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I'm convinced the MSI 5080 box photo that's going around is a fake (even considering image upscaling the text looks AI), but when I see anything from the known Kopite and Chiphell forum accounts I pay a bit more attention.

Since RTX 50 is on the same node as 40 I don't think we can expect any massive generational uplifts so I guess that's why it makes sense that they're going to pump more power into them. I'm still going to wait until 5090 is released to make my decision. The previous official Galax 5090 leak that was taken down had "neural rendering" as a bullet point but that's missing from the (IMO fake) MSI 5080 box. If that's true that's all the more reason that together with 32gb of vram that while it might be the best gaming card it's also more for prosumer and AI use cases. For once price is absolutely no consideration but if the 5080 can perform considerably better than a 4090 (I'd love 30% but on the same node I'm expecting around 10-20%) I'd rather grab that than a prosumer AI card that wants 575w of juice. That's even despite the 5080 not looking like it packs the specs of what an 80 class card should have.

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I bought all my parts aside from waiting for the GPU now. 9800x3d and the motherboard are waiting for stock but orders should ship by 13th Jan anyway. I'll probably just be going for the rtx5080...I mean it's gonna be a massive upgrade on my old PC anyway and I'm not planning to upgrade from 1440p 165hz monitor any time soon at least

I could afford the 5090 I just dunno if I wanna spend that much $$$...especially without a 4k monitor. I ordered a 1000w atx 3.1 PSU which I guess could handle the 5090 most likely but ehh what's it gonna be, like $3.5k?
 
If pricing is to be believed then expect 5090 to be $4-4.5k. I'm the same where money isn't an issue and even bought a 1200w ATX 3.1 knowing that since they're not upgrading the node they'll just feed it more power than 4000 it will have a higher power requirement (and to future proof any future RTX 6000 purchase) but the more I look at it the more I don't want to spend it. 5080 may launch at the same price of the 4080 so expect low to mid $2ks. Sure the 4090 is better than the 4080 but besides Alan Wake 2 where a 4090 would have been nice there hasn't been anything I wasn't able to run at the resolution and settings I want. 5000 is going to come with better RT performance so that will pick up a lot of the improvement (along with the rumoured DLSS4) and I don't care about the 16gb VRAM as that's on the 4080 and I haven't had any issues with it at 3440x1440. Those complaining mostly about 16gb VRAM play at 4k with no upscaling and that's the only reason I can think of that the 5090 would be more beneficial for gaming.

I'm constantly flip flopping but at this stage I'm leaning back towards the 5080 and if in 12 months the 5080ti is released on the GB202 with 24gb of GDDR7 as a cut down 5090 opposed to the 5080 which is a full GB203-400 and for some reason VRAM suddenly becomes an issue then I'll consider it then.
 

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