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the RTX 5080 is newer, faster on paper, and the wrong pick for local AI. here's the 8GB reason why
Blackwell versus the old flagship, and for once the newer card loses. The 5080's 16GB caps what you can run; the 4090's 24GB doesn't. For local models, capacity beats the spec sheet — with the measured numbers to prove it.
Ravi Malhotra · 2h ago · 9 min