Test Setup
We are using an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D for testing. We are using the motherboard’s current default BIOS settings on the latest release BIOS. We have enabled PCI-Express Resizable BAR in the motherboard BIOS. We have enabled EXPO I in the BIOS for the memory. We are using a fresh install of Windows 11 Pro with the latest Windows Updates, including the 24H2 update. We have the latest drivers installed including the latest chipset drivers from AMD. We are using the “Balanced” power profile in Windows Settings.
NVIDIA provided a press driver for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, and we are using this driver (572.12) also on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 testing data and GeForce RTX 4080 Super testing data. For the MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G VANGUARD SOC, we are using the official 572.16 released from NVIDIA; there was no difference between the two drivers on performance.