The truth about the 5080

To be clear, i am in Europe. This might not apply to my fellow Americans.

But i am building a top of the line machine, and the truth is, i am coming from my old reliable 1080ti.

And the only card that makes sense in my situation is a 5080, let me explain.

We only have 1 real retailer for cards, scalpers are out of the question. That retailer has his prices like this:

Cheapest of each

4080 super : 1200.-

5090 : 3200.-

5080 : 999.-

Edit: Digitec.ch for the prices if you want to check, and i changed to swiss francs to not have people go bonkers lol.

I know the 5080 is underwhelming etc, BUT it does make sense for a lot of people. Why pay more for less performance or 3x more for an underwhelming uplift.

I wanted the 5090, and i have the budget, but at 3200.-, this is embarrassing... I will save those 2.2k. Sorry Nvidia but not sorry

Edit for my EU brothers: I am geographically in Europe, but Switzerland is a bit of an outlier, electronics are almost always way cheaper and our tax is only 8.8%. I ordered it for 964 Swiss francs .