind.
Assuming you don’t have a dud chip (one that fails to accept any kind of overclocking), JTC notes that the Founders Edition card “actually has an additional 8% of power limit available to it” on top of the 360W TDP. He says that the FE card they tested was excellent for pushing further with overclocks, even as high as plus 500 MHz – though they opted to settle for 375 as a more modest estimate of what a wider range of RTX 5080s are capable of, both FE and partner cards included. However, if you too can maintain above that 375 frequency rise, you can expect to be competing a little more with the 4090.
The generous uplift possible with this card leads to speculation that Nvidia could be preparing an RTX 5080 Super or 5080 Ti sometime in the future. This was already suggested by previously secured trademarks, though it’s not possible to confirm whether it lies within Nvidia’s plans right now – we’ll have to wait for an official announcement first. Although, considering the large gap between the 5080 and 5090 in terms of specs and performance, there’s certainly room for another SKU. This time we just hope it comes with at least 20GB of VRAM, or 24GB if we’re lucky.