NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

[Grim5]

tldr



Nvidia: Listen Steve! You better start promoting fake frame generation in your reviews and telling your viewers its the best thing since sliced bread or else!


Steve: Get ****** Jensen!

 

[Quartz]

 

[BigBANGtheory]

Well its good to see people waking up and talking publicly about it, surprised its taken this long tbh.

 

[SonicSW20]

Entirely unsurprising, and it'll have absolutely no effect on their sales anyway.

 

[mrk]

Be interesting to see how many £2500 6090s are sold next year then and £1600 6080s lol. Off the back of all this and the ongoing driver issues people are facing, I'm less inclined to even consider changing from the 4090 than I was prior to the 50 series launch as it is. If game devs put focus into their engines like id have with idtech 8 then we should see awesome performance across the board meaning less desire for GPU upgrades across the board too.

 

[Absolutely Clueless]

I had considered an undervolt to help bring the temps down a bit and see if that would help at all, but it isn't something I have tried yet.

Ah, so maybe my higher undervolts were stable after all! Thanks for reporting back. Which driver are you on? Im on the Jan 30 driver (572.16).

 

[will13]

Be interesting to see how many £2500 6090s are sold next year then and £1600 6080s lol. Off the back of all this and the ongoing driver issues people are facing, I'm less inclined to even consider changing from the 4090 than I was prior to the 50 series launch as it is. If game devs put focus into their engines like id have with idtech 8 then we should see awesome performance across the board meaning less desire for GPU upgrades across the board too.

They'll still sell out and be scalped, people will still constantly complain about Nvidia and it's pricing but will buy them regardless, AMD may do better with UDNA and FSR4.*/5 but long shot

 

[SDK^]

Interesting watching this play out

 

[Soulja]

Ah, so maybe my higher undervolts were stable after all! Thanks for reporting back. Which driver are you on? Im on the Jan 30 driver (572.16).

I have mainly been using the Jan 30 driver but I have upgraded to the most recent driver to see if it makes a difference

 

[Rogueywon]

On the topic of MFG, which Nvidia is apparently so desperate to push that it's started threatening reviewers over it... I've been on the fence until now. But the new Mechwarrior 5: Clans DLC has a couple of areas where, with maxed settings at 4k, the base framerate takes quite a hit even on a 5090 (likely due to poor optimisation, which can hopefully be fixed with patches). And when that happens, with MFG enabled... oh my word things get ugly quite quickly. If you want to see the limits of MFG exposed even on the top-end card, then that's a good game to go to.

 

[RavenXXX2]

see the 5060 is in stock and not one review, nvidia sucks. Nearly £300 for that trash.

This is outright lies being posted in promotional RTX featured games. Lawsuit waiting to happen.

 

[glenimp617]

Had my first go at undervolting tonight. Jesus, what a difference!

To start with:

0.900v
2800 core
1800 memory

-90w power
-5 degrees cooler
+10% performance (at least from what I could tell watching back some game footage of me racing)

Not sure if removing 2 sticks of RAM helped with another issue I was having, but also noticed my CPU load was well down (nearly 20%)

 

[Vito]

Had my first go at undervolting tonight. Jesus, what a difference!

To start with:

0.900v
2800 core
1800 memory

-90w power
-5 degrees cooler
+10% performance (at least from what I could tell watching back some game footage of me racing)

Not sure if removing 2 sticks of RAM helped with another issue I was having, but also noticed my CPU load was well down (nearly 20%)

What card please?

 

[glenimp617]

What card please?

Zotac Solid (the one on special offer for £1999)

 

[Vito]

Zotac Solid (the one on special offer for £1999)

Nice one! Bargin then, enjoy. Don't be disheartened if it's not stable in all games, sometimes you need to change it up. And new drivers can cause instability, trial and error.

 

[glenimp617]

Nice one! Bargin then, enjoy. Don't be disheartened if it's not stable in all games, sometimes you need to change it up. And new drivers can cause instability, trial and error.

I only play one game lol

 

[Absolutely Clueless]

Nice one! Bargin then, enjoy. Don't be disheartened if it's not stable in all games, sometimes you need to change it up. And new drivers can cause instability, trial and error.

My general UV approach is just to be conservative. If that means i'm at 420w instead of 400w and 120fps instead of 114fps, then so be it. I think it is something I will learn over time from just playing games as well - what works in which games, etc.

 

[Gerard]

Be interesting if as suggested this is the way its going to be from now on, no cards in advance to reviewers so no day 1 reviews. Will people run out and panic buy quite so much if that's the case? Possibly, bit of a hassle getting refunds though if its turns out to be a turd.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

It really goes to show, that just like game review sites, a lot of tech review sites are only fit for the bin.

 

[dmfg]

It really goes to show, that just like game review sites, a lot of tech review sites are only fit for the bin.

It's a classic Prisoner's dilemma that Nvidia has set up for reviewers. "Sign up for the early preview, there's no downside since there's no other way to review the card and you wouldn't want to be one of those channels that doesn't sign up and misses out would you?"

Every reviewer knows that the end result is a dysfunctional and untrusted review environment where everyone loses, but it only works if enough reviewers take a stand. Otherwise the ones that cave to Nvidia get the short term benefit and the ones that take a stand get shafted