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Someone found an RTX 5080 marked down to $524.99 at Walmart. That's a $475 discount on a GPU that literally just launched. Either the pricing system had a stroke, some employee fat-fingered the markdown, or the universe briefly glitched in favor of gamers for once.
Your machine learning models could finally train at reasonable speeds. Your ray tracing could actually trace rays without your PC sounding like a jet engine. But mostly, you'd just play the same indie games you always do while this beast idles at 2% usage.
The real programming challenge here is figuring out how to justify this purchase to your significant other when your current GPU works "just fine" for running VS Code.
