The best argument for grabbing a 5080 right now, if you can find one at $999 in the first place, is that the only cards that come close to its performance are either way more expensive than they're supposed to be (the 4080 Super) or not cheap enough to justify the Nvidia-specific features you give up (AMD's Radeon 7900 XTX).

It’s disappointing to see Nvidia has stuck with 16GB of VRAM on the RTX 5080. AMD’s RX 7900 XTX offers 24GB, and while the RTX 5080 delivers better performance for now, it may well hit video memory limits in 4K gaming in the future.

I spent a week extensively testing the RTX 5080, and overall it's the best premium graphics card for most people you can get right now.

But then, neither is it a blood-boiler like the RTX 4080, nor a largely aspirational show-off piece like the RTX 5090. By maintaining the 4080 Super’s course correction on price while tooling up on compelling DLSS 4 improvements,

T he Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 is an odd graphics card. It’s only a bit faster than its predecessor, the RTX 4080 Super, but it’s also significantly cheaper (for now), launching

Digital Foundry tests the GeForce RTX 5080. On this page: we introduce our test system, benchmarking methodology and initial impressions.

The Nvidia RTX 5080 cannot match up to the raw processing of a RTX 5080, but with multi frame gen it's a card you can't ignore.