GIGABYTE - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 WINDFORCE OC SFF 16G GDDR7 PCI Express 5.0 Graphics Card - Black

I had purchased an AMD RX 9070 XT when it was released because of the cheaper price. It was a great card but software was an issue more often than not it seemed like. A lot of the times the AMD software wouldn’t even run, I had to restart my pc for it to actually work but I’ve noticed that with NVIDIA I don’t have that issue. I had always had NVIDIA cards since the GTX 970 up until the 3080. I had always been happy with the software but the prices pushed me off. Now that I’m back to this 5080 I couldn’t be happier. Games run great, it stays at around 73° while playing Battlefield 6 and getting around 150 fps native resolution with no frame gen mostly max settings at 3440x1440p. Very happy with the purchase and I’m sure it’ll be future proof with the 16gb of VRAM.

Really good performance, no issues and its really quiet

Great performance. Quiet small factor card. Does what you need it to do at 4k.

Simply an awesome card. Somehow beat the bot scalpers and scored this during the second(?) 50 series drop on 2/12. Installed it two days later and it's performing like a beast. Hasn't gone over 61C yet playing at 1440p high settings 240hz. Might have to look at getting a 4k monitor for this pup, sheesh. Best Buy did me right for the 30 series and now the 50 series. Will always spend my hard earned, Nvidia-focused dollars here, even if I have to fight some scalpers. A couple things I've noticed, good and bad: -minimal, if any, coil whine -uses much less power than my 30 series with much, much higher performance. I was at 144hz but now at 240hz and the difference between this and my 3080 is stark. -not noticeably "loud" to me until 80%+ fan speeds and even then it's not as bad as I've experienced in the past with other cards. 3080 FE is a jet engine lol. -my card did NOT come with a cover for the little capacitor rectangle on the top of the card. In the listing's picture, it's shown as having some sort of a black cover. This did not exist on the card I received and I could not find anything in the box that would lead me to believe I had to install it myself. Odd. -probably isn't worth $1,270 but thanks, tariffs. This, I believe, was originally an msrp card (999.99). That would've been right on. Shame. -not even a plain white light up logo on the front like the founder's edition cards. Sad that a card this pricey doesn't have even that. Not even RGB, just a little plain white LED. Oh well. I don't really care about RBG, but it definitely tends to give products a bit more of a premium feel, especially that founder's-style white LED. Sexy. Overall, I've enjoyed the first 10 hours with it and I'm sure you will too. Good card and would recommend! Hope you guys reading this and waiting on discord servers for stock alert pings can get one! <3

This dipped below $900 in the sales, so I jumped on it, so glad I did, it makes my 3090 12GB look old and slow. it runs cool, not to loud, in normal use, when gaming I run the fans up manually when game for hours, then its gets loud, but no too bad. no issues with cable melting, not yet, but I did use the cables from my gigabyte 1000watt gold power supply, not the GPU, so I am using three outputs from the PSU to the GPU.