NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - OFFICIAL PRE-ORDER THREAD!

[GoRedwings19]

Still a little early to be getting too hyped about the Blackwell cards in my opinion, I am interested in the 5090 and have the cash saved to buy one but won't be buying anything till I've seen some proper benchmarks and comparisons to my current 4090 without DLSS and Frame Gen.
I think Frame Gen and DLSS are great when a card is a few years old and struggling with newer titles, but I refuse to spend £2.5k+ on a new GPU only to have the majority of the gains being down to software rather than processing power.
If the raw improvements are the rumoured less than 20% faster across the board then we should all send Nvidia a message by not buying them.
Not wanting to be a party pooper of course but the 50 series is looking rather a lot like the 20 series was back in 2018 which was the last time I also skipped a gen entirely, fingers crossed the reviews are glowing and if so I'll be here at 2pm on the 30th of course trying to get lucky

But graphics cards sales only contribute 10% of global revenue to Nvidia coffers. You can and everyone can vote with their wallets but Nvidia still won’t give a damn.

When a company has been allowed to the grow so big to the point whether you buy or don’t buy they are indifferent then the graphics card manufacturer landscape needs to change. Will it be intel or amd to fight the good fight on our behalf?

Neither, intel have already proven they don’t give a flying F from their cpu division. They are only are trying to appease us in the budget section of graphics cards sector as that the only place that has any sort of momentum going forward for the time being at least as the company as a whole is in a bad place.

AMD can’t seem to capitalise on nvidia boo boos and while their cpu is hugely popular and successful they can’t seem to turn it around with their graphics card section.

 

[GoRedwings19]

Most gfx cards are made in Taiwan, but Zotac and Sapphire and some other Radeon brands are made in China. That said of even those cards that are made in Taiwan, the parts (capacitors etc etc) are imported from China, so manufacturers are diverting cards to the US before tariffs are imposed. If tariffs do get added, then we can probably expect a lot more supply to Europe as US demand falls

Where do you think the minerals to make CPU’s come from?

 

[harmattan]

Where do you think the minerals to make CPU’s come from?

I'm not an expert in international trade law, but I don't believe a product's base materials would make it subject the US tariffs -- it's where the product (and its constituant components are manufactured.

However, while supply may marginally improve for other regions if US tariffs on China go into effect (when it sounds now, but who knows woth Orange Cataline), prices will increase in at least some way in all regions including UK.

 

[Grim5]

Usually tariffs apply to the country that either:

* assembled the product or

* where the majority of its components come from or

* the country that added the most value to the finished product (most of the time this happens to also be the country that assembled it, unless the product is assembled in multiple countries, then you decide which step added the most value)


It's usually one of these three that are used to determine who pays tariffs