CES 2025 AMD & Nvidia Keynote Live Chat [06/01/25]

Hostile_18 · 2025-01-07T11:43:52+0000

greatash said:
FE cards have been pretty easy to grab for MSRP in the UK in my experience.

It's just the launch window that's hard. And by launch window I mean the first 6 months. They usually come back periodically for a few hours during that time.

danlightbulb · 2025-01-07T11:43:57+0000

I think its time to fish out my Nvidia series progression chart.

3070 was there or thereabouts with the 2080Ti in raw performance.

4070 was 3080 level of performance.

If the 5080 is equal to the 4090 it should be doing about 30,000 timespy score at the $1000 dollar point.

Curtis vincent · 2025-01-07T11:46:56+0000

Really unsure about whether go 5090 FE and do my own block or go for the aorus 5090 WB as they look to have a model with a block applied this time. I've applied my own blocks to 4090FE and 3080tiFE but this one seems a lot more complicated. Especially with a 3PCB design and liquid metal.

JediFragger · 2025-01-07T11:53:22+0000

Case1987 said:
I like the look of the FE cards,so hopefully I can get a 5070t FE day one

Shame the Ti isn't getting an FE model then...

Curtis vincent · 2025-01-07T11:54:05+0000

greatash said:
FE cards have been pretty easy to grab for MSRP in the UK in my experience.

Yeah 4090 wasn't too bad to get hold of. Absolutely nothing like as much difficulty as getting a 3080/ti

JediFragger · 2025-01-07T11:54:24+0000

Curtis vincent said:
or go for the aorus 5090 WB as they look to have a model with a block applied this time.

Be careful with Gigabyte blocks, iirc the last one they did was very bad and had some corrosion. Def worth looking up.

Curtis vincent · 2025-01-07T11:57:16+0000

JediFragger said:
Be careful with Gigabyte blocks, iirc the last one they did was very bad and had some corrosion. Def worth looking up.

Yeah I have seen that tbf. Although they are saying it has a 4 year warranty.

danlightbulb · 2025-01-07T11:59:08+0000

I wonder if this is roughly what we get as raster performance.

Thoughts?

JediFragger · 2025-01-07T11:59:31+0000

Curtis vincent said:
Although they are saying this time it has a 4 year warranty.

That's 4yr warranty on a pile of **** though

I'd hang fire first and see what others experience, plus it's gonna be £500+ over FE pricing anyhow.

loonyk · 2025-01-07T12:00:40+0000

Steve from GN will show us how to strip 5090 fe

chiller15 · 2025-01-07T12:02:49+0000

I'd consider the 5080 FE, though I think I'd want to see what the fan noise is like. My 3080 FE has fans that sound like it's going into space when they're at 70%+.

Curtis vincent · 2025-01-07T12:03:09+0000

Fair enough. Yeah tbh though seems like QC issues are propping up in a few companies. I stopped using Asus monitors because their QC was awful, I stopped buying EK blocks because the RGB cables were so fragile and would just break off.

MissChief · 2025-01-07T12:09:35+0000

Is there a basic guide somewhere? Completely forgot about this. And why do I suspect nvidia will just change the $ for £ and not bother with the exchange rate?

Now to keep an eye out for the white cards, probably a 5080 then AM5 next year.

NZXT30 · 2025-01-07T12:10:15+0000

So Turing levels of failure? 20-30% extra performance with increased TDPs across the board.

Nvidia ain't the wizards some people think.

Curtis vincent · 2025-01-07T12:12:12+0000

MissChief said:
Is there a basic guide somewhere? Completely forgot about this. And why do I suspect nvidia will just change the $ for £ and not bother with the exchange rate?

Now to keep an eye out for the white cards,probabky a 5080 then AM5 next year.

its 1939 on the nvidia website for an FE 5090. So not quite $ for£ but not as good as it should be

jonneymendoza · 2025-01-07T12:13:03+0000

Can you already pre order the amd 9950x3d?

jonneymendoza · 2025-01-07T12:14:01+0000

Hostile_18 said:
It's just the launch window that's hard. And by launch window I mean the first 6 months. They usually come back periodically for a few hours during that time.

FE cards are also cheaper then third market so that £2k u see there is not really the price of a 5090 that most will pay for

Case1987 · 2025-01-07T12:15:47+0000

JediFragger said:
Shame the Ti isn't getting an FE model then...

Really? that's stupid

Hostile_18 · 2025-01-07T12:18:38+0000

jonneymendoza said:
FE cards are also cheaper then third market so that £2k u see there is not really the price of a 5090 that most will pay for

True but day 1 Nvidia mandates all partners offer some cards at msrp (always none OC ones, but that's a meaningless tag anyways).

Curtis vincent · 2025-01-07T12:20:54+0000

Do we know of any brands other than Aorus doing cars with waterblocks pre installed?