The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 is an efficient, sleek member of the latest graphics card line, and the Multi-Frame Generation tech is eye-catching.

Get your hands on the new Blackwell GPU with our guide on where to find the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 in stock near you.

Introduction The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is NVIDIA’s next-generation graphics card featuring the new Blackwell architecture with an MSRP of $999. The GeForce RTX 5080 is the second GPU in NVIDIA’s new RTX 50 Series lineup,

Before the launch last week, Nvidia’s head of GeForce community Tim Adams warned everyone that the new GPUs might be hard to find: “We expect significant demand for the GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 and believe stock-outs may happen.

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.

But then, neither is it a blood-boiler like the RTX 4080, nor a largely aspirational show-off piece like the RTX 5090. By maintaining the 4080 Super’s course correction on price while tooling up on compelling DLSS 4 improvements,

I spent a week extensively testing the RTX 5080, and overall it's the best premium graphics card for most people you can get right now.

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.

Nvidia has been the champion of a new 12-pin power connector, but it might fall back to a standard PCIe adapter with the RTX 5060.