Nvidia 5080 in VR - initial thoughts

[Qcumber]

8 hours ago, Danoliver1 said:

You can easily overclock the 5080 to be almost as fast as a 4090.

Yes. Particularly since the 576 driver update. I get a 10-11% boost over stock. And a 16-17% boost over 572 stock speeds. 

 

Edited April 27 by Qcumber

[Koziolek]

Unfortunately 576 driver does nothing for me apart from frequent black screens 

 

BTW I read that the only gain is in Steel Nomad. In games it does nothing, maybe 1 fps

[Qcumber]

14 minutes ago, Koziolek said:

Unfortunately 576 driver does nothing for me apart from frequent black screens 

 

BTW I read that the only gain is in Steel Nomad. In games it does nothing, maybe 1 fps

I have just compared 272 vs 276 in Firestrike extreme. There is no overall difference except in the physics test. 

5080 (272)	40404	45765	38136	22583
5080 (276)	40804	45609	41343	22549
	101%	100%	108%	100%

 

 

[Qcumber]

And in game test shows no difference either. Green is 276. Blue is 272. This is an F-16 flight low over Cairo. 

[Rainer_B.]

On 4/25/2025 at 12:12 PM, Qcumber said:

I would wait for the 5080ti. Unless you manage to get an MSRP 5080 and sell your 4080 for a similar price. 

and they are still waiting and waiting. I got a MSI 5080 for retail, my 3080 12G will go in my second PC and the old 2070 Super will make a Friend very happy. You buy when you need it or you will never buy a Thing.

[Qcumber]

4 minutes ago, Rainer_B. said:

and they are still waiting and waiting. I got a MSI 5080 for retail, my 3080 12G will go in my second PC and the old 2070 Super will make a Friend very happy. You buy when you need it or you will never buy a Thing.

That's what I did. Managed to get an FE for £949. But then I was upgrading from a 4070.

[Aapje]

2 hours ago, Rainer_B. said:

and they are still waiting and waiting. I got a MSI 5080 for retail, my 3080 12G will go in my second PC and the old 2070 Super will make a Friend very happy. You buy when you need it or you will never buy a Thing.

That's not true, you can delay or hasten your upgrade based on the situation. Part of being a smart consumer is recognizing the time to strike.

That said, the 5080 is not a bad card to buy right now, aside from the pricing that may keep improving over the coming months. It has enough VRAM. But anything below a 5080 is not good, and there's a lot to be said to wait for a likely Super-version with more VRAM.

[Hempstead]

Yippee! I got my hands on a 9950X3D at MSRP, sorta! All I had to do is flew to Taiwan, walked into the first shop off the escalator in the infamous/famous KwangHwa Market and asked about it.
 

OK OK, I have some business to do in Taiwan. So I thought I’d give it a shot. That market hasn’t disappointed me since the 80’s.

 

With the RTX 5080 I already have, I can finally start ordering other parts for the new gaming rig.

[whitav8]

Qcumber,

   Could you please confirm which versions(s) of XRFrametools you use - one for capture and possibly second for conversion to CSV.

Thanks much!

[Qcumber]

1 hour ago, whitav8 said:

Qcumber,

   Could you please confirm which versions(s) of XRFrametools you use - one for capture and possibly second for conversion to CSV.

Thanks much!

The latest version of XRFrametools has now corrected the issue with exporting individual frames data so you should now only need one version. I have updated the VR benchmark methods thread to reflect this. Also an updated spreadsheet to correct some errors and add a VRAM chart. 

https://github.com/fredemmott/XRFrameTools/releases/tag/v0.2.0

 

 

 

 

[Qcumber]

The 5080 seems to particularly shine in VR (with racing sims at least). 

 

 

[Hempstead]

Finally got all the parts of my 9950X3D + PNY RTX-5080 OC + 128GB RAM machine, brought it up and seemed stabilized. And got some DCS modules installed with minimal setup. Jumped into an F-16 on both Mariana and NTTR maps.

Texture and Terrain Texture both set high, DLSS on, QuadView on…. Quest Pro device res. set to the highest, 90Hz, PD 1.0. Got pretty much 90fps all around.

Have not done much testings yet, like with a lot of explosions, AH64, F-4E etc. yet. But, the first impression is very smooth and very little to no stuttering.

[Hempstead]

On 4/29/2025 at 6:41 AM, Aapje said:

That's not true, you can delay or hasten your upgrade based on the situation. Part of being a smart consumer is recognizing the time to strike.

That said, the 5080 is not a bad card to buy right now, aside from the pricing that may keep improving over the coming months. It has enough VRAM. But anything below a 5080 is not good, and there's a lot to be said to wait for a likely Super-version with more VRAM.

And the news/rumor making the round is that Nvidia might be increasing the prices of gfx cards! Not sure how true that is, but the PNY 5080 OC card I got for MSRP is now listed by the same retailer for USD$200 more than I paid.