ASUS - ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC vs NVIDIA - GeForce RTX 5080

The ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC edges ahead on the Mars Score (78.7 vs 71.9), but the 6.8-point gap is small enough that the right pick comes down to which spec advantages matter to you.

Pick the ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC if you push the hardware — gaming, on-device AI, heavy multitasking — and the extra compute headroom is worth the trade-offs. The biggest gaps in its favor are 3dmark time spy, boost clock.

The GeForce RTX 5080 similarly doesn't carry a headline advantage on the popular specs — look at the full table for category-specific deltas.

Both ship with comparable vram, cuda / stream cores, memory bus, so those specs don't separate the two — focus on the differences below.

Bottom line: the ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC is the safer default. The other model is the right choice only when its specific advantages line up with your priorities.