It’s the second most powerful graphics card NVIDIA has on the market, but how does the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER stack up against the PS5? Those of you who read us daily already know that Sony console GPUs have a level of performance that generally It is usually comparable to Radeon RX 6600although it is important to note that this may change slightly depending on each game and its optimization.

With that in mind, it would be easy to make a relative performance comparison and determine the difference that exists in this battle between the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER and the PS5, since we know how the former performs and how the Radeon RX 6600 performs. The approximate difference would be 316%That means the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER would be more than three times more powerful than Sony’s console GPU, right?But is the difference really that big?

The video analysis shared by the DigitalFoundry team confirms this and in a very clear way. GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Outpaces PS5 GPU performance by 320% in A Plague Tale: Requiem using DLSS 2 in quality mode. Of course, with DLSS 3 frame generation, the difference would be even greater and the fps difference would be 390%.

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER performs in Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty 300% better than PS5 with FSR 2 in quality mode and with DLSS 2 in quality mode, the difference increases to 320%. It also shows what I have told you many times, that these scaling technologies do not scale in the same way and that they do not offer the same value in games. Again, if we activate DLSS 3 (frame generation), the difference in smoothness becomes much greater.

Alan Wake 2 is another one of the most challenging games out there right now, and it’s a problem for the PS5 that has to rstraighten it to 1270p and upscale it to 2160p, all with a quality mode that ranges between medium and high. With that configuration It is not able to maintain a stable 30 FPS. The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is 310% faster with DLSS 2 enabled in Balanced mode, and the difference increases with frame rate. On the PS5, it is normal to play at less than 30 FPS, and with the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, the game moves at more than 90 FPS.

We also have to take into account something very important, which is that the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER generally has high-end technology and is able to actually move ray tracing and path tracing in games, something the PS5 GPU can’t do even at very low settings and at a very limited quality level.

Remember e.g. the gruesome ray tracing that Capcom introduced in Devil May Cry 5or the huge impact this technology has on any PS5-compatible game, such as Dying Light 2, which only applies it to shadows and ambient occlusion, reducing the resolution to 1080p with a frequency of 30 FPS.