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Saying goodbye to the RTX 5090 :(

I bought a 5090 a few months ago for my main system, that system is in my son's room (he doesn't live with me full time) but he's been with me quite a lot lately so I've been gaming on a second system in another room with a 9070XT and I'm blown away by it.

I've probably gamed for about 20 hours on the 5090 and 100 on the 9070XT

I could swap out the 5090 and not feel like I was missing much but looking at the 5000 series release I will probably wait until the 6000 releases and sell it then and break even rather than taking a loss.
 
I'm guessing the OP doesn't play VR? 5090 is only 'just about ok' for my needs. Sad but true.

For flatscreen gaming though (even 4k) - nobody needs a 5090. Total overkill.
 
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wunkley said:
I'm guessing the OP doesn't play VR? 5090 is only 'just about ok' for my needs. Sad but true.

For flatscreen gaming though (even 4k) - nobody needs a 5090. Total overkill.
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This is 100% my experience. The 5090's about 30-40% faster than a 4090 in VR, and feels massively smoother. It's enough to make the difference from a game reprojecting to running at native framerate.
 
wunkley said:
I'm guessing the OP doesn't play VR? 5090 is only 'just about ok' for my needs. Sad but true.

For flatscreen gaming though (even 4k) - nobody needs a 5090. Total overkill.
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With the 5090, I legit played about 30 hours of cyberpunk, some indie games and recently Silksong. It wasn't the plan, but that's what happened :cry:

I can not play games equally as well with the 9070 XT
 
malachi said:
Same, I went from 3090 > 4090 > 5090. If 6090 came out tomorrow, I buy it.
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I’m the same. My only vice is gaming and I like to get high end components.

But I’m close to drawing a line at prices for graphics card.

Do you have a price point for the 6090 where you wouldn’t buy it?

I’ve told myself it’s £3000 but if the 6090 releases and has the same increase over the 5090 that the 4090 had over the 3090 and was priced at £3499 I know I’ll still end up buying :rolleyes:

wunkley said:
I'm guessing the OP doesn't play VR? 5090 is only 'just about ok' for my needs. Sad but true.

For flatscreen gaming though (even 4k) - nobody needs a 5090. Total overkill.
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You say that but it depends what your expectations are. I like to game at native 4k 120hz and a 5090 can’t do that on many games that I personally play.

Something like Spider-Man 2 can’t run at native 4k 120hz. Borderland 4 needs DLSS set to ultra performance to get close to 120fps.

Infact many modern AAA games won’t get you 120fps without DLSS.
 
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malachi said:
But I don't have a wife or kids so I don't need anyone to authorise my purchases :D
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I have both but I don't have to get authorisation luckily. However the adult in me couldn't make even the man-maths of the 4090 -> 5090 upgrade palatable. So I have downgraded by staying on the 4090 :D
 
ChocAndGray said:
I’m the same. My only vice is gaming and I like to get high end components.

But I’m close to drawing a line at prices for graphics card.

Do you have a price point for the 6090 where you wouldn’t buy it?

I’ve told myself it’s £3000 but if the 6090 releases and has the same increase over the 5090 that the 4090 had over the 3090 and was priced at £3499 I know I’ll still end up buying :rolleyes:



You say that but it depends what your expectations are. I like to game at native 4k 120hz and a 5090 can’t do that on many games that I personally play.

Something like Spider-Man 2 can’t run at native 4k 120hz. Borderland 4 needs DLSS set to ultra performance to get close to 120fps.

Infact many modern AAA games won’t get you 120fps without DLSS.
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The issue they have with tempting me next time is I already have MFG, so it needs to be hitting 90-120fps in games the 5090 can't hit 60 in, to even be a consideration, otherwise a lot of the games where the 5090 blazes past that number won't need it unless you need a smoother mfg experience than currently on offer. Alan Wake and Indiana Jones come to mind there, which I've played and mfg still feels a bit unnatural vs I can't tell on bf6, black ops 7, cyberpunk 2077.
 
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malachi said:
But I don't have a wife or kids so I don't need anyone to authorise my purchases :D
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wunkley said:
For flatscreen gaming though (even 4k) - nobody needs a 5090. Total overkill.
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What about curved screen gaming?
 
fastwunz said:
It’s got a 5070ti so plenty powerful enough - sounds like a rocket when gaming though which is a pretty significant drawback I’ll admit
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yeah I'm asking cos I was laptop > desktop for just over a decade, for the convenience of it.

But when I finally put the effort into a decent desk and chair again - I've never looked back :D
 
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