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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

hobib_ali said:
guys its saying on the news that Nvidia will rise their prices because of Trump tariffs, they will also build a new American factory and build GPU's there, Nvidia sayin they will be hit by this new tariff thing, with 5090 on a ridiculous price anyways it might be it will be way more expensive?
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Cards made in the USA will cost a lot more than those made in China Taiwan and Vietnam

Trump put further restrictions today on what cards and chips Nvidia can sell to China, causing Nvidia shares to fall heavily

AMD also getting whacked

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/chi...a-amd-warn-of-china-export-control-costs.html
 
Varys said:
Cards made in the USA will cost a lot more than those made in China Taiwan and Vietnam

Trump put further restrictions today on what cards and chips Nvidia can sell to China, causing Nvidia shares to fall heavily

AMD also getting whacked

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/chi...a-amd-warn-of-china-export-control-costs.html
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Also more bad news for ASML too, which makes the chip making equipment.


humm..

 
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hobib_ali said:
guys its saying on the news that Nvidia will rise their prices because of Trump tariffs, they will also build a new American factory and build GPU's there, Nvidia sayin they will be hit by this new tariff thing, with 5090 on a ridiculous price anyways it might be it will be way more expensive?
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I guess Mr. 'leather jacket' Jensen wasn't lying when he said "the more you buy, the more you save".
 
Rusty0611 said:
Downloaded The Last of Us Part 2 last night. First game I’ve played, so far, that draws the full 600W down the melty cable with my big overclock. I have the Xtreme Waterforce.

The frigging heat in my apartment after 30 mins was insane. After 8 beers last night I thought it would be funny (and it was to be fair) to stick my face on the front of the case where the radiator is attached. I now look like Harvey Dent from Batman.

But in all seriousness jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez the heat :D. Glad that’s going through a radiator and not into my CPU AIO…. Voltage is like 1.03V ish @ 3200Mhz ish. Think that’ll be one where I have a different profile active :D
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Rusty what's your fps like, just to compare to my undervolt? Will try 3200 when its cold lol.
Had lots of stuttering with this game but mainly resolved it. Seem to get keyboard lag as well even with frame gen off? (Only got one response on gaming thread, not any help). 5090 Astral LC, 9800x3d.
 
Vito said:
Rusty what's your fps like, just to compare to my undervolt? Will try 3200 when its cold lol.
Had lots of stuttering with this game but mainly resolved it. Seem to get keyboard lag as well even with frame gen off? (Only got one response on gaming thread, not any help). 5090 Astral LC, 9800x3d.
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Like 140-190 FPS depending on the area currently in. Max settings with motion blur off. 4K native with DLAA. Mine feels like it is running pretty smooth, no issues with stuttering or anything like that. Shame it doesn't have a benchmark to compare properly as I'm only at the start wandering around in the snow as Abby. I'm using my Xbox controller for this game so not sure about keyboard lag.

Does seem to crash every first time I open the game though, then it runs fine. No idea.
 
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Do I need the GeForce experience thingy? I have the Nvidia app. Haven’t been in the green camp since my trusty 1080Ti.

Considering the power draw I’m impressed with how cool the 5090 keeps. Seem to be topping out at 65C even on the OC version.
 
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Random thought... what if the 5000-series release, and not just the 5060 Ti, had been today? So the 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070 and 5060 Ti either all released today, or the 5090 and 5080 released today, with the other cards staggered over the next few weeks, if that makes the logistics easier.

In supply terms, we can infer that the 5090 would have sold out, but that it wouldn't have felt like a paper launch and that, as with the 4090 launch, most people who really wanted one would have been able to get one. Some models of the 5080 and 5070 Ti would have sold out, but if you wanted a card, you'd probably have been able to get one. The 5070 and 5060 Ti would have been pretty freely available. Scalpers would have had a much harder time and the genuine customers would have felt less ripped-off as a result.

The drivers would have been in better shape. While today's release doesn't seem to have been perfect, it does seem to be a big advance on where we were with those 5000-series drivers that first came out at the back end of January. Problems might have gotten lost in the noise around the launch as just the usual teething troubles, rather than becoming a major, brand-damaging story.

And while not certain, there would have been an increased chance that those early batches of cards with missing ROPs could have been caught pre-launch and pulled out of the supply chain, avoiding an embarrassing story for Nvidia.

Some problems would still have remained. The price-to-performance ratio of some of the cards still wouldn't be great. The power connectors would still be incendiary. AMD might have managed to get a first-mover advantage with the 9070 and 9070XT, but people might also have held back on those to see how the 5070 and 5070Ti turned out. Nvidia might not have been able to sell as many US cards before tariffs kicked in, though we still don't know what, if anything, will actually kick in there.

But on balance, surely there must have been some good reasons for Nvidia not to rush things out in January, when it's only really now starting to feel like the 5000 series is "ready"?
 
Rogueywon said:
Random thought... what if the 5000-series release, and not just the 5060 Ti, had been today? So the 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070 and 5060 Ti either all released today, or the 5090 and 5080 released today, with the other cards staggered over the next few weeks, if that makes the logistics easier.

In supply terms, we can infer that the 5090 would have sold out, but that it wouldn't have felt like a paper launch and that, as with the 4090 launch, most people who really wanted one would have been able to get one. Some models of the 5080 and 5070 Ti would have sold out, but if you wanted a card, you'd probably have been able to get one. The 5070 and 5060 Ti would have been pretty freely available. Scalpers would have had a much harder time and the genuine customers would have felt less ripped-off as a result.

The drivers would have been in better shape. While today's release doesn't seem to have been perfect, it does seem to be a big advance on where we were with those 5000-series drivers that first came out at the back end of January. Problems might have gotten lost in the noise around the launch as just the usual teething troubles, rather than becoming a major, brand-damaging story.

And while not certain, there would have been an increased chance that those early batches of cards with missing ROPs could have been caught pre-launch and pulled out of the supply chain, avoiding an embarrassing story for Nvidia.

Some problems would still have remained. The price-to-performance ratio of some of the cards still wouldn't be great. The power connectors would still be incendiary. AMD might have managed to get a first-mover advantage with the 9070 and 9070XT, but people might also have held back on those to see how the 5070 and 5070Ti turned out. Nvidia might not have been able to sell as many US cards before tariffs kicked in, though we still don't know what, if anything, will actually kick in there.

But on balance, surely there must have been some good reasons for Nvidia not to rush things out in January, when it's only really now starting to feel like the 5000 series is "ready"?
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Been living under a rock for 2 months?
Some fat old dude got elected in in America and put massive taxes on everything, so the cards were rushed out before they were ready
 
Varys said:
Been living under a rock for 2 months?
Some fat old dude got elected in in America and put massive taxes on everything, so the cards were rushed out before they were ready
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But we don't actually know whether the fat old orange dude's (don't forget the orange) taxes will actually happen. I'd put good money on them not actually hitting GPUs, as to do so would set the US back quite a long way in the tech arms race against China, at which point the scary men he's made deals with take him into a quiet room and politely threaten to break his legs. And that was always going to be the case...
 
Absolutely Clueless said:
Has anyone with a 50 series card tried the latest drivers released yesterday? Some posts on reddit suggest there is a performance improvement (in synthetic benchmarks at least, e.g. 3DMark).
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Can confirm this, although I had to reduce my undervolt/overclock by 10mhz. I'm no longer getting wild fluctuations in Steel Nomad scores either.

Although you can never tell if simply clean-re-installing drivers does the trick. I'm still getting the most horrendous g-sync flicker on desktop. It looks like my monitors are on their way out it's that bad.
 
Absolutely Clueless said:
Has anyone with a 50 series card tried the latest drivers released yesterday? Some posts on reddit suggest there is a performance improvement (in synthetic benchmarks at least, e.g. 3DMark).
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I have a definite performance improvement in Monster Hunter Wilds. I'm up around 5% on average framerate, with a big improvement in the 1% lows.

That said, I also had my first ever crash-to-desktop in Monster Hunter Wilds, with an Nvidia driver error.
 
Absolutely Clueless said:
Has anyone with a 50 series card tried the latest drivers released yesterday? Some posts on reddit suggest there is a performance improvement (in synthetic benchmarks at least, e.g. 3DMark).
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Open Issues:

[GeForce RTX 50 series notebook] Resume from Modern Standy can result in black screen [5204385]
[RTX 50 series] Cyberpunk 2077 will crash when using Photo Mode to take a screenshot with path tracing enabled [5076545]
[RTX 50 series] Red Dead Redemption 2 crashes shortly after starting a game in DX12 mode. No issue in Vulkan mode [5137042]
[RTX 50 series] Colors may appear slightly saturated in games when in game-resolution is below native resolution of monitor and display scaling is set to 100% [5158681]
Forza Horizon 5 lights flicker at night time [5038335]
Track corruption in Forza Motorsport in benchmark or night races [5201811]
[RTX 50 series] Hogwarts Legacy may display flickering when Frame Generation is enabled [5216455]
[RTX 50 series] Portal RTX displays rainbow colored artifacts after updating to GRD 576.02 [5108472]
 
Absolutely Clueless said:
Has anyone with a 50 series card tried the latest drivers released yesterday? Some posts on reddit suggest there is a performance improvement (in synthetic benchmarks at least, e.g. 3DMark).
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Cybepunk 2077 seems to run at 5-10% higher FPS and more consistent frame times with MFG on. DLSS override mode provides more clarity, but I have applied that after the update only, so I don't know if that came with the new driver.
 
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Absolutely Clueless said:
Has anyone with a 50 series card tried the latest drivers released yesterday? Some posts on reddit suggest there is a performance improvement (in synthetic benchmarks at least, e.g. 3DMark).
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Slight increase in 3DMark benchmarks, strangely though ive had a significant decrease in performance on the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark.
 
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