Don't overreact just yet, but an early review hints at the RTX 5080 potentially making only slight performance jumps over the RTX 4080 Super.

Nvidia followed up the most powerful GPU it’s ever made, the RTX 5090, with this — the RTX 5080. It’s half the price, and it offers around 70% of the performance. That should be a good thing, but the RTX 5080 falls short when compared to Nvidia’s last-gen offerings that still rank among the best graphics cards.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 combines a small generational uplift with AI-powered multi-frame generation to bring along the next generation of graphics cards.

The Nvidia RTX 5080 cannot match up to the raw processing of a RTX 5080, but with multi frame gen it's a card you can't ignore.

Nvidia’s new RTX 5080 graphics card isn’t as exciting as I was hoping it would be. While the sleek new Founders Edition redesign dramatically shrinks the size of the card compared to the RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Super,

At a glance Expert's Rating Pros ・DLSS Multi Frame Generation is a game-changer in compatible titles, driving snappy new levels of smoothness by increasing frame rates fourfold, tightly paced. ・Great 4K and 1440p performance ・Tightly engineered Founders Edition model somehow squeezes into a fairly quiet two-slot design Cons ・Very small performance