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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

I'm one of the idiots who bought a 5080 in that price range and have no regrets whatsoever.

In most benchmarks, the card I bought has performance much closer to a 4090 than a 4080 Super... and considering you can't even buy a 4090 second hand for less than I paid for my brand new 5080 I think I am pretty happy with that.
Agreed with this.

Plus, there are other benefits:

  • Good upgrade from 3-series
  • Power: more efficient, and no need to upgrade PSU to 1000W+
  • Overclocking: great potential
  • Thermals: lower temps
  • Tech: latest hardware/tech
  • Warranty: new 3 year warranty

Driver updates due soon too
 
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I'm one of the idiots who bought a 5080 in that price range and have no regrets whatsoever.

In most benchmarks, the card I bought has performance much closer to a 4090 than a 4080 Super... and considering you can't even buy a 4090 second hand for less than I paid for my brand new 5080 I think I am pretty happy with that.

Thought you got a 5090?

How much did you pay for the 5080?
 
Summery of most of the 5000 series reviews...

I think the best review was from Tech YES City because he recognised some issues and was able to work around driver issues, PCI-E 5 issues, Windows issues and CPU bottlenecks to show that there are in fact gains. The video below and his follow up are interesting watches. I think the narrative will change over the coming weeks.
 
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"We saw the 5080 pop up in a few places, but lets be real, nobody wants that"
Boy spitting facts... yet somehow retailers are selling 1800 5080s and they sold out.
I hope it was scalpers who thought they struck gold lmao.
Of that was scalpers, may be a new GPU but already pre-scalped at that price.
Was crying laughing when I noticed £1799 5080 which has less memory and is slower than a 4090. Another £100 odd pounds and get a 5090, but FOMO speaks louder.
 
16 weeks for some of these 5090 pre orders. Wtf is going on? Maybe NVIDIA don’t care if they don’t sell any.
 
So I was aiming for the 5090 yesterday and we all know how that went, so I received my Inno3d 5080 this morning instead.

Initial impressions are it's a very nice 2 slot card, runs really cool and quiet. I've done a bit of overclocking and got it to within 10% of my old 4090, which I sold before these price hikes.
 
Did any of the 5090 cards on ocuk's listing show as in stock at any point yesterday? They're claiming on Facebook they sold out but I seen a load of posts on here yesterday saying none of them were ever listed as being in stock.
 
Gamers Nexus mentioned something about the package count and potentially being the amount sent out, on the FE packaging it’s got x/361 so I wonder if that was the amount allocated to the Uk
 
theres sooo many 5090 FE on the used markets for 3500 and up, a cool 1500 profit, and thats no where near as the retailers selling them for a few hundred extra quid

Also somthing strange as all the pics have the nvida selling partner but when i spoke to them they said no FE edition, only Nvidia selling them, I bet staff had the 1st orders for the secret scalp deal
 
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16 weeks for some of these 5090 pre orders. Wtf is going on? Maybe NVIDIA don’t care if they don’t sell any.
Chinese New Year, where many factory workers take an extended holiday isn't helping apparently, and they've only just started manufacturing them. Manufacturing might not be at full capacity until the end of Feb. Maybe then the ETA will starting coming down.
16 weeks is ages. I'd not bother if it were me.
 
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