Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review: performance worthy of the name?
RT benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Cyberpunk 2077.
2025 sees the latest revision of our GPU test suite, with new and returning games that we've retrofitted with custom benchmarks to highlight stress points. The selection includes many titles that we've highlighted as offering the best graphics in gaming, and for a flagship-grade card like the RTX 5090 we have no qualms about choosing extremely demanding settings.
We begin with a selection of ray tracing titles, as this typically offers the toughest test of a modern graphics card and use of RT continues to ramp up as we proceed throughout the 2020s. On this page, we have three games famed for their environments - the temperate forests of Alan Wake 2, the jungles of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and the city streets of Cyberpunk 2077.
If this is the first time you're seeing a Digital Foundry graphics card review on Eurogamer, our benchmarking system deserves a short introduction. On mobile devices you'll see simple performance tables for each graphics card and resolution we tested, while on desktop-class browsers you'll get an embedded YouTube video and animated bar chart. Click play on the video to see our test scene unfold with live metrics, or mouse over the bar chart to see the various measurements. You can also click on the bar chart to change from absolute frame-rate readings to percentages.
Alan Wake 2
Alan Wake 2, High, Low RT
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Ultra Settings
Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077, Psycho RT
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Analysis
- Introduction
- RT benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Cyberpunk 2077 [This Page]
- RT benchmarks: Dying Light 2, F1 24, Hitman: World of Assassination
- RT benchmarks: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Game benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Black Myth: Wukong, Cyberpunk 2077
- Game benchmarks: F1 24, Forza Horizon 5, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2
- Game benchmarks: Hitman: World of Assassination, A Plague Tale: Requiem
- DLSS 4 and Path Tracing: Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake 2
- Conclusions, value and recommendations