Compute and AI Benchmarks
Now some people don’t need a video card for gaming, they need the processing power for rendering or 2D/3D production, or in some cases, people who game also do work on the side. AI performance importance has increased quickly recently as well. So it is also important to check out the compute and AI performance on all of the video cards that come in. That includes doing a few different tests. To start off our AI tests I ran Geekbench AI, a cross platform AI benchmark that uses real world machine learning tasks giving three results, a full precision score, half precision score, and quantized score. The RTX 5080 Founders Edition is sitting just below the RX 7900 XTX on this chart because it is sorted by the quanitized score, but with the half-precision score that story changes significantly.
Blender is always my favorite compute benchmark because the open-source 3D rendering software is very popular and it isn’t a synthetic benchmark. With the latest version of Blender, they redid the benchmark so we now have a new test that runs three different renderings and gives each a score. I have all three stacked together so we can see the overall performance. The RTX 5080 Founders Edition comes in ahead of the RTX 4080 SUPER and behind the RTX 4090 here with it sitting much closer to the 4080 SUPER than the 4090.
For CUDA-based cards, I also check out V-Ray Benchmark 5 to check out CUDA and RTX performance in the 3D rendering and simulation software. The RTX 5080 Founders Edition is sitting between the RTX 4080 SUPER and the RTX 4090 here once again and like with Blender it is closer to the 4080 SUPER than the RTX 4090 which is way out in front here with its additional VRAM and larger memory interface.