Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are real, and well, they’re not as spectacular as many gamers hoped at first glance – at least when you aren’t using DLSS 4. I’m worried about what that means for the $550 RTX 5070 PC that gamers seemed so jazzed about,

The best argument for grabbing a 5080 right now, if you can find one at $999 in the first place, is that the only cards that come close to its performance are either way more expensive than they're supposed to be (the 4080 Super) or not cheap enough to justify the Nvidia-specific features you give up (AMD's Radeon 7900 XTX).

Nvidia's RTX 5090 GPU is expected to be one of the most elusive GPUs to date at launch and based on the information available to us, it would be challenging for most users to score one even with the best of efforts this quarter.