Blackwell
NVIDIA RTX 5080 16GB
wins
3
The RTX 5080 is NVIDIA's mid-tier Blackwell consumer GPU with 16 GB GDDR7 and 551 TFLOPS FP16.
Volta
NVIDIA V100 32GB
wins
2
The V100 was NVIDIA's flagship AI GPU before the A100.
Performance comparison
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NVIDIA RTX 5080 16GB
Metric
NVIDIA V100 32GB
FP16 TFLOPS
Bandwidth
VRAM
TDP (lower=better)
TFLOPS/watt
GB/s per watt
Full specification table
| Spec | NVIDIA RTX 5080 16GB | NVIDIA V100 32GB |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Blackwell | Volta |
| VRAM | 16 GB GDDR7 | 32 GB HBM2 |
| VRAM type | GDDR7 | HBM2 |
| Memory bandwidth | 960 GB/s | 900 GB/s |
| FP16 TFLOPS | 551 TFLOPS | 125 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 360 W | 300 W |
| TFLOPS/watt | 1.53 T/W | 0.42 T/W |
| GB/s per watt | 2.67 GB/s/W | 3.00 GB/s/W |
| NVLink | No | Yes |
| Release year | 2025 | 2018 |
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Power efficiency analysis
TFLOPS/watt and GB/s/watt — critical for data center TCO
NVIDIA RTX 5080 16GB
NVIDIA V100 32GB
TFLOPS/watt measures compute efficiency — how much AI throughput you get per watt of power consumed. For data centers with PUE of 1.2–1.5, a 10% improvement in TFLOPS/watt translates directly to lower electricity costs and cooling requirements. GB/s/watt measures memory bandwidth efficiency, which is the binding constraint for memory-bound LLM inference workloads.
When to choose each GPU
Choose NVIDIA RTX 5080 16GB for:
- Small-model inference
- Image generation
- Budget Blackwell compute
Weaknesses / Limitations
- 16 GB VRAM — cannot run 34B+ models
- No NVLink — cannot pool VRAM
- Consumer GPU — no ECC memory or enterprise support
Choose NVIDIA V100 32GB for:
- Legacy ML training
- Budget HPC
- Mature framework support
Weaknesses / Limitations
- Volta architecture — significantly lower TFLOPS than A100 or H100
- 32 GB VRAM ceiling limits modern LLM workloads
- No BF16 support — less efficient for modern transformer training
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