[STEAM] Review: Nvidia’s $999 GeForce RTX 5080 falls disappointingly short of the 4090

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Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card was faster than the RTX 3080 card it replaced. But it was also faster than the RTX 3080 Ti, 3090, and 3090 Ti. One of the good things about a new graphics card generation is that the new cards bring the last generation's inaccessibly expensive high-end performance down to cards that more people can actually afford.

That's not the case with the new $999 RTX 5080, which beats

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by a little bit and the

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by a slightly larger bit but doesn't come close to beating or even replicating the performance of the outgoing 4090.

Nvidia points to its new DLSS Multi-Frame Generation technology as a mitigating factor here, leaning on its AI-generated frames to close the gap that the 5080's raw rendering performance can't close on its own. And sure, it's nice that this card can do that. On paper, the 5080 is also technically a good value compared to

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—between 60 and 75 percent of the performance for half the price (though talking about the MSRP of any of these cards at launch is strictly theoretical, given

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and the demand from both actual buyers and scalpers looking to make a buck).

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