A manufacturing fault left one Redditor with a new Nvidia RTX 5080 gaming GPU masquerading as an RTX 5090, thanks to a labeling fault.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 is an efficient, sleek member of the latest graphics card line, and the Multi-Frame Generation tech is eye-catching.

Is Nvidia's RTX 5080 really faster than the RTX 4090? See how this new card performs and whether it's worth upgrading from older models

MSI and Asus have raised the prices of Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 gaming GPUs by hundreds of dollars, just a week after the launch.

It’s disappointing to see Nvidia has stuck with 16GB of VRAM on the RTX 5080. AMD’s RX 7900 XTX offers 24GB, and while the RTX 5080 delivers better performance for now, it may well hit video memory limits in 4K gaming in the future.

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).

Get your hands on the new Blackwell GPU with our guide on where to find the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 in stock near you.

Nvidia warns of 'significant demand' for the graphics cards, which go on sale early Thursday morning. Still, Nvidia says it'll be shipping more supplies to retailers every day.

Nvidia’s newest RTX 50-series graphics cards have been hot, hot, hot, selling out within minutes upon launch. And though our reviews of the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 spotted some big flaws, especially in the former,

In less than an hour after going on sale last week, Nvidia’s latest GeForce RTX 5080 and 5090 graphics cards have all disappeared from physical and online retailers across the US. The inventory dried up so fast that it seems like Nvidia may not have had many to sell in the first place,