NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 SUPER Gains 24 GB GDDR7, Keeps 10,752 CUDA Cores

[Hyderz]

Snore… bring 60 series with decent performance differences

 

[tabascosauz]

Glad I waited

And keep waiting I will

 

[Guwapo77]

5090 was like 6500 here last time I looked.. hard pass..

Yes 4K.

Not trying to disprove what you're saying at all. I've saw Newegg with those crazy ass prices!

I did find this though... https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00132351

 

[Sithaer]

I get almost 18 gigs vram usage in Diablo 4 at 1440p on my 7900 xt. It is nice having that extra vram

Usage =//= allocation.
D4 can allocate a lot of Vram but in reality you don't need that much. 'There are benchmarks between the 3060 Ti and 6700 XT and they run the game about the same on 1440p'
I've been playing the game since the beta version and it was never an issue on my 8 GB card at my res and I do push my chars to the end game where things are a lot more chaotic and demanding and yet I have zero issues playing the game.

 

[Niceumemu]

Right?! Early 4090 adopters hit the jackpot.

The 4090's probably going down as one of the best buys in PC gaming, up there with the 1080 Ti.

The 4090 only looks good because everything else has been utter shit. The 1080 Ti was good on its own merits, not because the rest of the market was terrible

 

[freeagent]

Not trying to disprove what you're saying at all. I've saw Newegg with those crazy ass prices!

I did find this though... https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00132351

Its been a long time since I looked at anything that wasn't Amazon lol.. dammit.

 

[x4it3n]

The 4090 still says hello. (16384 CUDA cores, 1.01TB/s memory bandwidth)

Unfortunately the 4090 is Memory Bandwidth starved... It has ~52.4% more CUDA Cores but is only ~20% faster than the 5080 ! Hence why the 5090 has a 512-bit bus but it is still very limited somehow.

Imo the 4090 & 5090 are both hugely held back because of L2 Cache, the 4090 only has 72MB (instead of 96MB for a full AD102) and the 5090 only has 96MB (instead of 128MB for a full GB202).

Nvidia are charging a Premium for those GPUs but do not even bother giving the full L2 Cache! It's very disappointing honestly.

If it wasn't for its doomed to be ridiculous price I'd consider buying it. Nothing wrong for me personally in this performance and VRAM capacity. 16 GB feels short, 5090 doesn't fit my future PC case.

The 5080 and 5090 have the same cooler so if you can fit a 5080 then you can definitely fit a 5090 (even though the 5090 will draw a lot more power)

 

[JoeTheDestroyer]

Not trying to disprove what you're saying at all. I've saw Newegg with those crazy ass prices!

I did find this though... https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00132351

Rip off, I paid $3000 for that exact card this weekend at my local microcenter. (Which is still a rip off, but $700 less of one...)

i mean they cant keep up with demand so they will continue to milk until there's actual competition.

That seems to be coming to an end. My local microcenter has 67 5090s on the shelves at the moment.

 

[Ninehell]

If review is ok then i'll grab one. xx80 in my country are terrible anyway, like $1400+.

 

[N/A]

This 3GB of memory has a bandwidth of 40.5 Gbps. Imagine if it wasn't locked with drivers it would have 1296GB and more with overclocking. But still I think in the first quarter of 2026 we can expect a 6080 or 5080 Ti.

 

[RogueSix]

Right?! Early 4090 adopters hit the jackpot.

The 4090's probably going down as one of the best buys in PC gaming, up there with the 1080 Ti.

4090 early adopter here. Early adopter prices of the RTX 4090 were insane because everyone was super-nervous due to the CoVid and crypto scalping during the previous gen. I paid €2449 for my MSI Suprim X in October 2022. Given RTX 5090 pricing, I'm not complaining too much though but a jackpot this was not...

The people who really hit the jackpot are the ones who waited until about February/March 2023 (four - five months after RTX 4090 was released) when RTX 4090s finally dropped below €2000 and could be bought for €1800 - €1999.

Early pricing for RTX 4090s was wild though. Here's a chart for my MSI Suprim X for example:

And just for reference/comparison's sake here is another one for the ASUS ROG STRIX 4090 OC:

^ As we can see, the pricing history is very similar. People who bought their RTX 4090 at the end of Q1 or in Q2/2023 definitely made quite the bargain but real early adopters not so much...

 

[x4it3n]

5090 was like 6500 here last time I looked.. hard pass..

Yes 4K.

The 5090 being only 30-40% more powerful than the 4090 while 25% more expensive (at MSRP of course, because the 5090 is selling for $3000-4000 on the market right now). We can rightfully say that the 5090 is a huge disappointment. With ~33% more CUDA Cores and ~78% more Memory Bandwidth, I was expecting the 5090 to be 50%+ more powerful than the 4090, but for whatever reason it is not scaling well at all.

The 5090 should have been made on TSMC 3nm (to improve efficiency & performance) too. And Blackwell should have had a 20-30% IPC increase in Raster and 40%+ in RT/PT, but no it's a Refresh of Lovelace... The power delivery should have been improved too (to avoid melting connectors). Let's not forget the awful drivers with Black screens, Crashes, Stutters, etc. and MFG that doesn't even work great if your base framerate is below 90fps...

Nvidia really cheaped out with Blackwell, it is the worst gen-over-gen upgrade and even its pricing is disastrous
Let's hope the RTX 60s will be a MUCH better upgrade.

That seems to be coming to an end. My local microcenter has 67 5090s on the shelves at the moment.

Which one is it ? Tustin, CA ?

 

[x4it3n]

This 3GB of memory has a bandwidth of 40.5 Gbps. Imagine if it wasn't locked with drivers it would have 1296GB and more with overclocking. But still I think in the first quarter of 2026 we can expect a 6080 or 5080 Ti.

If true then that's a real bummer yeah. I know 36Gbps are already available but 40Gbps would be a huge upgrade! And on a 5090 even more... 2.5TB/s!! Imo that's what the 6090 will get.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Pure AI bait.

 

[x4it3n]

pretty much all microcenters have an excess of gpu's now (albeit price marked up very high), market is finally starting to even out I think, we will start to see small sales here and there as they offload smaller batches. turns out not that many people can afford a 5090 and 5080, who knew

i think by christmas we will be back at msrp prices across the board simply because they can't move product anymore.

Good, cause $3000 for a GPU is a big no for me. I paid $1930 (All Taxes Included) for my MSI 4090 SUPRIM LIQUID X, so a 5090 paying above 40% (aka $2450) wouldn't make sense in terms of perf/price.

 

[Hereticbar]

Yeah it is! 16GB cards @ high resolution are outdated imho. I didn't know D4 demanded that much @ 1440p, but it sure feels good to know you're solid for a few more years.

Diablo IV doesn't actually need that much VRAM. My VRAM usage was at 22GB when I was playing on my 3090 and 14 GB on my 4080, same max out settings in both instances.

The game is like a greedy little treasure goblin, it will takes as much as it can get away with. Hit it hard enough, it will explode and you get your VRAM back!

 

[Space Lynx]

Diablo IV doesn't actually need that much VRAM. My VRAM usage was at 22GB when I was playing on my 3090 and 14 GB on my 4080, same max out settings in both instances.

The game is like a greedy little treasure goblin, it will takes as much as it can get away with. Hit it hard enough, it will explode and you get your VRAM back!

maybe it doesn't matter for max or avg fps, but maybe the extra vram helps with min fps? i dunno, prob doesn't matter even if it does, cause that game is so easy to run

 

[cinemaware]

Very sad if true, Nvidia is relentlessly milking gamers for everything they have left.

If this was AMD, people would say "oooh more options thank you Lisa". Yes, the card itself is thoroughly unexciting but nobody forces you or others to buy it, and overall it’s better to have this choice than not.

The real reason to get mad at Nvidia is that there is still shortage of the "somewhat reasonable" GPUs, namely 5070Ti and also 5080. Because at MSRP they don't look too bad now, do they? And why there is no MSRP and all the official outlets are scalpers? Because there are not enough chips to manufacture the cards and so the sellers can do what they want. SO, yeah, I understand that gamers are now at the bottom of the priority list because of "AI factories" and what not, but still - after more than 2 decades of living off our dollar, they could sort it out much better.

But, wait, it's the same with AMD, gave up on high end and their flagship is made of unobtainium, so...

 

[Bwaze]

This aims at AI crowd, will be priced for people and businesses that generate revenue with their hardware. Gamers and other who just waste their time need not apply…

 

[Macro Device]

The 5080 and 5090 have the same cooler

On one hand yes, they do, but on the other hand, we don't have Founders Editions here in Russia so I have to choose between 300ish mm 5080s and 340ish mm 5090s.

 

[Ruru]

Right?! Early 4090 adopters hit the jackpot.

The 4090's probably going down as one of the best buys in PC gaming, up there with the 1080 Ti.

A card which cost over 2KEUR/KUSD is everything else than a good purchase. When 1080 Ti was the best thing in the GPU market, you could build a whole high-end gaming PC with that amount.

And I don't take inflation as an excuse for these modern overpriced cards' pricing.

 

[Broken Processor]

Are there any games currently that need more than 16gb ram?
I've not been paying attention so legitimately wondering.

While extra vram is always welcome I can't help but feel this isn't for gamers. I also wonder if it will make the 5080 more appealing and maybe there's another card coming at some point because of the massive core gap between the 5080 and 5090. Seriously if I was in the market I'd be holding out hoping they release a card with more cores.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Wait, how come you get 24GB on a 256-bit bus? Shouldn't be 32GB?

 

[dismuter]

The 4090 still says hello. (16384 CUDA cores, 1.01TB/s memory bandwidth)

The 4090 has been discontinued for while though.

Wait, how come you get 24GB on a 256-bit bus? Shouldn't be 32GB?

The answer is in the second paragraph: 3 GB memory modules instead of 2 GB.

 

[Rightness_1]

Do the same with the 5070Ti and we have a deal!