NVIDIA 5000 SERIES

[Absolutely Clueless]

I hope all the naysayers keep their word and dont buy the 5090 so I dont have to fight them to get mine. Still undecided between FE and Astral though

You won't be able to buy either for a while, so plenty of time to think about it

 

[parisv]

I hope all the naysayers keep their word and dont buy the 5090 so I dont have to fight them to get mine. Still undecided between FE and Astral though

looking forward to a 50 series owners thread.... in 2026

 

[Subliminal Aura]

I wonder how many will comment on here about the 20-30% uplift, it's been widely known about for a while now.

There's a 1000% uplift for my workloads so I'm drooling at the thought (yes I don't play silly games)

 

[TNA]

Raster is irrelevant in 2025.

Excellent. I shall quote this one

 

[zedd91]

Nah I'm pretty sure I'll manage to get one at launch. Maybe not a FE

 

[Smeghead]

This is what is ******* me off
Is it 'really' that expensive to add more RAM ?

For some of my workloads I don't need a fast GPU but I DO NEED more VRAM

I'm pretty sure they're intentionally gatekeeping VRAM specifically because with training AI models, the more VRAM you have the better, above all other specs like CUDA cores etc., so if they put more VRAM on the mid tier cards, that's less incentive to splash out on the flagship. So scummy, but without a competitor, they'll do what they want and there's literally no alternative to the consumer who is interested in that stuff.

 

[Subliminal Aura]

I'm pretty sure they're intentionally gatekeeping VRAM specifically because with training AI models, the more VRAM you have the better, above all other specs like CUDA cores etc., so if they put more VRAM on the mid tier cards, that's less incentive to splash out on the flagship. So scummy, but without a competitor, they'll do what they want and there's literally no alternative to the consumer who is interested in that stuff.

EXACTLY !!! Ai is my use case ..... argh NVIDIA you and your $$$$$$$$$$s

 

[mrk]

Excellent. I shall quote this one

Quote away! Haven't been concerned about raster the whole of 2024, so that's not gonna change a year later lol

 

[Dicehunter]

The main takeaway before the slew of reviews drop.

Wow... totally worth £2000... this is pretty bad generationally speaking, an average of 28% faster and 25% more expensive than the 4090 is a terrible deal.

 

[[timko]]

Still undecided between FE and Astral though

The price difference between those two specifically is pretty big which is why I would personally stick to an FE.

 

[Hostile_18]

If the 4090 is no longer available though it makes things a lot more complicated.

 

[opethdisciple]

I'm pretty sure they're intentionally gatekeeping VRAM specifically because with training AI models, the more VRAM you have the better, above all other specs like CUDA cores etc., so if they put more VRAM on the mid tier cards, that's less incentive to splash out on the flagship. So scummy, but without a competitor, they'll do what they want and there's literally no alternative to the consumer who is interested in that stuff.

Planned obselecance. It's a way to get people upgrading.

 

[dannywaugh1]

 

[Richdog]

Sooooo... which silly billies sold their 4090 already expecting to pick up a 5090 at launch?

 

[Monkeyboysteve]

Wow... totally worth £2000... this is pretty bad generationally speaking, an average of 28% faster and 25% more expensive than the 4090 is a terrible deal.

it's not though considering the 4090 hasn't been msrp for over a year. cheapest 4090 I saw was well over 2000 in the past 12 months.

 

[ne0]

I genuinely don;t understand anyone that upgrades every gen... Especially those that then moan that it's not a big increase in performance. well no ****.

Because they can't face not having the top tier GPU anymore. Happens every time. 400 pages of mental gymnastics, tears, and emotional outbursts before the current top tier owner either upgrades anyway because they're rich/dumb or simply accepts reality and goes off to sulk until the next generation when it all starts again.

 

[cyclonus10]

looking forward to a 50 series owners thread.... in 2026

An active one ;D

 

[Dicehunter]

it's not though considering the 4090 hasn't been msrp for over a year. cheapest 4090 I saw was well over 2000 in the past 12 months.

Yeah it's still a bad deal, Stores getting greedy and price hiking doesn't justify this.

No one in their right mind should be defending these prices.

 

[Tinek]

Sure. I agree raster won't be going anywhere anytime soon. But that is not what 4090 owners in particular were saying on this forum. They wanted more RT performance.

Now if the 5090 provides at least 40% uplift on RT and still gets slated by these user we will know that we have reached a price point where even these users can't justify the cost.

Won't be the case of, the hell with it just buy it, smash it or what have you.

I get the feeling the 5090 won't sell half as many units as the 4090 did by the time the 6090 is out.

Shame the 5080 does not have better specs. Had it been a little more beefy to at least match the 4090 in every way (except for say vram) it would have done better. But if it ends up weaker in every department except for having MFG it won't be as popular as it would have been.

Not long left now T- 1:54

If 5080 was an actual replacement for 4090, I'd upgrade to it likely, just to be able to play with new features (even if I'd never used them in games after that). However, it's not. Waiting for 6k series now.

 

[Tinek]

You can try the new DLSS 4.0 transformer model right now - Cyberpunk just got patched with it. Works for 4000 and 5000 series.

Patch 2.21

www.cyberpunk.net

Added support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation for GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards, which boosts FPS by using AI to generate up to three times per traditionally rendered frame – enabled with GeForce RTX 50 Series on January 30th. DLSS 4 also introduces faster single Frame Generation with reduced memory usage for RTX 50 and 40 Series. Additionally, you can now choose between the CNN model or the new Transformer model for DLSS Ray Reconstruction, DLSS Super Resolution, and DLAA on all GeForce RTX graphics cards today. The new Transformer model enhances stability, lighting, and detail in motion.

New DLSS seems to cost about 3-5% of performance (at least on 4080), but that sounds like a small price to pay for it looking much closer to native finally (animated textures etc.), unlike the DLSS3 abomination in places (not everywhere, just in some places).