microsoft/Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct
14B params · est. 8.4 GB Q4
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB: likely fitNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB: likely fit
Head-to-head
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB
Dedicated comparison page for two real hardware profiles. This is built from your benchmark database, trust metadata, and buyer flow instead of generic spec-sheet comparisons.
Device profile
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB
13B-class Q4 full-GPU at 70+ tok/s — excellent for coding agents on Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B or similar
Curated Aggregate·2026-05-2316GB / $999
Best LLM
165 tok/s
VRAM
16 GB
TDP
360 W
Rating
9.0
Device profile
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB
Compared here against NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB.
Curated Aggregate·2025-08-0916GB / $999
Best LLM
215 tok/s
VRAM
16 GB
TDP
320 W
Rating
9.0
Quick verdict
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB scores 9.0 while NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB scores 9.0 on MyAIHardware's composite rating.
VRAM capacity is tied.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB is the lower-power path.
On shared workload evidence, Llama 3 8B Q4 is benchmarked at 165 tok/s for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB and 102 tok/s for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB.
| Metric | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| MyAI rating | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| Best LLM | 165 tok/s | 215 tok/s |
| VRAM | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| TDP | 360 W | 320 W |
| MSRP | $999 | $999 |
| Workloads | 11 | 10 |
Shared benchmark rows
Llama 3 8B Q4
Llama 3 8B Q4
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB
165 tok/s
Q4_K_M / 16GB / 2026-02-08
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB
102 tok/s
Q4_K_M / 16GB / 2025-08-09
Mistral 7B Q4
Mistral 7B
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB
122 tok/s
Q4_K_M / 16GB / 2025-02-15
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB
118 tok/s
Q4_K_M / 16GB / 2024-06-13
Gemma 2 9B Q4
Gemma 2 9B
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB
105 tok/s
Q4_K_M / 16GB / 2025-02-25
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB
72.0 tok/s
Q4_K_M / 16GB / 2025-03-02
DeepSeek-R1 Distill 7B
DeepSeek-R1 7B
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB
138 tok/s
Q4_K_M / 16GB / 2026-02-20
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB
98.0 tok/s
Q4_K_M / 16GB / 2025-02-15
Qwen 2.5 14B Q4
Qwen 2.5 14B
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB
82.0 tok/s
Q4_K_M / 16GB / 2026-02-22
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB
62.0 tok/s
Q4_K_M / 16GB / 2024-12-13
Whisper Large v3
Whisper transcription
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB
95.0 x RT
FP16 / 16GB / 2026-03-01
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB
64.0 x RT
FP16 / 16GB / 2025-08-01
External quality layer
Best open models likely to fit this class
This shortlist cross-references the external OpenEvals snapshot with an approximate Q4-class VRAM estimate. Use it to sanity-check whether the hardware you are comparing can host strong open models, not just benchmark toy workloads.
91.0
microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
3.8B params · est. 2.3 GB Q4
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB: likely fitNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB: likely fit
internlm/internlm2_5-7b-chat
7.7B params · est. 4.6 GB Q4
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB: likely fitNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB: likely fit
microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
3.8B params · est. 2.3 GB Q4
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB: likely fitNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB: likely fit