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.

Considering all that, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition is the graphics card we recommend if you're looking to play high-resolution, high-refresh-rate games, and plan to spend anything in the region of $1,000. For that, it merits our Editors' Choice award.

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,