Seventy-eight pages per second. That is fast enough to chew through a filing cabinet of scanned documents in the time it takes to make a coffee. We benchmarked PaddlePaddle PP-OCRv4 on the NVIDIA RTX 5080 (16 GB VRAM), deployed on a GigaGPU dedicated server. The Blackwell-era shader improvements deliver a noticeable jump in OCR throughput compared to previous-generation cards at this price point.
Speed Test Results
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Pages/sec | 78 pages/sec |
| Latency per page | 12.8 ms |
| Precision | FP16 |
| Pipeline | Det + Rec + Cls |
| Performance rating | Very Good |
Benchmark conditions: FP16 inference, batch size 1, PP-OCRv4 full pipeline (detection + direction + recognition) on A4-format document scans.
Memory Utilisation
| Component | VRAM |
|---|---|
| Model weights (FP16) | 1.2 GB |
| Processing buffer | ~0.4 GB |
| Total RTX 5080 VRAM | 16 GB |
| Free headroom | ~14.8 GB |
PaddleOCR consumes barely a tenth of the available VRAM. The nearly 15 GB of headroom means you can run a 7B LLM in INT4 alongside OCR with room to spare, or batch-process larger documents without worrying about out-of-memory errors. For teams building end-to-end document pipelines, this flexibility matters a lot.
Cost Analysis
| Cost Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Server cost | £0.95/hr (£189/mo) |
| Cost per 1M pages | £3.38 |
| Pages per £1 | 295858 |
The RTX 5080 achieves the lowest cost-per-page of any card in our test suite above 50 pages/sec. It outperforms the RTX 3090 on throughput (78 vs 52 pages/sec) while costing only slightly more per month. If you need production-grade OCR speed at a reasonable price, this is the current sweet spot. Full comparison at all benchmarks.
Ideal Workloads
The 5080 excels at medium-to-high-volume document processing: scanning invoices from multiple suppliers, digitising handwritten forms, or running multilingual OCR across large archives. Its strong pages-per-pound efficiency means you get production-ready performance without stepping up to the 5090’s price tier.
Quick deploy:
docker run --gpus all -p 8866:8866 paddlecloud/paddleocr:latestSee our PaddleOCR hosting guide, best GPU for OCR, and all benchmark results. Related: LLaMA 3 8B on RTX 5080 benchmark.
Deploy PaddleOCR on RTX 5080
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