GeForce 5xxx series (Blackwell)

You know, I think I would have been happy to switch to AMD this gen if they just had made a card that was slightly faster than a 4090, I'm so sick of having a melting timebomb in my pc.
The power connector really is bad, at least with the way they have it hooked up to the card. I had mine melt with my 4090. May have been because I was using one of the janky CableMod 180 degree adapters. May have been because one of the pins on the cable going into the adapter was loose and was making poor or no contact (I have an HTPC case and the card was installed in a tight position where I could not really see the cable, so I am not sure whether the pin had backed out when in use, or if it didn't come loose until it was removed). Could have been both. Either way, it melted.

I haven't had a problem since then, but still do not trust the cable. Frankly it is a major reason why I would be wary about getting a 5090. It's not just "user error" like they tried to claim. The connector can be making bad contact despite seemingly being plugged in, or the cable can be faulty (i.e. pin loose like in my case, worn cable, etc.), and there's no way to tell until the connector has melted down and you start getting black screens.

It's absolutely ridiculous they don't at least load balance 3 sets of pins. There's so much power going through the connector that if it becomes imbalanced at all you risk having a meltdown.
 
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Apparently the AI market is slowing down and more nvidia chips are going to be directed to consumer cards? Might mean prices are reasonable-ish eventually?



And if the 5090 market can't move that many, then pushing more of those chips into 5080 (disabling stuff) may even happen.

I hope it happens, but I'm afraid the scalpers will still only be crying all the way to the bank. They'll already have made money off the launch even if supply does come back to normal. I do wonder how much sustained demand there is for a $2000+ GPU. Especially because besides the rare FE drops most of the cards are actually going for $2500+.
 

If we are lucky... we may get something that can wrap it. ZLUDA has shown the ability before... but they have never released it because they where worried about legal issues. But if nVidia is no longer going to support it... maybe now is the time.
 
aaaaand some written reviews :D

 
TechPowerUp has discovered that there are NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards in retail circulation that come with too few render units, which lowers performance. Zotac's GeForce RTX 5090 Solid comes with fewer ROPs than it should—168 are enabled, instead of the 176 that are part of the RTX 5090 specifications. This loss of 8 ROPs has a small, but noticeable impact on performance. During recent testing, we noticed our Zotac RTX 5090 Solid sample underperformed slightly, falling behind even the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Founders Edition card. At the time we didn't pay attention to the ROP count that TechPowerUp GPU-Z was reporting, and instead spent time looking for other reasons, like clocks, power, cooling, etc.


Looks like some people got a 5089 instead of a 5090.
 

So little QA were done on these chips? First the 5090 now the 5070ti... What impresses me is that the driver runs no matter how many hardware elements are functioning on the chip. Its just a perf loss... I can imagine they will check for more than just Shader units or ROP's at some point and see what RT and AI units or cache or other are enabled... I can imagine how they will sell them eventually... it'll all be 5070ti with 'up to' X number of AI RT and Shader units ect...
 
From all of the screw ups, it definitely feels a lot like Nvidia doesn't care that much about the gaming GPU market anymore. Given the rocky launch and the relatively small performance uplift, AMD seems to have chosen a really bad time to not make a high end competitor.
 
Gaming revenue is tiny for Nvidia now next to data center... I wonder if it wouldnt be better for Nvidia to lease their gpu IP out for someone else to make gaming gpus.
 
It looks like the 5070 will be a phantom edition card in Sweden, one retailer has confirmed that they will be getting 0 cards for the official launch date.
 
It looks like the 5070 will be a phantom edition card in Sweden, one retailer has confirmed that they will be getting 0 cards for the official launch date.
Ouch! Rough launch overall for nVidia on this one. Hopefully it will even out as it goes along here.
 
Well, the 5070 reviews are in, it's kind of funny how many of them had "wait until tomorrow" as their conclusion.
 
I've been happy with my 5080. I used to be kinda meh on framegen, but after having played cyberpunk path traced it kinda changed my mind. Also, I can finally play helldivers 2 illuminate maps without really bad frame drops, as the smooth motion thing (which for some reason is only a 50xx feature right now) really improved the experience 10 fold.
 
Yeah, FG is kind of worth it when you can experience graphics from the future in games like CP2077, AW 2, and Indy.

I would not use it in games where responsive controls really matter though, as it kind of feels like you're playing with vsync on at 60hz no matter how smooth the graphics on your screen is.
 
Yeah driver side FrameGen has its place. I've found it handy in a few spots as well.
 
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