Question Looking at timing for buying a new RTX 5080, thought?

Vanz_000

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Have been waiting for the RTX 5080 to drop in price and it has been steadily dropping since feb, here are some of the latest prices, link to Amazon pricing = here

But then I saw this article the other day regarding tariffs, and went uh oh, link = here

I’m not in a rush to buy, but would probably like to buy it by the end of 2025. The lowest price I've seen so far is about $1350, and would like it to buy it when it is under about $1100.

what do you all expect to happen with the GPU prices? Now I’m not sure if I expect them to keep falling or spike up…

I'm considering just pulling the trigger now and eating the gap that I am shooting for... which is at about $250 right now ($1350-$1100)...

Thoughts?

Vanz
 
Have you considered the 5070 Ti? Not that much slower and is available at $900.

Still, Microcenter has cards at $1200 if you can make the trip for less than $150, and maybe pick up anything else you might need, that might be worth it.

Until the whole tariff thing has worked out I would say buy literally right now, or wait until next gen.
 
I agree if you need it buy it nobody can predict future prices.

Dude, GTX 1070 8 GB Video Card, time for an upgrade...

How to get it past the wife/girlfriend...

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I had this same decision the last few weeks. Last week the Micro Center near me had restocked 25 PNY 5080's at $1,100 (non-RGB) and they sold out within a couple of days. Next cheapest option was the RGB model for $200 more. They have a few Asus and Gigabyte but they are really quite pricey.

With the unknown tariff issues that continue, I went to Micro center today and picked up the PNY RGB version. Last RTX was PNY and it's been great.

Like others have said, with the way things are, it is what it is.

What are your PC specs? If your PC is as old as the gpu you may be better off re-allocating your budget for a new build.
 
I agree if you need it buy it nobody can predict future prices.

"Need"... well it's a video game playing component, so I wouldn't say its anything I need. Sure, if I truly needed it, I wouldn't hesitate, I'd go and buy it now. It's a nice to have luxury entertainment toy in my opinion. So I'm trying to balance the buying time over say the next 6 months to a year vs. getting a toy.

Sure, no once can predict future prices, that's super obvious, but I am interested in people's opinions and thoughts regarding the impact of tariffs and the past history of high end GPU princes dropping over time (I don't really recall how this went in the past, hopefully others can chime in on what they experienced)...

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I had this same decision the last few weeks. Last week the Micro Center near me had restocked 25 PNY 5080's at $1,100 (non-RGB) and they sold out within a couple of days. Next cheapest option was the RGB model for $200 more. They have a few Asus and Gigabyte but they are really quite pricey.

With the unknown tariff issues that continue, I went to Micro center today and picked up the PNY RGB version. Last RTX was PNY and it's been great.

Like others have said, with the way things are, it is what it is.

What are your PC specs? If your PC is as old as the gpu you may be better off re-allocating your budget for a new build.

interesting...

PC is about a year old, with decent components, but a cheap "bridge" GPU (loaner from a friend, an RTX 3070, he recently upgraded his GPU) as a place holder until I could get a RTX 5080... so the RTX 5080 would be the last piece in an fairly decent and recent PC upgrade that I would be really happy with...