It’s easy to get caught up in how expensive PC gaming can be in 2025, throw up your hands, and say to hell with all of it. You don’t need an RTX 5090 to play games on PC in 2025, though. Now, more than ever before,

As we track where to buy an RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs before they hit shelves on January 30, you can grab Nvidia's next-gen graphics cards right now if you're on the market for a powerful pre-built gaming desktop PC.

The Nvidia RTX 5080 cannot match up to the raw processing of a RTX 5080, but with multi frame gen it's a card you can't ignore.