Nvidia RTX 5080 Review: Efficiency Gains, Performance Letdown

Starfield is a 2023 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Announced in 2018, Starfield was delayed several times. The game was released for Windows and Xbox Series X/S on September 6, 2023. (Wikipedia).

Engine: Creation Engine 2. We test using the Ultra preset, with 100% resolution scale, dynamic resolution disabled, DX12 API.

Starfield is another title that doesn't seem to scale particularly well on Blackwell GPUs, we're looking at just a 5% gain for the 5080 over the 4080 Super at 1440p, while it's 20% slower than the 4090.

At 4K, the 5080 does claw back some performance, now coming in 8% faster than the 4080 Super, with an average frame rate of 64fps. It's once again 33% slower than the 5090 here.

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