To give a simple answer: No, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 can't muscle past the RTX 4090 in terms of gaming performance. But for those who want to nerd out over the numbers, we'll dig into them below.

NVIDIA Smooth Motion is now available to use on RTX 40-series cards thanks to the release of the new 590.26 preview driver.

Neither set of notes states specific problems that those on RTX 40-series cards will run into with the latest drivers. The First Berserker notes state that "using version 572 may cause stability ...

Graphics Cards Nvidia says it's sold twice as many RTX 50-series cards as RTX 40-series in the first 5 weeks. I'd bloody well hope so given there was essentially just the RTX 4090 for competition News ...

Nvidia gamers with older 40 and 30-series graphics cards started reporting similar issues when Nvidia released its 572.16 driver, which enabled support for the new Blackwell graphics cards.

They seemed to originate from Nvidia's 572.16 driver release, which enabled RTX 50 support. RTX 40- and 30-series cards were impacted, but the 50-series was the worst affected.

The RTX 4060 is one of the last RTX 40-series graphics cards that are still readily available around MSRP. I found one for $329 at Newegg, and it’s an overclocked model, meaning slightly faster ...

Nvidia's list of the best graphics cards is about to expand with the arrival of the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB/8GB and the RTX 5060 non-Ti. We don't know yet, but we know that they're coming.