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Better value bust up: 5080 vs. 5070 Ti

Table of Contents Table of Contents Pricing and availability Specs Performance Neither are great, but the 5070 Ti is superior value.

The Nvidia RTX 50-series is one of the most controversial graphics card launches in many years, but that doesn’t stop the top cards being some of the best you can buy — if you can find them at a fair price. Two of the top options worth considering are the RTX 5080 and 5070 Ti: two powerful GPUs with lots of fast memory, plenty of CUDA cores, and the latest generations of RT and tensor cores.

But how do these two cards stack up? With prices flying wild, here’s how to nail down which graphics card is best for you.

Both the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti are technically available in that they have both been officially launched and have their recommended retail prices: $1,000 and $750, respectively. However, those aren’t realistic, as third-parties control pricing for the 5070 Ti, and have vastly outstripped it; The ongoing Trump tariffs are driving prices higher across the board, too.

Stock levels are almost non-existent due to ongoing production problems — leading some cards to ship without the right internal hardware – so pricing has gone completely bananas, on top of the manufacturer-mandated price rises.

At the time of writing, the RTX 5070 Ti is sometimes available for around $800, but you’re much more likely to find one at around $1,000. The RTX 5080 is going for as much as $2,000, but you can sometimes find them between $1,400 and $1,800.

Nvidia RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti CUDA Cores 10,752 8960 RT Cores 84, 4th generation 70, 4th generation Tensor Cores 336, 5th generation 280, 5th generation Boost clock [website] [website] Memory size 16GB GDDR7 16GB GDDR7 Memory bus 256-bit 256-bit Memory speed 30Gbps 28Gbps Memory bandwidth 960GBps 896GBps TBP 360W 320W.

The on-paper differences between these two graphics cards are relatively minor, giving us our first glimpse of what is in actuality, quite close real-world performance. The RTX 5080 has 20% more CUDA cores, RT cores, and Tensor cores, but at roughly the same clock speeds. Memory quantities are the same, with only the slightly faster speed of the GDDR7 making a real difference to the overall bandwidth — and even then, it’s minor.

Wattage demands aren’t insignificant, but 13% isn’t anything crazy. If you have a PSU that’s capable of handling the RTX 5070 Ti, it’ll almost certainly be enough for the 5080, t00.

We tested the RTX 5080 when it first debuted, and found it a very capable graphics card — albeit one that falls behind both the RTX 5090 and RTX 4090, by enough of a margin that 4090 owners must be very happy with their last-gen purchase.

Although we haven’t had a chance to test the RTX 5070 Ti, yet, it’s an easy one to compare, because it’s about as powerful as an RTX 4080 Super. In fact, the 4080 Super is slightly faster in some cases, though the added multi frame gen support with the RTX 50-series does give it an advantage in certain games.

The 7900 XTX isn’t a bad analogy for the 5070 Ti in non-RT games, but when ray tracing is turned on the AMD cards fall far behind, so it’s not a universal analog.

In Nvidia’s own graphs, it claimed that the 5070 Ti was around 20% faster than the 4070 Ti (non-Super) which kind of works out in the wider third-party testing.

Although the RTX 5080 is the stronger card, it only works out around 10-15% faster than the 5070 Ti and it does it while demanding more power, and with a price that’s at least 50% higher.

Neither are great, but the 5070 Ti is advanced value.

In a normal graphics card generation where there’s some immediate competition from AMD at every price point and the last-generation is still in stock, we’d almost certainly be suggesting you avoid the RTX 50-series — and indeed, until prices calm down, you should probably still do so. But it’s not a normal GPU generation. It’s one of the most catastrophic we’ve seen in years.

But! If you’re going to buy one of these cards, where should you put your money? It’s pretty obvious: The RTX 5070 Ti. It’s not a great card when compared to the year-old, last-generation 4070 Ti Super, but it is faster. It’s not as fast as the 5080, but it’s pretty close (especially with overclocking) and you can often find it for close to two thirds of the price. That’s huge.

It just isn’t worth spending $500+ more on a 5080 to maybe get 10% added performance.

But superior yet? Wait out either of these cards. Wait for stock to resume, prices to come down, and AMD to offer an alternative that might encourage Nvidia to correct course and make its cards more affordable and more capable for the money it’s demanding. A boy can dream.

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Oppo releases wireless earbuds with 12 hours of battery life from the buds, 54 hours from the case – but don't get excited about the features

54 hours of playback time via the charging case.

Bluetooth [website] (SBC and AAC) connectivity.

US pricing isn't confirmed but the previous model is $35.

The Oppo Enco Air earbuds have been respectable budget-priced AirPods alternatives since the first generation shipped in 2021, and the latest generation follow in that tradition. They don't come with a big list of fancy functions, but they're solid with exceptional battery life.

The battery in the charging case is a relatively large 560mAh, and ; just in the buds, battery life is still a huge 12 hours. And while there's no ANC or Hi-Res Audio support (which helps with the long battery life – though 12 hours is massive by any standard) the specification isn't bad for the price.

Oppo Enco Air 4i: key aspects and pricing.

The Enco Air 4i are IP55 rated for water and dust resistance and they come with Bluetooth [website] with relatively low latency: Oppo says that in gaming mode it's 47ms. It's critical to note that while the Bluetooth version is the most recent it doesn't appear to come with the full set of audio codecs: the listed specifications only mention SBC and AAC.

The drivers are [website], slightly smaller than the [website] ones in the 3i, and you can adjust the audio profile in-app with the 6-band graphic equalizer. There are built-in mics for calling, and with a weight of just [website] the buds should be comfortable for even long listening sessions.

We don't know the US, UK or Aus launch date yet but we do know that these earbuds are going to be extremely affordable: the Chinese price is 99 yuan, which is roughly $14. Of course there are currency differences, taxes and other factors that'll make them cost a bit more than that in the US, but probably not by a huge amount: the previous version, the Enco Air 3i earbuds, retail in the US for around $35.

We'll let you know when we hear more about their launch here, to challenge our picks of the best cheap earbuds.

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