Nobody should buy the any of the 50 series imo the fact that the 5080 can't even get close to the 4090 and has severe pcie issues along with some CPU overhead issues especially when using upscaling is enough to make any reasonable person not go anywhere near this historically garbage generation. It is the first time since the GTX 280 from 2007 that the 80 class card has not been able to surpass or atleast match the previous generation flagship at 3/4 to half the price this shows how absolutely abhorrent the situation is and all Nvidia has done this time is hide the fact that they don't have any truly newer generation hardware.
The 5070 can't even surpass but is slower than the last generation 4070Ti and the 5070Ti is also slower than the 4080. This entire series that has been announced till now is so bad that it makes the 40 series somehow look good. Nvidia price gouged the 40 series at launch especially the 4080 and then later dropped the prices and now they are leveraging those insanely garbage prices to make this series look good because for them it's all about optics now and nothing else. I just hope that people can look through Nvidia's shady and false marketing and advertising and just buy older generations at lower prices and used prices as a lot of the used cards still have at least 6 months to over 2 years of remaining warranties and some even have full 3 years. If people don't accept this trash premise of Nvidia they won't be able to sell and will be forced to lower the prices just like the last generation and maybe then they might have a product that is a little better in terms of value.
Basically this... I ended up buying a 4070ti Super (new with 4 year warranty) i was getting at 71k and called it a day.. it has 16GB VRAM as well and if i have to settle for 16, might as well save my money.. sure, it's 25% slower than a 5080 @ 4k.. but i will manage... meanwhile will save up for the eventual 5080ti which should have actually been the 5080 and see where we land with that thing.. i actually went to the market to get a 5080 today but i JUST couldn't justify pulling the trigger..