ASUS - ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC vs NVIDIA - GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

The ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC is the clear pick on raw spec strength, leading by 9.0 points on the Mars Score. The margin is wide enough that the underdog only makes sense if its individual strengths line up with what you specifically need.

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, cuda / stream cores, ray tracing cores, among others.

Pick the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER if you care most about tdp. Its strongest claims are tdp.

Both ship with comparable vram, memory bus, dlss, 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.