Leaks are hotting up about Nvidia’s new second-in-command, with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 specs and performance rumored to offer several improvements over the current RTX 4080, but without rocking the boat too much. After the catastrophic launch of the GeForce RTX 4080, where one card ended up being “unlaunched” and the final card had an absurdly high price, we’re hoping that Nvidia has learned some lessons for this GPU’s successor.
While the RTX 5090 looks set to be the Nvidia flagship in its new Blackwell gaming GPU lineup, where it’s likely to take the best graphics card medal, the RTX 5080 should be much cheaper. Plus, while Nvidia misjudged the pricing of the original RTX 4080, it (just about) returned to form when it launched the cheaper and faster RTX 4080 Super for $999 at the start of 2024.
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