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The RTX 5080 Founders Edition is NVIDIA's upper-mid flagship gaming card, built on the Blackwell architecture with 16GB of GDDR7 on a 256-bit bus and a 360W board power. It adds DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, fourth-generation ray tracing cores and a dual-slot, dual-fan cooler that fits far more cases than the triple-slot cards it competes with. It suits 4K gamers and creators who want strong raster and ray-traced performance without the size and power draw of the RTX 5090. Against AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT it wins on ray tracing and DLSS features but costs more and offers less raw memory bandwidth per dollar; against its own RTX 4080 Super it is a modest raster step up with a much bigger feature jump.
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Lowest price we've seen: $999.00 on Nov 11 at Micro Center. Tracked across 6 stores since Nov 11.
Reviewers rate the RTX 5080 FE as a fast, efficient-feeling 4K card whose real draw is DLSS 4 rather than raw generational gains. Owners praise the compact cooler and quiet operation, while critics focus on the small uplift over the 4080 Super and the 16GB frame buffer.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition is a dedicated graphics card with GDDR7 video memory on a 256-bit interface. The memory runs at 30 Gbps. The card has a 2300 MHz clock speed and a 2.62 GHz boost clock, and it supports overclocking.
It fits a dual-slot profile and connects to the motherboard through a PCI expansion slot. It draws power through a 12-pin connector and has a 360W TDP. An 850 W power supply is recommended.
The card outputs up to 4K resolution and supports ray tracing and VR. It can drive up to 4 monitors and has HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. It does not support multi-card setups with NVIDIA NVLink.
