ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC vs GeForce RTX 5090

Time Spy renders a fixed scene with tessellation, volumetric lighting, and async compute, then reports a graphics score, a CPU score, and an overall composite.

Score bands (graphics score, desktop)

• Entry 1080p card: 6,000–9,000
• 1440p sweet spot: 12,000–18,000
• 4K-capable: 18,000–25,000
• Halo (RTX 4090, RX 7900 XTX): 28,000+

Why we use it

• Cross-vendor (NVIDIA and AMD score on the same scale).
• Reproducible (locked workload).
• Maps well to actual 1440p frame rates in modern titles — a 25% Time Spy lead typically translates to a 20–25% in-game lead.

Limitations

It does not include ray tracing (Port Royal does) or upscaling. A card with strong rasterization but weak RT can win Time Spy and lose path-traced Cyberpunk.