[STEAM] Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 a "monopolistic crime" says whistleblower Edward Snowden

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With their heavy reliance on AI frame generation to get their big frame rate boosts, Nvidia's latest RTX 5000 GPUs have proved divisive among commentators, and renowned tech privacy whistleblower Edward Snowden has waded into the discussion, describing the release of the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 as a "monopolistic crime" on social media.

While you do indeed need to enable Multi Frame Gen to get the most out of the new

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GPU, as we found in our recent

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, we liked its $999 price tag (assuming you can find any

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), especially after Nvidia priced the RTX 4080 at $1,199 when it first came out. The lack of competition is undoubtedly a factor here, though, with the AMD Radeon

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only expected to challenge the RTX 5070, rather than the 5080.

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