NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Linux GPU Compute Performance
The NVIDIA Linux driver build was working out fine for the various GPU compute benchmarks carried out. At least in the near-term those wanting to use the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series on Linux will want to use the packaged driver stack from NVIDIA. There isn't yet any support by the Nouveau / NOVA driver stacks for Blackwell.
When taking the geometric mean across the various Linux GPU compute benchmarks for this article, the RTX 5080 came out to being about 15% faster than the GeForce RTX 4080... Much less than the 43% improvement with the GeForce RTX 5090 over the RTX 4090. But still if you are on a GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card there can be 1.71x the performance if deciding to upgrade now to this $999 graphics card. Or if holding onto your hardware for many years at a time, the GeForce RTX 5080 was at 3.06x the performance of a GeForce RTX 2080 in these Linux GPU compute benchmarks.
The GeForce RTX 5080 power consumption overall was higher than the RTX 4080 series but not nearly as high as the increase going from the RTX 4090 to RTX 5090.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card design was thermally efficient and in good shape with a 51 degree average under load and a recorded peak of 72 degrees.
👁 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card
That's the initial look at the GPU compute performance for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 on Linux now that the review embargo is lifted. Next week on Phoronix should be the GeForce RTX 5080 / RTX 5090 Linux gaming benchmarks once the new R570 Linux driver is released. Thanks to NVIDIA for providing the RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card for launch-day Linux testing on Phoronix.
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