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RTX 5080 - premature review - it sucks

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Guess you live in murica - in the rest of the world it's more than 3k. Utterly insane pricing.

Yeah..
Its only 2K here if you get insanely lucky and find it in the microsecond it is in stock somewhere, otherwise its moot because scalpers are charging 3K+ lol
 
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Yeah..
Its only 2K here if you get insanely lucky and find it in the microsecond it is in stock somewhere, otherwise its moot because scalpers are charging 3K+ lol

Store prices starts at 3.5k in eu.
 
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Just FYI, every game that is unoptimized on pc runs like complete crap on consoles as well. We are talking about 640p and below res and 15 to 20 fps. Jedi survivor forspoken etc.
Games do not run that bad on the consoles.
Not even in your cherrypicked examples.

Forspoken's worst drops were to around 20 fps, in its quality mode that targets 30 fps. In its Performance mode that targets 60 fps, it drops to around 45 fps at lowest.

Quality Mode upscales to 4K, Performance upscales to 1440P.

The upscaling it uses is dynamic, so the resolution varies on the demand, but at its absolute lowest, it is 50%. ie. The lowest resolution it EVER upscales from is 720P, and that is in the mode that is a locked 60 fps in most areas, and is above 45 fps even in the very worst case scenarios.

The Quality mode, that sometimes drops as low as 1080P internally, does drop to 20ish fps in some specific areas, but it is also a locked 30 fps in most of the game.

That data is from this video:


More recent patches made it better than that, but even in its launch state it was nowhere near as bad as you are trying to suggest.
 
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The uplift is 200$ lower price or 16% less cost at 16% better performance 5080 vs 4080. perf$ has certainly improved.
For the first few months it's like this and we have people who are paid to sit in line and then sell for a profit. The society is broken what can we do.
Why does everybody compare to the 4080 like the 4080 Super never existed? It doesn't make any sense to me.

The uplift vs the 4080 Super in both performance and price is zero.
 
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I can't comprehend why anyone would buy a 5080... get a 2nd hand 4090 instead, way better value...
Debateable. I've seen used 4090's still selling for over $1800.
 
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Debateable. I've seen used 4090's still selling for over $1800.

It obviously depends on the market in your specific country... both for the price on the 5080, and 2nd hand price on 4090. But i reckon 2nd hand price on 4090 will go up after this sh1t show launch.
 
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Why does everybody compare to the 4080 like the 4080 Super never existed? It doesn't make any sense to me.

The uplift vs the 4080 Super in both performance and price is zero.
The real generation is on a 2 year period track. The real 4080 S inheritor is the 5080 S, but that may never see the light of day as the 3GB chips are 40Gbs, the uplift is substantial.
that hints we're directly heading for 6080.
 
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The real generation is on a 2 year period track. The real 4080 S inheritor is the 5080 S, but that may never see the light of day and the 3GB chips are 40Gbs, the uplift is substantial.
that hints we're directly heading for 6080.
No, those are just model names, totally arbitrary, made up by Nvidia to make them look different. They're not. They're the same architecture, same chip even. If they could sell the Super for a grand, then there was no reason to sell the vanilla 4080 for $200 more other than greed. No comparison should be made to such a bad value card when a better one came out a year later from the same company. It's the Super that we wanted improvement upon this time, not the vanilla 4080.

Edit: You can be sure that a shit ton of Blackwell chips are being reserved for the Super cards coming soon, hence the "shortage". Super is not a new generation, not even a refresh. It's just artificial product segmentation. The illusion of Nvidia giving you more without actually giving you more.

Edit 2: If I make a comparison to last gen, damn right I'll make it to the better card with the better price tag, not the worse one, regardless of the label on the box.
 
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The real generation is on a 2 year period track. The real 4080 S inheritor is the 5080 S, but that may never see the light of day as the 3GB chips are 40Gbs, the uplift is substantial.
that hints we're directly heading for 6080.
The really weird thing is laptops are getting 3 GB chips, but the desktops aren't. 5090 Mobile will be based on the 5080 desktop die, but has 3 GB VRAM chips.
 
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The really weird thing is laptops are getting 3 GB chips, but the desktops aren't. 5090 Mobile will be based on the 5080 desktop die, but has 3 GB VRAM chips.

Margins and volume are higher would be my guess.
 
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