Grab an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card for MSRP, comes with Borderlands 4

It's only taken seven months, but the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 price has finally plunged back down to the $999 US price that Nvidia originally mooted back in January 2025. Right now, you can pick up an Asus Prime RTX 5080 graphics card from Amazon for $999.99, as long as you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, and you'll even get a copy of Borderlands 4 thrown into the bargain. Meanwhile, an MSI Shadow 5080 card is going for the same price at Walmart.

I gave this GPU a solid score of 8/10 in my Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review, thanks to its superb gaming performance and full support for the latest Nvidia DLSS 4 suite, including multi-frame gen. It's helped by the lack of competition from AMD in this market segment right now, of course, but it's still the best GPU on our buying guide under $1,000. There's just one problem, which is that, in the US, it's rarely been available to buy for that price.

That situation has now changed, not only with this Asus Prime card going for $999.99 on Amazon, but you can also pick up an MSI Shadow 3X OC RTX 5080 card from Walmart for $999.99 as well. Amazon says that this is a drop in price from $1,264.99, and that's actually exactly right.

I checked the historical pricing for this card on Amazon, and it's been priced at $1,264.99 since June, with third-party Amazon sellers selling it for an average of $1,439.18 since the release date in January. It's only now that the price has dropped to $999.99, and while that's still expensive for a graphics card, it's at least not obscene.

Meanwhile, Walmart claims the MSI Shadow OC RTX 5080 card has been reduced from $1,359.99, and it also has a small overclock, with the GPU's boost clock boosted from 2,617 to 2,640MHz, with the option to apply a larger boost to 2,655MHz in the MSI Center software.

You can think of the RTX 5080 as essentially half an RTX 5090, which is fair, given that it costs half the price at MSRP. In my tests, I found it could happily enable the path-tracing Overdrive mode in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p, running at 71fps with Nvidia DLSS 4 set on the Quality mode, and you can then push it all the way up to 228fps if you enable multi-frame gen.

It also copes really well with demanding new titles such as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which it can play at 90fps at 4K with the Ultra graphics preset. Its 16GB of VRAM isn't quite enough to enable it to play the Full RT path-traced mode at 4K, but it can handle it well at 1440p, averaging 61fps with DLSS 4 on the Quality mode, and climbing up to 177fps with multi-frame gen enabled. Meanwhile, F1 24 at the Ultra high preset with all the ray tracing features enabled runs at 84fps at 4K on this GPU, even without any help from DLSS.

If you can't quite run to the cost of the RTX 5080, and that's fair, given that $999 is still very expensive, check out my Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review, as this cheaper GPU still has 16GB of VRAM and solid 2,560 x 1,440 gaming performance. If you're thinking about upgrading your whole rig, you can also read our guide to buying the best gaming CPU, where we take you through all our favorite options at a range of prices.

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