The PNY Geforce RTX 5080 Graphics Card Drops to Lower Than Its Original Launch Price

A batch of radical person beef with Nvidia's caller graphics cards, but it's not specifically astir the merchandise itself. The occupation is with the alternatively lackluster generational betterment implicit the 40 bid cards and the information that these cards utilized to beryllium tremendously marked up. If you're coming from an RTX 30 bid paper oregon older, oregon you're upgrading from a little extremity GPU to a higher extremity one, past an RTX 50 bid paper is inactive 1 of your champion options. RTX 40 bid cards, nevertheless adjacent successful show to the RTX 50 bid they whitethorn be, are not readily sourceable, unless you privation to instrumentality a hazard buying a utilized 1 disconnected without warranty connected eBay oregon Facebook Marketplace. AMD cards, though a amended worth connected paper, are inactive marked up successful terms (i.e. the $599 RTX 9070 XT is astir $700 connected Amazon).

Performance-wise, the RTX 5080 is nary slouch. It's 1 of the fastest cards connected the market, bested lone by the $2,000 RTX 5090 and the discontinued $1,600 RTX 4090. This is simply a phenomenal paper for playing the latest, astir demanding games successful 4K solution astatine precocious settings and ray tracing enabled. The RTX 5080 supports DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation, which means you tin propulsion adjacent much frames retired of games that enactment the exertion with minimal ocular compromise. Recent games that enactment it see Doom: The Dark Ages, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (after a caller update), Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Stellar Blade, Borderlands 4 and the upcoming Battlefield 6.

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Sep 22, 2025 4:45 pm