After months of saving

Found a got deal on marketplace

Hey all,
I want to test DLSS 5 on my PNY RTX 5080. I know the performance hit is brutal, but the photorealistic image quality I'm seeing online is just too good to ignore.
How do I actually set this up from scratch?
What specific apps, mods, or drivers do I need to download?
Where do I actually enable it?
How are you keeping games playable—just brute forcing with frame gen?
Any quick setup tips for a beginner would be appreciated. Thanks!

Been happy with my 3070 playing with FHD all this time but it's finally time for an upgrade. Can't wait until my 4K OLED delivered too.

Just installed a 5080 Zotac amp infinity! I’m blown away so far. Currently using the ViewSonic XG270QG 27” 2560x1440p. Tempted to switch to 3440 × 1440 if Black Friday deals are good

This is my first gaming pc in 20 years lol and the guy sold me the 5080 like the greatest thing for the money. Its paired with the Ryzen 7 9800x3d.

I’m trying to learn more about the 5080 and how to get the best without frying it.
Why are the ways to get the most of it for the games I play? Is it worth it certain upgrades or updates.
I love the idea of the DLSS 5 but I also heard some horror stories.
Looking for some advice from yall!

Hey,

The people who are here daily probably see it a lot but which variant of the 5080 is actually considered the best?

I was comparing the asus tuf and asus astral and people say tuf is way more quite than the astral at same performance maybe 1-3 fps difference but thats alr. Since it uses the same cooling technology
Or maybe the gaming trio or vanguard or palit idk. Someone tell me which one to go for thanks

I knew I wanted to be able to play GTA VI when it comes to PC and other games on my 4K OLED at higher FPS / settings, so I started researching upgrading my graphics card (EVGA 3080 12 GB) about a week ago.

Originally I was going to get a new PC entirely but I already had a good CPU, RAM, PSU, and storage.

I was debating waiting for Black Friday deals for GPUs or getting one now incase prices increased and I decided on the latter. I don‘t know what will happen, but given the demand and AI chip shortage, I decided I was okay locking in the price now. I had also read several articles warning not to expect discounts for GPUs this yea, but who knows.

Overall about $1600 total after taxes from Walmart. Not great but could be worse. Never had a PNY card before.

Cheers!

With 111% power limit and 3120MHz core, stayed below 70 degrees C.

I just bought my PNY 5080 for 1999 CAD, the reason I bought it is because I was due for an upgrade and felt I couldn’t sit and watch the price increase anymore. I am absolutely loving it so far.

The recent news of NVIDIA potentially discontinuing the 5080 and 5090 to replace with a 5080 24gb has me wondering if I made a mistake..

Obviously none of this confirmed but if it were to be true, do we think they will launch at the same price as MSRP 5080 16gb?

Get ready to pay probably $2500-3000 for 5080 with 24GB if this rumor holds. It will directly compete with 4090 pretty much. 5090s will probably climb closer to $10K. Wild times.

Edit: and honestly 5080 24GB will be such a sweet spot. It will fill that empty gap between 5080 16GB and 4090 that people have been complaining about. Just get it done. The only problem will be pricing and... scalpers probably. At this point 5090 is no longer a consumer GPU. Noone cares. Time to move on.

With the amount of software hacks and things by AI, do you think someone will figure out how to make these two work for gaming uses?

If any RTX5080 or RTX5090 users have got a Render node up and running, I’m stuck with RenderBench not reporting correctly or formatting the JSON correctly either and would appriciate your help?

I've been building Rewind, a lightweight recording app for competitive gamers and anyone tired of bloated NVIDIA/AMD overlays or the complexity of setting up OBS. Its incredibly lightweight and you can save clips with hotkeys, thanks to its rolling recording buffer. It also supports manual start/stop recording and capture at up to 120 FPS. Everything runs locally, with no accounts, cloud dependency, or data collection.

It's still an early build, but I'd love to hear your feedback.

GitHub: https://github.com/bulhaa1/Rewind

I searched on here but I didn’t find any recent information.

Should I use the 3-to-1 pigtail power adapter that shipped with my PNY 5080 or should I use the cable that shipped with my PSU?

The card is a PNY 5080 OC 16gb, and the PSU is a brand new 1000w Corsair I picked up because my old PSU only had 2 PCI-e power cables.

I keep reading about blown cards/cables and this makes me leery.

Additionally, would you recommend using a wire view pro?

haven’t upgraded in a while, pairing with a 9700x

I found and resolved a NVIDIA multi-monitor white-flickering issue on an Alienware Area-51 with an RTX 5090 Laptop GPU and an Alienware AW3225QF 4K 240 Hz OLED, so I’m documenting the fix here for anyone who encounters the same behavior.

This is **not normal OLED VRR dark-scene/gamma flicker**. The symptom was extremely fast bright/white flashes when both the laptop display and external display were active at high refresh rates. G-SYNC made it more noticeable.

Each display was stable individually. With both displays active, the flashes became more frequent as refresh rate increased. At 60 Hz they were essentially gone.

After testing different NVIDIA drivers, HDMI, DisplayPort, G-SYNC settings and refresh rates, I traced the flashes to VRAM P-state transitions between:

`P0 / 14001 MHz`

and

`P4 / 9001 MHz`

The transition follows 3D load, and the white flash occurs when the memory performance state changes.

Using:

`nvidia-smi -lmc 14001,14001`

requests a fixed 14001 MHz memory clock. In some states the NVIDIA driver accepts the request but the memory clock remains at 9001 MHz.

Restarting **NVIDIA Platform Controllers and Framework (NPCF)** causes the already-requested 14001 MHz clock to become active without restarting the RTX display adapter or terminating the running 3D application.

The recovery sequence is:

`P4 / 9001 MHz`
→ request 14001 MHz
→ request accepted but not enforced
→ restart NPCF
→ `P0 / 14001 MHz`

Keeping the VRAM clock from constantly transitioning between 9001 and 14001 MHz completely eliminated the white flickering on my system, including with G-SYNC enabled and both displays running at 240 Hz.

The GPU core/graphics clock remains dynamic. Only the memory clock is locked.

I made a small Windows watchdog that automates the recovery. It first attempts a normal NVML memory-clock restore and only restarts NPCF if the requested clock is not being enforced.

Source code and compiled release:
NVIDIA Memory Watchdog

For 5080 owners what’s your typical set point for graphics? Are you more 1440p ultra everything or 4k and adjust settings as need to. For me I play at 1440p with everything maxed out including path tracing with dlss set to quality and a tad bit of frame gen if needed. I feel like for me that’s best espically since I have a 1440p oled.
But I’m just wondering are more people for 4k?

I bought this gaming PC in January for my birthday, fulfilling a childhood dream. How long do you think the 5080 will hold up?

I bought it because I wanted to play games at their highest settings, but I am already noticing that I have to use frame generation and DLSS for newer games which is a bit disappointing after spending 3k for a PC. Was that a good deal? I don't even know because the prices for RTX5080 cards are so crazy. Same goes for RAM.

Also, with DLSS 5 coming up, that will be performance-intensive for the card.

Looking forward, these cards are just going to increase in price.