★★★★★Well designed card and a nice upgrade from my RTX 3080 in every way.
This is a stock speeds, 3 fan air cooled RTX 5080 GPU. It uses 3 expansion slot attachment method and unlike with many other cards, the cooler is secured to the IO shield via 3 screws, which makes the whole assembly more solid and less likely to suffer from card droop. I still used a card support brace in my build, but this particular card seems to need it less than most other cards do.
The 3 cooling fans run quieter than the ones on my RTX 3080 and the whole card runs noticeably cooler, which was a nice bonus.
The card has been running completely stable for me and the performance has been rather impressive. I've been playing Doom: The Dark Ages at 3440x1440 with everything maxed out, DLSS 4 set to "Quality" and getting well over 100 fps. With the DLSS 4 set to TDAA (no upscaling happening), the game still runs at well over 60 fps. However, I really don't notice any image quality difference and thus, just keep it at "Quality".
Overall, this card runs Doom: The Dark Ages as well as my RTX 3080 ran Doom Eternal. So I'm very happy.
Yeah, having to pay 140% MSRP for it sucked, but it is what it is. I'm reviewing a product - not the seller or market conditions. Thus, I'm giving it 5 stars.
Edit: Also, my card definitely doesn't have any "coil wine". In fact, the card is very quiet all around - probably the quietest upper mid-range card I've had since the fanless days back in the late 90s. I also have to disagree with the other reviewer when it comes to build quality compared to an eVGA RTX 3080, which was also the card that this PNY replaced. More precisely, I had a slightly overclocked, 3 fan model. To me, this PNY has better build quality and a more solid feel. The eVGA sagged like crazy from the start for me. This PNY has zero initial sag. Probably because the cooler is attached to the I/O plate, in addition to a more solid base plate. Overall, the card feels nice and heavy duty to me. You just have to keep in mind that I always get the cards that are at or close enough to base specs - not the super decked out, turbo overclocked, fancy cooler expensive models. So yeah, as a base model card, I think that this one is very good.
MasterBladesman · 2025-06-15 · via amazon
★★★★★Great performance great seller
Love the card, great performance without the “premium” tax, great sellers would buy again!
Freddy Mendez · 2026-01-13 · via amazon
★★★★★Another home run for PNY
Another win by PNY. This is my second GPU I’ve bought from them. Works great.Top tier graphics almost 0 noise. Multiple fans for cooling. The card itself is just great quality. Everyone complains about the price but if you’re looking at this size of GPUs you should already expect to shell out the big bucks. And the RGB and card itself just looks great.
Joseph · 2025-07-27 · via amazon
★★★★★Potential hearing damage? Fans sound like jet engines!
When installed, the card's fans are quiet for "basic" operations - email, watching movies and basic activities excluding games. When a game with somewhat high graphics needs was started, within a few seconds the fans began roaring like jet engines. The noise drowned out the game audio. While the fan noise itself might not be enough to cause hearing damage, I did not increase game audio as it might be so loud to overcome the fans that the volume might lead to hearing damage. Do not know if the unit is defective or if it is a defective design. Returned the GPU: it is not good for a computer setting by the user!
