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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

GoRedwings19 said:
MY EYES IT BURNS WITH FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEE...............I'M MELLLLLTING....i'M MELTING *cough* *splutters*

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That is my genuine reaction to anyone with a multicoloured RGB build. But i'm boring asf, and just go all black each time (it's under my desk anyway).

In my head, less RGB = more money on parts that make a difference. e.g. buying a mid tier 5090 over a GameRock :D
 
Absolutely Clueless said:
That is my genuine reaction to anyone with a multicoloured RGB build. But i'm boring asf, and just go all black each time (it's under my desk anyway).

In my head, less RGB = more money on parts that make a difference. e.g. buying a mid tier 5090 over a GameRock :D
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I actually like RGB… more shinies…
 
Upgraded to a 5090 yesterday which resulted in a stressful day of hard crashes and very underwhelming benchmark results. I knew about the pcie 5 problems but didn’t bother checking that until this morning as my mobo is gen 4 and presumed it would be set to that. Checked in gpu-z and for some reason the auto setting in bios had set it to pcie 1.1. I’ve now changed it to pcie 4 and it looks like problem solved. Benchmarks now in line with average 5090 scores and no crashes so far. Now time to do some undervolting.:D
 
So now that the hype and everything has gone and the 5090 is more of a 4090ti with some AI bonuses, what would a healthy 3080ti replacement be that has more vram but not necessarily more power? I’m using this in the home server at the moment which I may game on on occasion. The main pc has an 4090fe so I guess the other option is to go 5090fe and move the 4090fe in to the server? I’d rather not spend more than £1k with the same of the 3080ti on top of that needs to be considered.

One final option is to find an 9070xt and give that a go perhaps? Worst case I could use the 9070xt to game (I mostly play WoW @5k) and put the 4090fe in the server selling the 3080ti and making the change for about £400 all in which gives me plenty of room in the budget for a 9950x3d…. Thoughts?
 
Andrew Moore said:
One final option is to find an 9070xt and give that a go perhaps? Worst case I could use the 9070xt to game (I mostly play WoW @5k) and put the 4090fe in the server selling the 3080ti and making the change for about £400 all in which gives me plenty of room in the budget for a 9950x3d…. Thoughts?
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If it allows you to get a 9950x3d, I think the 9070xt is an absolute no brainer. It's a superb card and doing that would be a better use of your cash IMHO.

Edit: Couldn't the 9070xt not go into the server and you pair the 4090 with the 9950x3d?
 
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heatonpkmassive said:
If it allows you to get a 9950x3d, I think the 9070xt is an absolute no brainer. It's a superb card and doing that would be a better use of your cash IMHO.

Edit: Couldn't the 9070xt not go into the server and you pair the 4090 with the 9950x3d?
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possibly, 12gb VRAM isn’t enough, 24gb will be plenty. 16gb, that’s on the fence to be fair, I could try it and see I guess. 3d models etc play better with nvidia though so I could end up with a side grade with just more vram taking things in to consideration.

I may actually go down the route of popping a 9950x3d in the gaming pc with the 3080ti so see if the uplift from the cpu compensates moving from the 4090. It probably won’t though..
 
Absolutely Clueless said:
It can be done tastefully with just a single colour, often white. I do draw the line at not installing bloatware software just to turn off RGB, so my motherboard etc may have some which I leave.
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Well I have moved away from the likes of Corsair and Lian li. I like the cases which have hardware lighting control. Less software to deal with and using up resources running int he back ground.
 
Andrew Moore said:
possibly, 12gb VRAM isn’t enough, 24gb will be plenty. 16gb, that’s on the fence to be fair, I could try it and see I guess. 3d models etc play better with nvidia though so I could end up with a side grade with just more vram taking things in to consideration.

I may actually go down the route of popping a 9950x3d in the gaming pc with the 3080ti so see if the uplift from the cpu compensates moving from the 4090. It probably won’t though..
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It's not even close. At 4k/5k Where most of the cpu bottleneck is mostly removed for the most part besides a few games like Baldurs gate, flight simulator 2024 etc. The 4090 is not only signicantly faster than a 3080ti but it runs cooler and more or less the same wattage. It's a more efficient chip architecture than the 3xxx series.
 
GoRedwings19 said:
It's not even close. At 4k/5k Where most of the cpu bottleneck is mostly removed for the most part besides a few games like Baldurs gate, flight simulator 2024 etc. The 4090 is not only signicantly faster than a 3080ti but it runs cooler and more or less the same wattage. It's a more efficient chip architecture than the 3xxx series.
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CPUs are definitely more important now than even just 4-5 years ago, especially if you have a high end monitor, e.g., 4k 240hz. That, combined with DLSS, means you are CPU-limited reasonably frequently if aiming for high fps, especially in the latest AAA games. DLSS4 looks good even in performance mode that a 9800X3D can become the limiting factor when trying to get above 180 fps.

I upgraded from the 7800X3D to 9800X3D, and it will also instantly buy the 10800X3D. It’s very hard to dial down settings to improve CPU performance!
 
Absolutely Clueless said:
That is my genuine reaction to anyone with a multicoloured RGB build. But i'm boring asf, and just go all black each time (it's under my desk anyway).

In my head, less RGB = more money on parts that make a difference. e.g. buying a mid tier 5090 over a GameRock :D
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I can't believe it's 2025 and there's still crying about RGB, but it's over dude, the market has spoken. Let people enjoy small pretty things. The idea that you're leaving performance on the table by having RGB is the most boomer **** that's ever been floated
 
kute said:
I can't believe it's 2025 and there's still crying about RGB, but it's over dude, the market has spoken. Let people enjoy small pretty things. The idea that you're leaving performance on the table by having RGB is the most boomer **** that's ever been floated
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You clearly haven’t been outside of these forums. Expensive RGB fans and an entry level GPU is not uncommon :D

Anyway, back to the 50 series. Hopefully supply continues to ramp up throughout April.
 
At Nvidia's request, reviewers will not receive any 8gb 5060ti cards to review


Nvidia would prefer to hide the performance issues that the 8gb card has

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GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB 3DMark performance leaks out - VideoCardz.com

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is just around the corner Just synthetic benchmarks. Gaming reviews of the RTX 5060 Ti are already underway. Based on the feedback from reviewers, the main concern for the RTX 5060 Ti is its memory capacity. The 8GB version will undoubtedly have lower gaming performance...
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beany_bot said:
5080 has arrived.
Do I need to do anything re drivers going from 3080 or just simply swap and play.
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Mine arrived, I did the swap and used NVidia app to just do a quick reinstall - No issues so far.

Huge overclocking headroom on the 5080's from what I can tell so far (and from reading online), seems to bring it much closer to the 4090! So very much worth doing that also.

Managed to get +425 on the core clock.
 
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