GeForce RTX 5080

The GeForce RTX 5080 is NVIDIA's second Blackwell die on this list, the GB203, with 10,752 CUDA cores at a 2620MHz boost clock, 16GB of GDDR7 on a 256-bit bus, and 960 GB/s of bandwidth. Launched at $999, it now sells for roughly $1249 at current Amazon pricing (July 2026). Its index scores of 211 at 1440p and 220 at 4K make it the clear #2 performer in both resolution tiers behind only the 5090, and GamersNexus' testing put it at 134 fps in Dragon's Dogma 2 at 1440p and 81 fps in ray-traced Death Stranding 2 at 4K. Tom's Hardware's comparative testing found the 5080 running 8-16% faster than the RTX 5070 Ti, with the largest gap opening up at 4K, consistent with its bandwidth advantage showing up most at higher resolutions. At 360W board power with a 3x 8-pin adapter (or 12V-2x6) connector, it's a substantial but not extreme power draw, and its 16GB VRAM buffer is adequate for 4K ultra settings today. It carries DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, NVIDIA's top-tier NVENC encoder, and mature Blackwell drivers, earning a 9/10 features score. This is the card for buyers who want genuine 4K performance without the RTX 5090's 575W thermal and financial demands, or 1440p players who want serious ray-tracing headroom. The honest caveat is entirely about the value math: its $1249 street price, up roughly 25% over MSRP due to the GDDR7 supply premium, gives it one of the weakest value-for-money scores in the field (168.9, #9 of 10); that is precisely why it ranks behind the far cheaper RX 9070 in this composite despite outscoring it on every raw performance dimension.