NVIDIA 5000 SERIES

[Gerard]

Be interesting to see how well the FE 5090 heatsink handles almost 600 watts being put through it. Apparently they're using liquid metal on the gpu itself, should be interesting to see how much of a difference this makes when a reviewer inevitably removes it and replaces it with some other TIM

 

[mrk]

Fair play, no judgement from me!

Speaking of PSUs, i’m hoping my trusty RM850x can power a 9800X3D and 5090. Should be ok if the 5090 is as efficient as the 4090 and I can run it at 80% or so. I will at least try it before upgrading.

To be a bit more concise with answering that than just a yes, my use case-is two-fold, I do more production work than gaming, though i do enjoy my gaming too. One of my Lightroom export batches for example can use over 20GB VRAM, and going from 3080 Ti to 4090 I saw my export times drop from around 30 mins to under 20 mins, so it's a massive uplift. I am certain if there was more VRAM then this figure would drop even more as well.

It took 6 minutes to export 429 RAW files post-processed in Lightroom to 1600px jpeg. This is a fairly typical batch and on the 3080 Ti would have take 4x or longer.

Note the system RAM use, might need 128GB going forwards

 

[Personality+]

Be interesting to see how well the FE 5090 heatsink handles almost 600 watts being put through it. Apparently they're using liquid metal on the gpu itself, should be interesting to see how much of a difference this makes when a reviewer inevitably removes it and replaces it with some other TIM

This is what has me wanting to get an FE and a higher tier AIB card. The uncertainty of the FE performance, could be a better workstation card than gaming card.

 

[Mysterae_]

Be interesting to see how well the FE 5090 heatsink handles almost 600 watts being put through it. Apparently they're using liquid metal on the gpu itself, should be interesting to see how much of a difference this makes when a reviewer inevitably removes it and replaces it with some other TIM

The use of liquid metal concerns me. If I were to fit a waterblock to it I wouldn't be using liquid metal (using PTM7950 instead) so this may hinder performance a bit.

More worryingly is if there was ever a warranty issue with the card - would they accept the warranty if it were to be returned to them with a TIM other than liquid metal? I would presume the GPU die is well protected from the LM so the end user may have to use LM with the FE anyway and those unfamiliar with it could make a right mess of it.

 

[xaldub]

I'm AM4 and don't wish to change due to how much it cost to build in Covid.
I currently have a 5900X with a 3090 Suprim X

What would be my logical next move? Would a 5080 be the best or a used 4090 from the folk moving up to 5090's? (I don't think I can stomach spending over £2k again)

(I game at 4k on a 42 LG OLED. Max is 120fps)

Tough one - I was in a similar position just over a year ago. Realistically you're looking at upgrading to the AM5 platform and picking up one of the newer Ryzen CPUs eg. 9800X3D or the older 7800X3D if prices were to drop back to circa £325 again. Of course, you'd need to buy a new motherboard and memory. As for a GPU, for good performance at 4K, the options are limited ... and none are cheap. If you want ray tracing, good AI upscaling etc then NVIDIA is the only game in town, and you're looking at a 4080, 4090 or the newly announced 5080 / 5090. Sadly, gaming at 4K with good performance isn't cheap ... yes, it probably will mean another investment of £2K ( minus what you manage to sell your old gear for ).