3090 to 5080?

[mart1985]

I had been planning on waiting for the 5080 SUPER, but given the delay and current OC offers, does it make sense to get a 5080 now?

It is for gaming only and I would keep the 3090 for now regardless. It seems a 40-70% performance upgrade is possible, which seems decent for £1-1.2k.

What are people's thoughts? If it is to go for a 5080, am I correct in that it is mainly about cooling and noise for the different models? What would be best at the current <£1.2k price point?

 

[Personality+]

I had been planning on waiting for the 5080 SUPER, but given the delay and current OC offers, does it make sense to get a 5080 now?

It is for gaming only and I would keep the 3090 for now regardless. It seems a 40-70% performance upgrade is possible, which seems decent for £1-1.2k.

What are people's thoughts? If it is to go for a 5080, am I correct in that it is mainly about cooling and noise for the different models? What would be best at the current <£1.2k price point?

MSI 5080 Expert if you can find one, otherwise I'd just go with whatever is cheapest unless you value fan noise profile (have tried FE/Noctua OC) from 5080 selection

 

[Gray2233]

I had been planning on waiting for the 5080 SUPER, but given the delay and current OC offers, does it make sense to get a 5080 now?

It is for gaming only and I would keep the 3090 for now regardless. It seems a 40-70% performance upgrade is possible, which seems decent for £1-1.2k.

What are people's thoughts? If it is to go for a 5080, am I correct in that it is mainly about cooling and noise for the different models? What would be best at the current <£1.2k price point?

Do you have any other use cases for the 3090? They actually command a pretty high price second hand still due to how much VRAM they have.

Sell the bugger and grab a 5080, no harm in it and you probably wont end up spending that much.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Gainward GeForce RTX 5080 Phoenix 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-GNW-03981) = £949.99
• 1 x NVIDIA Game Bundle - Resident Evil: Requiem (SKU: DIG-NVI-07316) = £0.00

Total: £957.98 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

If you're glued to Nvidia, I hate to say it but £950 isn't entirely terrible right now.

If you only play a small number of specific games you might be much better off with AMD however, CoD is one example where a £550 9070XT will Rival a £2000-3000 Nvidia 5090.

 

[Minstadave]

I sold my 3090 and moved to a 9070XT for no cost. Was a great move tbh, nice performance boost, more efficient. Only thinng I missed was RTX HDR.

The 5080 is terrible value overall, may aswell go for the 5090FE, although stock looks to be very infrequent. AIB 5090 pricing is crazy, didn't know things had got that rough.

 

[rare]

The 5080 is terrible value overall, may aswell go for the 5090FE

While I agree with the sentiment, the 5090FE is twice the price of the cheaper 5080’s…

 

[Gray2233]

I sold my 3090 and moved to a 9070XT for no cost. Was a great move tbh, nice performance boost, more efficient. Only thinng I missed was RTX HDR.

The 5080 is terrible value overall, may aswell go for the 5090FE, although stock looks to be very infrequent. AIB 5090 pricing is crazy, didn't know things had got that rough.

You'd need a miracle to find one in stock, and in relation to the 5080's most review outlets use the base FE model.

Most non-FE are arguably overbuilt and will boost a fair chunk more if you play around, so you can slap on another 10-20% performance depending on the game and silicone lottery, more with some tweaking and luck. The most offensive thing with the product is the shockingly low amount of VRAM on what is essentially their flagship current gen consumer GPU -- and no I do not count the 5090 as it's blatantly a Halo product much like the Titans were back in the day. Nvidia could have easily slapped a 384bit bus on the 5080 with 24gb of VRAM much like the 3090 and it would have been a far more impressive product, and actually worth the asking price at launch.

 

[Tetras]

I had been planning on waiting for the 5080 SUPER, but given the delay and current OC offers, does it make sense to get a 5080 now?

Yeah, the Super would have been a much better card for the money, but they may never arrive now.