NVIDIA 5000 SERIES

Absolutely Clueless · 2025-01-14T18:42:54+0000

Grim5 said:
Nvidia can check with AMD, they've got the experience as they've launched a couple generations in the past that had raster performance go backwards

What, really? Which ones?

srekal34 · 2025-01-14T19:28:56+0000

Absolutely Clueless said:
What, really? Which ones?

I presume he means R2900XT vs 3870XT.

rumple9 · 2025-01-14T19:41:38+0000

will13 said:
I believe now it's Ventus, Gaming X but then it's tough between Suprim and Vanguard which will be top, I lean towards vanguard but yeah..

I remember a few years ago KFA2 made a card (think it might have been a 3090) with a fan on the backplate, like the vanguard, and testing showed it didn't make an ounce of difference to cooling, so probably paying an extra £300 for a useless £10 fan :cry:

Edit my mistake, it's the MSI 32G that has the backplate fans not the Vanguard

Octoplex7 · 2025-01-14T19:52:46+0000

Absolutely Clueless said:
25.5% VAT in Finland, too, i believe.

Mama mia, I thought we had it bad in the UK with VAT at 20%!

Raiden85 · 2025-01-14T19:55:47+0000

parisv said:
9m40s maybe gpu makers will reduce gpu die used for raster performance in exchange for more ray tracing

RT hardware has been available for about 7yrs since the 20 series came out, if anyone is still running 7+ year old PC hardware then it's way overdue for an upgrade by now. PC's have had it for 7 years, consoles though much slower have had the ability to run it for a few years and even top end phones can now do hardware accelerated RT, even the Steam Deck can even if it's very slow at it. There is no reason why anyone should be complaining that their hardware is incapable of even running some form of RT in 2025.

Grim5 · 2025-01-14T19:57:02+0000

Octoplex7 said:
Mama mia, I thought we had it bad in the UK with VAT at 20%!

Come to Australia where it's 10%

Or well an American state without out, iirc Delaware is a state with 0% VAT

Gerard · 2025-01-14T20:00:20+0000

srekal34 said:
I presume he means R2900XT vs 3870XT.

And if he is, he's also talking almost 2 decades ago. And even then the 2 cards traded blows, the 3870 was marginally faster overall and drew less power.

will13 · 2025-01-14T20:02:04+0000

rumple9 said:
I remember a few years ago KFA2 made a card (think it might have been a 3090) with a fan on the backplate, like the vanguard, and testing showed it didn't make an ounce of difference to cooling, so probably paying an extra £300 for a useless £10 fan

Edit my mistake, it's the MSI 32G that has the backplate fans not the Vanguard

To be fair I believe it was the Asus Astranomical pricing edition where it was mentioned they changed the fin density to I assume have more effect from the backplate fan

Also I believe inno have made a few with an attachable 4th fan

Grim5 · 2025-01-14T20:14:47+0000

Gerard said:
And if he is, he's also talking almost 2 decades ago. And even then the 2 cards traded blows, the 3870 was marginally faster overall and drew less power.

5700xt vs Radeon 7 https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-radeon-rx-5700-xt/28.html

And now looks like 9070xt will possibly be slower than 7900xtx, so that could be another generation

Bidley · 2025-01-14T20:18:59+0000

Grim5 said:
5700xt vs Radeon 7 https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-radeon-rx-5700-xt/28.html

And now looks like 9070xt will possibly be slower than 7900xtx, so that could be another generation

Both examples are different tiers/price-points, so not comparable in any way.

parisv · 2025-01-14T20:19:18+0000

will13 said:
To be fair I believe it was the Asus Astranomical pricing edition where it was mentioned they changed the fin density to I assume have more effect from the backplate fan

Also I believe inno have made a few with an attachable 4th fan

Gerard · 2025-01-14T20:25:52+0000

Grim5 said:
5700xt vs Radeon 7 https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-radeon-rx-5700-xt/28.html

And now looks like 9070xt will possibly be slower than 7900xtx, so that could be another generation

You're actually comparing a midrange card to a flagship and coming up with a ridiculous conclusion, in both cases.

So that also applies to nvidia when the 5080 isn't as fast as the 4090? This is derptitude at its finest.

novalis · 2025-01-14T21:25:43+0000

I'm happy that I got the 4080 Super 6 months ago, there's no way I was going to be able to get a 5000-series card especially at a decent price, but good luck to all who are in the market!

Absolutely Clueless · 2025-01-14T21:38:46+0000

novalis said:
I'm happy that I got the 4080 Super 6 months ago, there's no way I was going to be able to get a 5000-series card especially at a decent price, but good luck to all who are in the market!

If you're happy with what you have then that's all that matters

scubes · 2025-01-14T21:43:17+0000

Coolasmoo · 2025-01-14T21:56:06+0000

parisv said:

That looks awful

mrk · 2025-01-14T22:05:38+0000

There needs to be a vomit reaction emoji.

Absolutely Clueless · 2025-01-14T22:11:09+0000

Coolasmoo said:
That looks awful

It does, but i'm genuinely curious how much it helps temps and affects noise levels. Hopefully GN review it.

Grim5 · 2025-01-14T22:17:05+0000

parisv said:

Ahaha that's a 5 slot GPU

I bet what happened here is Gigabyte designed the card to work and look like last gen with the open vents at the back. Then when they saw Asus, MSI and others had built a 4th fan into their cards, they decided they had to as well but didn't have enough time To re-design and just stuck a 120mm case fan on the back with some screws lol

StriderX · 2025-01-14T22:23:55+0000

Wonder if someone will make a comically large heatsink at some point for fanless config?

It could keep it's own weight up be hitting the PC floor.