Review: NVIDIA RTX 5080 Founders Edition

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This is it, D-Day, the end of the NDA for the NVIDIA RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics cards announced at CES 2025. We’ve already had the opportunity to bring you a review of the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Founders Edition on January 23. Tomorrow at 3pm we’ll be bringing you the three custom models we’ve received: the ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC Edition, the PNY RTX 5080 and the AORUS RTX 5080 Master.

You’ll finally find out where the performance of this new NVIDIA RTX 5080 Founders Edition stands in relation to the previous generation and the potential of DLSS 4 on this model. This new card will be available on January 30 on the NVIDIA website at the rather attractive price of 1179 euros. This is the MSRP price, but as you might expect, the vast majority of custom cards will be more expensive. Just to take you back a little further, the MSRP for the RTX 4080 FE at launch was 1469 euros, and for the RTX 4080 Super FE it was 1109 euros.

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So today we’re going to focus on the performance of this new-generation RTX 5080 model, which on paper looks promising and could be of interest to many gamers with ageing graphics cards. We haven’t made an unboxing video for this model, as the card has identical packaging to the RTX 5090 Founders Edition and a common design. You can watch the RTX 5090 unboxing video here. Thank you to NVIDIA France for providing us with a copy of this RTX 5080 Founders Edition model.