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JEMC said:

Hiku said:

If this leaker is correct, RTX 5080 costs retailers $1587 USD to purchase, and they'll sell it for around $1746 USD. Sales tax not included.

I'm having a hard time believing this.

Nvidia tried to sell the 4080 for $1200 and it failed miserably, that's why the Super revision was priced at $1000. Mind you, the 4090 was "only" three hundred more and so it made sense to spend a bit more and get a lot more, but the reality is that is you canb afford to spend that much money on a GPU, you can spend a bit more and get the better model, the 5090.

So yeah, I seriously doubt it.

But, you know, never say never, given that this time around there is no competition from AMD, Nvidia may have gone cocky and it's trying it again.

The thing is, the 4080 also had competition in form of the 7900XTX which was faster in Raster, plus the 4090 kinda set an upper limit. The 5080 won't have that competition unless the 5080 ain't much faster than the 4080 (considering that according to rumors the 50 series will be mainly improved in RT and AI, raster could have had a much smaller increase that gen), as then the 9070XT might creep up on it.

Also, failed miserably? The 4080 is still in front of the 4080 Super in the Steam survey. Of course, the 4090 was a much better deal price/performance (hence why it has sold about as much as both 4080 versions combined according the steam survey), but it's successor the 5090 is already rumored to go for ~$2500, creating a much larger gap between itself and the 5080.

That all being said, I also think that the prices in the leak are inflated, though just somewhat. Don't expect the 5080 to go for less than $1199 at launch, with $1499 on the high end.