Is the RTX 5090 really worth it over the RTX 5080 for most builds?

[Craig95]

The RTX 5090 sits at the absolute top of Nvidia's current lineup, delivering genuinely unmatched raw performance for 4K gaming and demanding creative workloads. But the price gap between it and the RTX 5080 is genuinely enormous, often costing nearly double for a performance improvement that doesn't scale proportionally in most actual games. Curious whether people think the 5090 actually justifies that premium for most builds or if it only makes sense for a genuinely narrow set of specific use cases

The case for the 5080 usually centers on it delivering something like eighty percent of the 5090's performance for roughly half the price, which is a genuinely better value proposition for the vast majority of gamers who aren't specifically pushing 4K at extremely high refresh rates. The case for the 5090 usually comes down to genuinely needing that headroom for local AI workloads or professional rendering rather than gaming specifically. Feels like the actual answer depends heavily on whether gaming or professional work is the primary use case

What's actually in your current build, and was the extra cost for the top tier card worth it in practice. Genuinely curious how people are weighing this