Designed for the ultimate gaming experience, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 GPU features DirectX 12 Ultimate to ensure it is compatible with all modern games. In anticipation of next-gen games, it also supports hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading, and more. The GB203-400-A1 variant of the GB203 processor delivers 45,600 million transistors, plus 10,752 shading units, 336 texture mapping units, and 128 Render Output Units or ROPs. It has 4th generation Ray Tracing cores and 5th generation Tensor Cores. Outfitted with DLSS 4, it offers superior graphics rendering performance compared to just the previous generation.
With a Thermal Design Power (TDP) rating of up to 360W, the card features active cooling with two large fans. Suggested PSU output for the host system is listed at 850W and the card occupies a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot and requires a 16-pin power connector. It features a base frequency of 2295 MHz and can be boosted to 2617 MHz, with memory running at 1875 GHz or 30Gb/s effective. It has 4x ports to connect monitors, including 1x HDMI 2.1b and 3x DisplayPort 2.1b.