Here’s a chance to beat the incoming price rises and grab yourself a great GPU upgrade. Overclockers UK is currently having a flash sale on RTX 5080 stock, with prices now as low as £949.99 for a Palit or Gainward card. Not only that, but if you buy it now, you’ll also get a free copy of Resident Evil: Requiem, which you’ll be able to run in its full path-traced glory on your new GPU.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080
£1,199.99 £949.99
“Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 strolls out leisurely, aware it’s uncontested. There’s a calm air about it, knowing nothing out there hits the same beat and won’t for quite some time.” – Read our RTX 5080 review.
While that price isn’t quite down to the largely mythical £909 MSRP quoted on Nvidia’s website, it’s substantially lower than the figures we’ve recently seen for this top-end GPU. The aforementioned Gainward card was recently going for £1,199.99, for example, and £1,144.99 is the lowest RTX 5080 price on Amazon right now. With all sorts of horror stories about the DRAM shortage fuelling incoming GPU price rises, particularly for 16GB cards, if you’re thinking about upgrading to a top-end GPU, now is a good time to do it.
A number of other RTX 5080 models also have comparatively reduced prices on the site, with an overclocked Inno3D card now going for £999.95, for example, and an MSI Ventus 3X OC card priced at £1,099.99.
RTX 5080 is the best GPU for under a grand right now, offering around half the spec of the mighty RTX 5090. AMD has nothing that can compete with this GPU, either in terms of rasterisation or ray tracing performance, and it also has the full support of Nvidia’s DLSS 4.5 suite behind it, including multi frame gen.
As we found in our RTX 5080 review, this means you can run a demanding game like Alan Wake 2 at 2560×1440, with maxed out settings, at a super-smooth average of 261fps, as shown in the graph above. That builds on the already-solid 86fps you get from enabling Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling tech at the Quality setting, and makes for a smooth, great-looking gaming experience.
We doubt these prices will be around for long. It looks to us as though Overclockers is looking to liquidate a load of stock and free up some cash flow, but future GPU stock is likely to have a considerably higher price. With all the chaos going on right now, we’d be surprised to see RTX 5080 cards dropping below the £1,000 mark again this year.
