The days of spending hundreds of dollars over MSRP for a GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card are over. Amazon Prime members can pick up an Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5080 16GB Graphics Card for the original launch price of $999.99 with free delivery. It’s sold and shipped directly from Amazon and not a marketplace reseller. If you see a marketplace vendor instead of Amazon, that means it is currently sold out and you’ll have to wait for Amazon to restock. Orders are limited to just one per person to avoid reselling.
Th Asus GeForce RTX 5080 GPU Is Back Down to MSRP
The Asus Prime model features a triple fan cooling solution with a slimmer 2.5-slot design that’s designed to fit in more PCs, including certain SFF cases that have longer dimensions.
More RTX 5080 Graphics Cards at MSRP
Get Borderlands 4 for Free With Purchase
For a limited time, you can receive a free download copy of Borderlands 4 when it releases on September 12 with the purchase of a select Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 card. Head over to Nvidia’s press release for more details. You’ll receive instructions on how to redeem your bundle via the Nvidia app.
Compared to the previous generation cards, the GeForce RTX 5080 is about 5%-10% faster than the RTX 4080 Super, which is discontinued and no longer available. For a generational upgrade, the performance improvement is pretty minor, but the launch price is the same as the RTX 4080 Super, which makes it an equivalent value. A major reason why the RTX 5080 received so much criticism when it first came out was that it was hard to find one at MSRP, and you actually had to pay upwards of $1,500 from a private seller. At least that is no longer the case.
Performance-wise, the RTX 5080 is no slouch. It’s one of the fastest cards on the market, bested only by the $2,000 RTX 5090 and the discontinued $1,600 RTX 4090. This is a phenomenal card for playing the latest, most demanding games in 4K resolution at high settings and ray tracing enabled. The RTX 5080 supports DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation, which means you can push even more frames out of games that support the technology with minimal visual compromise. Recent games that support it include Doom: The Dark Ages, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (after a recent update), Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Stellar Blade, and upcoming titles like Borderlands 4 and Battlefield 6.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 FE Review by Jacqueline Thomas
“If you already have a high-end graphics card from the last couple of years, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 doesn’t make a lot of sense – it just doesn’t have much of a performance lead over the RTX 4080, though the extra frames from DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Generation do make things look better in games that support it. However, for gamers with an older graphics card who want a significant performance boost, the RTX 5080 absolutely provides – doubly so if you’re comfortable with Nvidia’s AI goodies.”
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