Gamers won’t be able to buy an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 for $999, leakers suggest

The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards reportedly won't be available for the $999 MSRP, and it’s apparently all down to low profit margins for third-party card manufacturers. That’s according to comments made on social media by hardware leakers, who suggest this particular Nvidia GPU is priced too low compared to the cost of manufacturing a card, with third-party graphics card makers struggling to make it work at the suggested price.

Nvidia is looking to continue to dominate the best graphics card market with its new GPUs, with recent leaked RTX 5080 benchmarks placing it ahead of the RTX 4080 Super. However, a troubled storm of RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 stock shortages, along with very high demand, could make these cards particularly hard to obtain for some time, especially at the prices that Nvidia is setting itself.