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RTX 5080 | Review Thread

analog_future

Resident Crybaby
I guess AMD might accidentally be competing on the high-end after all lol.

Their new Radeon cards might legit be pretty fantastic options compared to the 5080
 
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Gaiff

SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
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14% over the 4080. I was expecting an underwhelming 20%, but it's even lower than what I anticipated.
 

Ozriel

M$FT
Really disappointed it isn’t much closer to the 4090. Nvidia’s broken that pattern. Usually you’d expect performance in line with the previous gen flagship.

Only bright spot would be if it makes it easier to snag a 5080FE.
 

Gaiff

SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
The worst part is that RDNA3 is not getting FSR4. So it's stuck with FSR3.1 or XeSS in DP4A.
AMD hasn’t ruled it, so we’ll see, but yeah, the move to the Transformer model is the most exciting one for DLSS users and RDNA3 isn’t invited to the party, so the gap widens further.
 

diffusionx

Gold Member
What a poor product.... this is what happens when a company has such a monopoly.
While I agree that Nvidia mostly sucks ass these days, it's not just the lack of competition. Moore's Law is dead. You can't do a 30% node shrink anymore and add 50% more transistors and get a massive upgrade at the same power consumption and lower price anymore. On the CPU side the past few years, high end performance is being driven by more power usage. The gains just aren't there. It's happening all over the industry. This is the normal going forward. It's time for devs to optimize their UE5 slop because new GPUs aren't going to save them.
 
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Astray

Member
The main problem with this generation, is that it doesn't even move the needle in the price/performance metric.
Not even vram was increased for most skus.
If this is voluntary, then I'm assuming that Nvidia is pulling an Intel and going with a tick-tock design philosophy.


People who purchased the 4090 for $700 must be in heaven
I didn't get mine for that cheap, but I managed to get a brand new high end-one for almost half of what it would ordinarily cost me, tax and shipping included. I didn't plan on making a new build then (was waiting for 5000 series), but for that price I moved the build forward by a year or so.

Remarkably cool card for what it is too.
 

CLW

Member
You mean 4080/S owners. You still don’t have DLSS or better RT, and the difference between FSR and DLSS is about to get even bigger. The 4080 owners get all those benefits.
Yeah shiny puddles and fake frames wooooooooooooo suck it AMD
 

Idleyes

Gold Member
Upgrading to a next-gen GPU should never be a downgrade from the previous generation, never.

Nvidia:

Upgrade your 4090 to our Founder edition 5080!

Everybody:

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SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
4% standard rasterization
5% ray tracing performance

I cant. This is the worst product launch of all time.

Jensen has no shame. Just release it for cheaper. its basically the same exact card from 2 years ago. You should be able to bring costs down and release it for a few hundred dollars cheaper. But no, greed is good. He probably wants more hookers on his $500 million yacht.
 

FingerBang

Member
Sadly my 4090 cooked a few months ago so I picked up a 4080 super to hold me over until the 5090s but damn if I am being honest I wish my 4090 wouldn’t have died

Really considering holding onto this 4080S system as its a pretty nice PC
I'm terrified that might happen to me. You can't buy a new one anymore; a used one will cost you the same. Nvidia did everybody dirty. Instead of making the 4090 performance cheaper, they eliminated that tier and gave us only a stupidly expensive option.

It might still be worth trying to get a 5090 since its price won't go down for the foreseeable future (assuming you can find one, which probably won't be the case), but that HUGE gap between the 5080 and the 5090 seems to be there for a 5080ti down the line that I'd imagine would be basically a 4090 rival for around the same price.
 

Senua

Member
You mean 4080/S owners. You still don’t have DLSS or better RT, and the difference between FSR and DLSS is about to get even bigger. The 4080 owners get all those benefits.
About to? Dlss4 is out in the wild!
 

winjer

Member
If this is voluntary, then I'm assuming that Nvidia is pulling an Intel and going with a tick-tock design philosophy.


I didn't get mine for that cheap, but I managed to get a brand new high end-one for almost half of what it would ordinarily cost me, tax and shipping included. I didn't plan on making a new build then (was waiting for 5000 series), but for that price I moved the build forward by a year or so.

Remarkably cool card for what it is too.

This is not a Tick Tock strategy. This is a mere refresh or rebrand.
Mostly because there are no IPC improvements. Clock per clock and SM per SM, it's basically identical.
 

MikeM

Member
You mean 4080/S owners. You still don’t have DLSS or better RT, and the difference between FSR and DLSS is about to get even bigger. The 4080 owners get all those benefits.
Agreed, but with my 7900xt I find FSR to be good… not great, but good. If we get some level of FSR4 AI upscaling on RDNA3, then i’ll still consider it a massive win.

My use case doesn’t call for RT when my backlog is RDR2, Days Gone, Dying Light 1, Witcher 3, Dues Ex Mankind Divided, etc. People like me would absolutely look at the XTX as a viable option if running an old GPU.
 
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