Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 release date, price, and specs

Jensen Huang has now proudly shown off its new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 gaming GPU at the CES tradeshow in Las Vegas, where we were in attendance. This new graphics card is thankfully significantly cheaper than the RTX 4080, and it has a similar core spec, with 16GB of VRAM. We're confident that there isn't going to be any "unlaunching" this time around. In this guide, we'll take you through the RTX 5080 release date, as well as the price and specs of this new graphics card.

While the RTX 5090 takes pride of place as the Nvidia flagship in its new Blackwell gaming GPU lineup, where it's likely to take the best graphics card medal, the RTX 5080 is half the price. Plus, while Nvidia misjudged the pricing of the original RTX 4080, it (just about) returned to form when it launched the cheaper and faster RTX 4080 Super for $999 at the start of 2024.