NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition

[W1zzard]

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is out now. Priced at $1000 it includes all the new GeForce RTX 50 features and offers good gaming performance. On the other hand, the gen-over-gen performance increase is smaller than expected, but NVIDIA didn't raise their pricing either.

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[hsew]

Let's bench beyond 4K.

Pls

Pls

I beg

Use DSR

 

[wolf]

Well, not the uplift we wanted, maybe the most interesting card will be the 5070Ti.

 

[Daven]

4080 (Nov 2022) / 4 nm / $1199 / 9728 cores / 2737 MHz avg / 256-bit / 16GB / 304W / 100% perf
4080S (Jan 2024) / 4 nm / $999 / 10240 cores / 2715 MHz avg / 256-bit / 16GB / 302W / 102% perf
5080 (Jan 2025) / 4 nm / $999 / 10752 cores / 2640 MHz avg / 256-bit / 16GB / 325W / 115% perf

Now that’s progress! /s

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Yes, performance is right about where I expected it to be, not bad, but not good either, a next gen 5080 should beat the the previous gen xx90, a shame it's not at a $750 price point though to make improvement on $/performance too, I also expected the thermals to be way better, considering it only has to cool 360W instead of 550W.

Now we just need to find out, if we can actually purchase some of these cards at MSRP.

 

[DBGT]

And he said 5070>4090.
What joke.

Thats what happens when there is no competition.

 

[Cr4zy]

Should be cheaper and it would look good

 

[Chaitanya]

Apart from Intel's Core 200 series here we have another launch with overpromise, overprice and underdeliver.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

And he said 5070>4090.
What joke.

Thats what happens when there is no competition.

No, the "competition" story is bs, AMD showed that with their previous generation, though they weren't even in the same ballpark, they too decided to cash in on the high GPU prices when they could have asked more reasonable prices accordingly, and captured more market share. This market has become a den of thieves.

 

[hsew]

"the way AMD is handling Radeon lately makes me wonder if their discrete GPU brand will still be around in two or three years"

Couldn't agree more, sadly.

 

[Rabit]

Stagnation ...

 

[Ruru]

I don't understand the idea of a modular card instead of everything being on a single PCB like traditional cards.

 

[rv8000]

Yes, performance is right about where I expected it to be, not bad, but not good either, a next gen 5080 should beat the the previous gen xx90, a shame it's not at a $750 price point though to make improvement on $/performance too, I also expected the thermals to be way better, considering it only has to cool 360W instead of 550W.

Now we just need to find out, if we can actually purchase some of these cards at MSRP.

First few weeks yes, then the very very few msrp models will be “oos” and mysteriously never be restocked. $1149-$1299 will be the regular going price range in the US at least.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

First few weeks yes, then the very very few msrp models will be “oos” and mysteriously never be restocked. $1149-$1299 will be the regular going price range in the US at least.

Yeah, it's funny how MSRP models are always only around the first time around and never make a comeback, pffff. As I said, scumbags, all of em.

 

[ErikG]

Very bad card.

 

[Dristun]

 

[mxthunder]

looks like about 12% performance over 4080 at 4K? Better than I was expecting, but still not what it should be. This morning I was guessing 8%.

 

[Asni]

Samsung GDDR7 rating looks conservative, this model made it to 36Gbps and i guess it's just a sw limit as on the 5090.

 

[gridracedriver]

LOL, +1400$ for this in street price, but even at $1000 it would be too much 2 years after the 4080...
Eh Jensen at CES said that the 5070 = 4090 XD

 

[JustBenching]

So - 40% better performance / $ gen on gen. That's pretty good. I remember vividly a couple of days ago people saying that "this is impossible blabla".

 

[Aylimta]

Would be better at a lower price but we all know that's never going to happen..
Maybe I should have got the 4080 super six months ago, considering that it's basically the same product

 

[BigMack70]

It's really sad that the high end GPU market is effectively a monopoly. This is giving me deja vu to the days of CPUs after Sandy Bridge where Intel just gave customers +5-15% performance every generation.

I hope AMD can start competing again so that customers can get meaningful performance and value improvements. Blackwell is a huge disappointment... Just a 40 series super super refresh.

 

[GerKNG]

should be 600€ max.

 

[JustBenching]

It's really sad that the high end GPU market is effectively a monopoly. This is giving me deja vu to the days of CPUs after Sandy Bridge where Intel just gave customers +5-15% performance every generation.

I hope AMD can start competing again so that customers can get meaningful performance and value improvements. Blackwell is a huge disappointment... Just a 40 series super super refresh.

The CPU market is still 5-15% performance per gen. Only prices are going up. The Intel era was actually better, we were still getting 10% but at least prices remained steady, lol

 

[_roman_]

Doa = Dead on Arrival

That idle consumption is awful. The mechanical construction with the power connectors. I do not want to buy something which is a hassle to disassemble.

Igor has the 7800xt in the reviews.

A Radeon 6600xt and 7800xt should be included to see more clearly the slideshow effects of low end entry cards.

Thanks Nvidia - my entry amd graphic card isn't devalued. Thank jooo

Let's hope Amd has no progress so my card keep it' value.

1300 euro is a bargain in this economy. Buy it !