With their heavy reliance on AI frame generation to get their big frame rate boosts, Nvidia’s latest RTX 5000 GPUs have proved divisive among commentators, and renowned tech privacy whistleblower Edward Snowden has waded into the discussion, describing the release of the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 as a “monopolistic crime” on social media.
While you do indeed need to enable Multi Frame Gen to get the most out of the new Nvidia GPU, as we found in our recent RTX 5080 review, we liked its $999 price tag (assuming you can find any RTX 5080 stock), especially after Nvidia priced the RTX 4080 at $1,199 when it first came out. The lack of competition is undoubtedly a factor here, though, with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT only expected to challenge the RTX 5070, rather than the 5080.
It’s specifically the amount of VRAM on the 5080 and 5070 that appears to have pushed Snowden’s buttons, however. “Endless next-quarter thinking has reduced the Nvidia brand to ‘F-tier value for S-tier prices,’” said Snowden in a post on X (formerly Twitter). He added that the RTX “5070 should have had 16GB VRAM minimum,” and that the 5080 should have come in 24GB and 32GB options, with the RTX 5090 available in 32GB and 48GB models. “Releasing a $1,000+ GPU in 2025 with a crippling 16GB is a monopolistic crime against the consumer,” says Snowden.
While we don’t think there’s any need for a 48GB version of the RTX 5090 for gaming, or indeed a 32GB 5080, we did find that the lack of VRAM was already...
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