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ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC against GeForce RTX 5090

GeForce RTX 5090 leads on the overall index. The price beside each button is the Amazon US reading where ScoutPrices has one; the comparison below is worked on typical prices.

Which one for what

Office & everyday

GeForce RTX 5090right

80 vs 100 for snappy single-core speed, quiet running, and a card that drives two or three screens without fuss.

Coding & development

GeForce RTX 5090right

76 vs 100 for cores for builds and containers, plenty of memory, fast storage, and a card for several screens or a local model.

Light gaming

GeForce RTX 5090right

82 vs 100 for 1080p frame rates per dollar.

Gaming

GeForce RTX 5090right

77 vs 100 for 1440p frame rates, with a CPU that will not hold the card back.

Heavy gaming

GeForce RTX 5090right

70 vs 100 for the strongest graphics card the budget allows.

Content creation

GeForce RTX 5090right

75 vs 100 for export times: many cores, a card with good encoders, lots of memory.

3D & rendering

GeForce RTX 5090right

75 vs 100 for all-core throughput and render speed.

Gaming & streaming

GeForce RTX 5090right

76 vs 100 for frame rates with headroom for the encoder and the chat.

AI & local models

GeForce RTX 5090right

67 vs 100 for video memory first, then card speed, then system memory.

Head to head

Scores

Indices out of 100 on ScoutSpecs' own scale, one per kind of work. They are not frames per second and not a measurement of any one sample.

  • Spec score

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 77

    GeForce RTX 5090: 100

    23 ptsto the right

  • Games at 1080p

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 82

    GeForce RTX 5090: 100

    18 ptsto the right

  • Games at 1440p

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 77

    GeForce RTX 5090: 100

    23 ptsto the right

  • Games at 4K

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 70

    GeForce RTX 5090: 100

    30 ptsto the right

  • Rendering and video

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 74

    GeForce RTX 5090: 100

    26 ptsto the right

Price and value

Worked on typical prices, the figures the comparison is built on.

  • Value, points per $100

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 3.6

    GeForce RTX 5090: 2.1

    71%to the left

  • Typical price

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: $2,150

    GeForce RTX 5090: $4,830

    $2,680to the left

From the spec sheets

  • Video memory

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 16 GB

    GeForce RTX 5090: 32 GB

    100%to the right

  • Board power

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 360 W

    GeForce RTX 5090: 575 W

    60%to the left

  • Length

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 358 mm

    GeForce RTX 5090: 330 mm

    8%to the right

The verdict

  • The RTX 5090 is 30% faster at 1440p.
  • At 4K the gap is 43% in the RTX 5090's favour.
  • RTX 5090 carries 32 GB of video memory against 16 GB.
  • The ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC typically costs $2,680 less.
  • Per dollar, the ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC is the better buy: 3.6 points per $100 against 2.1.

Specifications

SpecASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OCGeForce RTX 5090
Video memory16 GB32 GB (better)
Board power360 W (better)575 W
Length358 mm330 mm (better)
Power connector12V-2x6 (16-pin)12V-2x6 (16-pin)
BrandNvidiaNvidia
Released20252025
Typical price$2,150 (better)$4,830

The better figure of each pair is in green, with a tick.

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