Is a 5090 really overkill for 1440?

[Clarence Boddicker]

I know its meant to be a 4k card, but would a 5090 still be overkill for 1440, if playing with graphics maxed, rt on and no upscaling or frame gen?

The 5080 doesn’t seem a good option for this scenario, especially as it only has 16gb vram.

 

[Clarence Boddicker]

My monitors 165Hz, not OLED though. Dont get me wrong, dont really want to drop over 2k on a gpu but I want to upgrade to Nvidia and the 5080 just doesnt seem good enough. I suppose thats exactly what they want though, people buying the 5090 because the 5080 isnt quite enough.

 

[Clarence Boddicker]

The problem with getting the 5080 and an oled 4k is that the vram isnt enough for certain games already at 4k, and like I said I like to max out graphics settings without using upscaling and frame gen. It will **** me off as well if I buy a 5080 now and they release a super in the not too far distant future with the right amount of vram.

I think Im leaning towards getting a 5090 at the moment and then maybe a monitor upgrade at some point.

 

[Clarence Boddicker]

Yes, totally overkill - you will be CPU limited in many scenarios.

So would I be more cpu limited at 1440p than at 4k?