With its slimline two-slot cooler, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition might look practically identical to its two-grand sibling when you lift it out of its slender, recyclable cardboard box, but there’s a very different GPU under that cooler. You can basically think of the RTX 5080 as half a 5090 – you get around half the GPU power and half the VRAM. Perhaps more importantly, it’s also half the price. Despite all this, though, the RTX 5080 performs exceptionally well, and can still be regarded as a 4K gaming GPU. This new Nvidia top-end sub-$1,000 GPU picks up from where the RTX 4080 Super left off, and that’s not a bad place to start. This GPU is already the best graphics card you can buy if you can’t stretch to over a grand, and the 5080 brings support for DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Gen with it, which uses AI to insert up to three frames between each pair of genuinely rendered ones, massively increasing the frame rate, with a negligible impact on image quality. I’m also really glad to see that Nvidia has abandoned the ludicrous $1,199 price tag that held back the RTX 4080 when it was launched, and instead gone with the $999 tag of the later 4080 Super model. On the other hand, the RTX 5080 has a very similar spec to the 4080 and its Super variant in terms of basic numbers, which means it’s heavily relying on new features such as Multi Frame Gen to really give it a generational edge. Is this enough? I’ve run the RTX 5080 benchmarks on our test rig to find out. Continue reading Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review: Meet the new $999 graphics card king MORE FROM PCGAMESN: RTX 5090 review, DLSS explained, Best graphics cards