Reddit user EssDee3D has recently bought an NVIDIA RTX 5080 Founders Edition card, but the card user ended up receiving says “RTX 5090” on the shroud. Did the user got lucky? Not quite – it turns out this was a manufacturing error.
RTX 5080, Or RTX 5090?
The Reddit user further verified this by checking the telemetry, which the GPU reports itself as RTX 5080 in Windows and the GPU-Z software (with the video uploaded as proof). This means the model bought was indeed the correct one, it just so happens to have a cosmetic mishap.
You might wonder, how does RTX 5090, a card that comes with huge power requirements, ended up getting mixed with RTX 5080? Keep in mind that while RTX 5090 does indeed pull 575W of power, NVIDIA has engineered some very exotic designs to fit everything in a dual-slot form factor. In fact, it shares the exact same footprint as the RTX 5080, with the latter using a less sophisticated cooling system to keep costs in check.
That’s the most likely reason why both cards can be mixed up, though this does mean that there is some room for improvement as far as quality assurance is concerned over at Foxconn, which is responsible for the production of NVIDIA FE cards. Still, while the users don’t get ahold of the RTX 5090 by surprise, it’s still a pretty unique RTX 5080 FE that you most likely won’t see anywhere else.
Source: Videocardz
Pokdepinion: At least it works, and the user can try to trick those unaware for jokes.
