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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - (PRE)ORDER DISCUSSION **NO COMPETITOR HINTING**

I think the 5080 is moving to general availability so I'd assume they'll have to do something about the price here. I had a stock checking app going yesterday when I decided to buy one and it was pinging like a teenager's snapchat
 
Major774 said:
Looks like no one wants the Palit Gaming Pro 5080, still in stock in OC and scalped listings aren’t selling haha.
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Palit have long been an unfashionable brand, though I've had several and, as somebody not that interested in overclocking potential, they've all been absolutely fine. This is why I jumped into the Palit queue for the 5090 at the other place.
 
RS61 said:
Comedy £3k basic Palit 5090 at another place which has been sitting there since yesterday still unpurchased. So clearly there is a limit to how much people will pay.
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My personal hunch is that when some of these ‘priced very high’ cards have been available for hours, then go ‘out of stock’, retailers are simply removing the option to buy them / trying to make it look like they sold at that price… or are otherwise trying to keep the wider stack of mark-ups high and justifiable.

I mostly say this with regards to high price 5080s. I expect that very, very few people are going to pay an insane mark-up on a 5080 when they could spend a little more (albeit in a month or two) and get a 5090.

I could be wrong of course, but that’s the sort of weaselly tactic that I would do myself :D
 
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Rogueywon said:
Palit have long been an unfashionable brand, though I've had several and, as somebody not that interested in overclocking potential, they've all been absolutely fine. This is why I jumped into the Palit queue for the 5090 at the other place.
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I would happily get a Palit 5080, but not at that £1.2K - £1.3K… At normalised stock levels I think it should be £1.1K max.
 
peahead said:
Not sure why PALIT get so much hate really, my 4090 Palit Gamerock has been excellent, a lot of these cards are made in the same factories.
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It’s the looks, the Gaming Pro is not exactly a great looking card. So it is priced correctly with another retailer at £1,055.99.
 
Can I get a reality check here?

I currently have:

13900k
3080
32 gb of 6400 ram
850w seasonic PSU

I'm going to be getting a new GPU. I currently have a 3080, which my partner is going to be inheriting (hers is dying).

I currently run a 1440p OLED and a 1440p IPS side by side. I also infrequently play some games on my 55 inch 4k OLED TV.

My 3080 is near enough meeting my needs for gaming, maybe its starting to get a bit long in the tooth, but its not something I would be upgrading right now if it wasn't for partners GPU dying, I'd of struggled through for a 6080/6090.

I set my mind on a 5090 mostly due to the 5080 seemingly being so underwhelming, I think its a subpar product and very expensive for what it is.

My question is, would a 5090 be totally overkill for my needs? I'd obviously need a new PSU for a 5090, my CPU would be holding it back and I spend 95% of my time gaming at 1440p. I tend to keep my GPUs 4 years roughly.

My 3 options are:

Get a 5090 when available give her the 3080 (2.xk + 200-300 for a good psu)
Get a 5080 (a lot quicker probably) and give her the 3080 (£1.2k ish)
Buy another second hand 3080 for her and struggle through with my 3080 till the 6xxx series (£350).

I don't really care about the money but wasting for the sake of having the best without a proper need for it would be pretty dumb.

What do you guys think?
 
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The issue I'm having is paying £1.2k for a 5080 which would have been a 5070 (at best) a few years ago, with only 16gb of ram in 2025 really does not sit well. Even if its more sensible.
 
Qitarah said:
I currently have:

850w seasonic PSU

I currently run a 1440p OLED and a 1440p IPS side by side.

What do you guys think?
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If only one of these is an OLED then I presume you only use one of these for gaming. I’ll assume these are standard size monitors and not ultra epic widescreens that make a 1440p monitor more demanding.

IMO a 5090 would be totally overkill, yes. At 1440p you are often going to be CPU limited before the 5090 maxes out… and you’d need a very high refresh rate monitor to make those most of these high refresh rates.

A 5080 should be more than adequate.

Keep in mind you may be pushing your luck with an 850w PSU even with a 5080 depending on what else you are doing with your PC. Whenever you get a new card / PSU, make sure you review the ‘latest’ position on the ‘cable / socket fiasco’ to inform how bothered you are about trying to strive for a safe connection - there’s about a billion posts on this already and if you’re not familiar you will probably get a good awareness of the issues / current confusion from reading the last week or so of posts in the ‘50 series technical discussion’ thread (which is a lot but there’s so many nuances and scenarios that people have that came up).

Or you can totally skip the ‘understanding’ part by just buying a new PSU that has enough headroom for your 50 series card with at least 4 pcie sockets (to use the adaptor provided with the GPU) or one that expressly states on the back of it that it has a ‘12V-6x2’ socket (and not a ‘12VHPWR’ socket) - then you have a choice of which of these two ‘safest options’ to use.
 
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Qitarah said:
The issue I'm having is paying £1.2k for a 5080 which would have been a 5070 (at best) a few years ago, with only 16gb of ram in 2025 really does not sit well. Even if its more sensible.
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Understandable concern regarding the vram, but performance wise given your upgrade path you will still see a significant improvement.

Edit - and on balance, subtracting the current market rate for the 3080, sans the new PSU, it seems more sensible to me.
 
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Both monitors are just used for gaming yea, and both are just standard 27 inch monitors, the OLED has 240 hz refresh rate and the IPS is 16x hz.

That's a fair point though, you're right it would make more sense to just bite the bullet and get rid of my current Seasonic (its a good one mind you, 850w platinum etcetc) its not old old but it's not an ATX 3.0 so yea.

Thanks.
 
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