We recently opined that the days of paying over the odds for an NVIDIA 50-series might be over soon, but now you can get an ASUS RTX 5080 for MSRP.
It’s still marketed as a discount, however, rather than the price the card should have been all along, but now it’s at least closer to where it should be.
The NVIDIA RTX 5080 has hit MSRP, sort of
Over at Amazon, the ASUS Prime GeForce RTX 5080 is down 21%, reaching $999.99. That’s a drop of over $250, and means the card is now what it should have been selling for all along, and it’s being sold by Amazon directly, not a reseller.
The Prime model on offer here is a smaller 2.5-slot variant for more compact PC builds, but it’s still not really worth upgrading from the 4080 just ye, since there’s only around 5-10% of increased speed on offer.
Still, if you’ve got an older GPU like a 30-series or 20-series, it might be worth a look, particularly if you’re interested in NVIDIA’s AI-based features like DLSS 4 for vastly improved frame rates in titles like DOOM: The Dark Ages and more.
Speaking of games, this purchase also nets you a free copy of Borderlands 4 when it drops on September 12, giving you a game to push your new GPU in a couple of weeks.
