The best argument for grabbing a 5080 right now, if you can find one at $999 in the first place, is that the only cards that come close to its performance are either way more expensive than they're supposed to be (the 4080 Super) or not cheap enough to justify the Nvidia-specific features you give up (AMD's Radeon 7900 XTX).

NVidia's RTX 5090 is its latest and greatest graphics processing unit for gamers, with a shocking $2k price tag and the promise of unfathomable levels of gamering. But top retailer Best Buy warned shoppers not to camp out or queue in the cold for launch day: they won't be in stock.