Nvidia RTX 5080 beats 4090 at ray tracing, according to leak

Soonyou’ll be able to buy a GPU that’s faster than the mighty RTX 4090 at ray tracing, but for a much lower price, if the latest rumors about the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 are to be believed. Maybe Nvidia will have learned its lesson from the original RTX 4080 launch and not give it a ridiculous price too. We can all but hope.The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 is undoubtedly the best graphics card you can buy right now, but it’s also extremely expensive, with prices for this 4K gaming GPU starting from $1,799 on Newegg right now. However, if these rumors are to be believed, the RTX 5080 will offer more performance for less money.According to X (formerly known as Twitter) tech leaker AGF (@XpeaGPU), “GB203 is close to AD102 in raster and faster in RT,” with GB203 being the rumored codename for the GPU on which the RTX 5080 is expected to be based. Basically, if this leak is true, the RTX 5080 will be even faster at processing realistic ray traced lighting in games than the current RTX 4090, thou...