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Can I run Baldur's Gate 3 with a GeForce RTX 5080?

Baldur's Gate 3 starts on a GeForce GTX 1060 6GB. The GeForce RTX 5080 is roughly 10 times that card, and the game defines nothing above ultra for it to reach for.

The GeForce RTX 5080 arrived 2 years after Baldur's Gate 3 shipped, so the game was never designed with it in mind: 17 of the 47 cards we track stop at the same point in Baldur's Gate 3. It sits 3 of 47 on our index.

estimated index 61 · 16 GB · 2025
Ceiling with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 32 GB

Runs at ultra

Clears every tier this game defines.

Headroom
exactly on the line on RAM
Bottleneck
none
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

  1. minimum cleared
  2. recommended cleared
  3. high cleared
  4. ultra cleared

That readout is the best this card can do in Baldur's Gate 3: it assumes nothing else in the machine holds it back. Your own processor and memory can only lower it, never raise it.

The same card with three different processors

In Baldur's Gate 3 the processor beside a GeForce RTX 5080 changes the answer, which is why a card-only verdict is not worth much here. Each row assumes 16 GB of system memory.

Processor Index Verdict Bottleneck
Ryzen 5 1600 30 Will not run processor
Ryzen 9 5900X 70 Runs at high system memory
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 95 Runs at high system memory

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the GeForce RTX 5080 clears that number, red means it does not. The processor and memory columns are yours to fill in with the checker below.

System requirement thresholds for Baldur's Gate 3, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 6 14 22 26 61
CPU index 42 52 62 78 0
Video memory 4 GB 8 GB 8 GB 12 GB 16 GB
System memory 8 GB 16 GB 16 GB 32 GB 0 GB
Storage 150 GB 150 GB 150 GB 150 GB -

The CPU and system memory rows show zero because this page knows the card and nothing else.

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Questions

Will a GeForce RTX 5080 run Baldur's Gate 3?
Baldur's Gate 3 starts on a GeForce GTX 1060 6GB. The GeForce RTX 5080 is roughly 10 times that card, and the game defines nothing above ultra for it to reach for.
Is 16 GB of video memory enough for Baldur's Gate 3?
Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 16 GB of video memory does in Baldur's Gate 3.

More on this card: what the GeForce RTX 5080 runs across every game we track.