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5080 Reviews

ARE YOU EXCITED?

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TheFPSReview: https://www.thefpsreview.com/2025/01/29/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5080-founders-edition-video-card-review/

ChadD said:
I just started going through these. Gotta say I knew it was going to be bad based on the specs. I was not really expecting to see 4% better over 4080 super at 1440.... and seeing the 7900xtx beat it in a few titles. Interesting.
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I'm in the same boat. Knew the gains weren't going to be great... but seeing the single-digit improvements over the 4080 in the bar graphs is rough.

Especially as this was the card I was eyeballing to replace my 3080. Time to wait for the Super refresh and see if that actually has anything of substance to offer.
 
Ouch. It’s been when the main techtuber channels all pretty much say meh what’s the point. Even if I were coming from older hardware I’d wait for a 5070ti/5080ti refresh to spend my money. The value isn’t here, and it counts like neither is the supply.

I do wonder how many more times nvidia will do this until gamers take a real stand and vote with their wallet. Dear nvidia, the pandemic ended. No need to artificially short supply, other than paper launching.

Now called the 4080ti by multiple reviewers… like the 5090 being called the 4090ti… ouch.

I’m looking forward to seeing refreshes.
 
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Brackle said:
So basically everyone was right. This 5080 is a 5070 class GPU.

Boy Nvidia if trying to fleece us good. It explains all the fake frame gen graphs they tried to show.
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Yup. And if you want a good read look at the increase from the 3 series to 4 series (minus the 4090). That will open your eyes also if you weren’t aware.
 
Just watching tech J Nexus review. 5080 crashing out cyberpunk so no score for CP. So a bit faster then the 4080s when it works I guess.
 
Sir Beregond said:
Explains the $999 price. It's a slightly better 4080 Super.

The fact it's not even a 4090 level of performance is really poor for a new generation, and there's no excuse for it. Nvidia chose to make GB203 and the overall specs what they did. This was deliberate.
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Well, no one buying a 4080 at $1200 explains the $1000 price. Nvidia would charge $3000 for this if they could, make no mistake.

Anyway, what an absolutely boring launch.
 
pututu said:
Well then the price of 4080S will not drop significantly in the secondary market. I guess that's good for those already have that card.
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I snagged one recently for a price I’m not complaining about but damned I really expected the 5080 to be better. I get leaving room for the 5080S or what not but Jesus tap dancing Christ that’s just nuts.
 
Lakados said:
I snagged one recently for a price I’m not complaining about but damned I really expected the 5080 to be better. I get leaving room for the 5080S or what not but Jesus tap dancing Christ that’s just nuts.
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I mean the 5080 super will just an overclocked version of the 5080 (Which overclocks well already). There is no upgrade die for the 5080 as it is already using the maxed out die.

Unless they want to use a cut down 5090, which I dont think they would do.
 
A wet fart of a card, might as well be a rebadged 4080s. And they go cheap mode on this card and don't even use the same cooler as on the 5090.
 
Brackle said:
I mean the 5080 super will just an overclocked version of the 5080 (Which overclocks well already). There is no upgrade die for the 5080 as it is already using the maxed out die.

Unless they want to use a cut down 5090, which I dont think they would do.
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It sure explains why Nvidia wants to push through blackwell datacenter as well and push the rubin gen timeline up. They know blackwell is a bit of a dog. Efficiency gains are good for data centers. It seems like that is the only real gain this gen though. I feel they might just skip supers and move on to the next one. Unless the masses really buy into the fake frame stupidty I guess.
 
Furious_Styles said:
As many have already suggested I'm going to now pretty much agree with. And that is that nvidia purposely hamstrung this card so they can just release a ti variant later with a nice price premium of course.
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that assume a lot of hindsight on their part, I feel it is a bit more messy than that, did Nvidia themselve knew fully a year ago how little 30% memory bandwith increase will do in 2025 games.

Fitting the 5090 mobile in current laptop chassis 1:1 could be driving a lot of decision aboug GB203, there is 0 room on that die to grow for a 5080TI outside boosting it clock wise (and a 24GB version...), maybe that was the plan before the benchmark came out and decided they had to go full core.

A 5080Ti at a nice premium would need to be on the GB202 die and that more a panic plan C last recourse that something Nvidia would have planned to do.

Reviews are a sad day, there is always some ridiculous hope that the 4080 was more limited by the 256 bits (that was a lot of the discourse at Lovelace launch, how wrong we were...), specially in RT-4K and that a 30% memory bandwidth will be more relevant than the 4090 that was already really fast.

Will see how much it will stay true with drivers update, but one way Nvidia could make the 5080 look better is DLSS transformer benchmark.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5080-founders-edition/40.html

4k-RT on, 5080 performance ratio with a 4090

DLSSCNN%Transformer%
DLAA
83%​
85%​
quality
85%​
93%​
balanced
84%​
93%​
performance
82%​
89%​

All of a sudden instead of being 83-85% of a 4090 it get to be 93% of a 4090 performance, that gap could get reduced by half once game-lovelace in the drivers get well supported for Transformer DLSS, next month.
 
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Brackle said:
I mean the 5080 super will just an overclocked version of the 5080 (Which overclocks well already). There is no upgrade die for the 5080 as it is already using the maxed out die.

Unless they want to use a cut down 5090, which I dont think they would do.
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Who knows maybe they put out an A1 die that is 15% larger or something.

The power usage on the 5080 is good but everything else is a hot pile of "meh..."
 
I was at NVIDIA's CES keynote, and I definitely got the sense that the company was using spectacle to mask what would ultimately be an iterative update. It's unfortunate, even if it does give an opening to AMD and will make you feel better about owning an RTX 40-series card.

Also: this reinforces my theory that consoles are generally safe from poaching by gaming PCs. A $700 PS5 Pro is expensive by console standards, but it's still a complete gaming system that costs less than NVIDIA's new "upper mid-range" RTX 5070 Ti and will arguably play many of the latest games just fine. Even a regular PS5 is still pretty solid. Yes, you can definitely get a PC that outperforms a PS5 Pro (and can of course run non-game software), but someone who's seriously considering a console isn't going to look at an RTX 50-series GPU as a better value — especially not if they'd rather play somewhere besides their home office.
 
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