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,

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.

We reveal the RTX 5080 benchmarks, as we test the new gaming GPU in the latest games, including DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Gen results.

If you’ve got $1000 to spend on a graphics card, the RTX 5080 is probably now the one to buy. There are a few different headlines you should expect to see in discussion of Nvidia’s latest graphics card, the GeForce RTX 5080. So let me cut to the chase and summarize.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is a powerful upgrade to an already overpowered enthusiast-grade GPU, and in a lot of ways, this card is so good that it's largely superfluous for just about anyone who isn't in it for the pure flex of owning it.

The most powerful of Nvidia's newest Blackwell graphics cards is a " beast ." Review after review has brought up benchmarks showcasing that when it comes to gaming, the RTX 5090 blows its predecessors and other graphics cards away. However, it appears that for many consumers, the RTX 5090 is overkill.

A powerhouse Blackwell GPU with impressive specs and performance, but at a premium price. Is it worth the investment?

GPU maker NVIDIA has warned consumers that the stock of its forthcoming RTX 5090 and 5080 cards will be limited. Some gamers are even camping out to get one.

Nvidia followed up the most powerful GPU it’s ever made, the RTX 5090, with this — the RTX 5080. It’s half the price, and it offers around 70% of the performance. That should be a good thing, but the RTX 5080 falls short when compared to Nvidia’s last-gen offerings that still rank among the best graphics cards.

Following a two-year wait, NVIDIA’s highly-anticipated GeForce 50 series of GPUs are nearly here. Here's how to buy one.