Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is exceptionally powerful but forbiddingly expensive. (You could build a complete RTX 5080-based gaming PC for the money.) But this top-tier GPU lives on a whole other planet of performance.

We reveal the RTX 5080 benchmarks, as we test the new gaming GPU in the latest games, including DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Gen results.

It’s disappointing to see Nvidia has stuck with 16GB of VRAM on the RTX 5080. AMD’s RX 7900 XTX offers 24GB, and while the RTX 5080 delivers better performance for now, it may well hit video memory limits in 4K gaming in the future.

The GeForce RTX 5080 offers negligible improvement over the 4080 Super's performance -- but also a truly game-changing feature in DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation.

The RTX 5080 Founders Edition uses the same lovely shroud as the top RTX Blackwell card, and brings the same DLSS/MFG feature set to the table. But that's all that is really setting the second-tier card apart from the RTX 4080 Super as the gen-on-gen performance difference is marginal at best.

MSRP is $999 / £939 / AU$2,019When can you get it? The RTX 5080 goes on sale January 30, 2025Where is it available? The RTX 5080 will be available in the US, UK, and Australia at launch The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 goes on sale on January 30,

Campouts have already begun for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, as people appear to be lined up in tents ready to plunk down thousands of dollars for NVIDIA‘s next powerhouse graphics card. This kind of thing is really nothing new when it comes to items that are likely to be limited in quantity.