Re-basing Graphics Cards to Compare with the RTX 5080

Did you check out the new RTX 5080 launch? It is nVidia’s latest $1000 (or $1500) card, meant for those who have $1000-$1500 to spend on a GPU, and do not wish to splurge on the $2800 RTX 5090. It is a good time to be very wealthy!

Getting deeper into RTX 5080 specifics is not the goal for this post, though. That’s what we did last week! Instead, today’s post is about the fact that we will be using the RTX 5080 as the reference for our performance percentages in our main chart from now on, as opposed to the RTX 3080.

Why the Change?

The RTX 3080 was a very powerful card, but it is 5 years old, and no king rules forever. When compared to the new RTX 5080, the older 3080 is only 60% as powerful, making it on-par with today’s $500 cards. Still a great card, but not really the benchmark anymore.

At Logical Increments, we regularly update the “base” for comparison once a new-generation component is sufficiently more powerful. We recently did with with CPUs, and will probably do the same for SSDs sometime later this year.

Going Forward

We are going to change the “Performance vs” section of our GPUs to be based on the new RTX 5080. If you mouse over any GPU in the chart, you should see that we are now comparing it to the new RTX 5080.

If instead you see a blank space or the old RTX 3080, please give us a heads-up in the comment section below; We have nearly 1000 graphics cards in our database, and it is guaranteed that we may have missed a few!

A Note

Since the benchmark GPU has now (roughly) doubled in power, and the lowest iGPUs were already very weak, we have hit 1% power on the absolute weakest iGPUs. Yes, the weakest iGPU is indeed only 1% as powerful as the most powerful new cards; that is not a typo!