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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

KNiVES said:
There are rumors that a lot of shops in Europe are only getting like 20 5080s each and some not even seeing any 5090s at all.
I do remember hearing last year that Nvidia had a massive faulty batch of Blackwells and had to redo the design really late into the whole process.


Jensen straight up says there was a design flaw and was only resolved late last year, and it affected production runs. I'm not surprised stock will be super low.
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Rumour has it all the stock has gone to the US to beat Trump's tariff date with very little stock allocated to europe
 
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Blackjack Davy said:
Rumour has it all the stock has gone to the US to beat Trump's tariff date with very little stock allocated to europe
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Makes me wonder how that will affect AMD release and if they do well in Europe, they might get a very nice chunk of the market right under NVidia's nose. But, it's AMD so... I am expecting to be disappointed. :P
 
chrisgough said:
It’s actually a good card, maybe not so much at 4K but I’m half tempted to just skip the 50 series if I can’t get one at launch and rock the 4070 until 60 series if it’s October 2026. Hoping the real benchmarks give some more confidence, but feels like 50 series is just a stop gap until a newer architecture is released.
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I was just being sarcastic mate. No offense lol.
 
Personality+ said:
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As expected. And considering what actual street prices will be, it's a dire price/performance improvement. I see moving to a 5090 if money is literally no object, you have no other hobby to sink the extra ~£500 into, and you ignore the consumer-deleterious price increase (still, there's going to be a lot of frotting of hands trying to rationalize this move for people), but virtually no reason to "upgrade" from 4-series for anything under ...90.

The midrange is going to be a soft target for AMD. They best better deliver on pricing there with RDNA 4.
 
clone said:
I'm now in no rush to get a 5090.
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Yeah, I was still on the fence for 5090 until yesterday when a few more leaks confirmed the mediocrity of the uptick and lack of price/performance improvement. nV can talk about "features" until the cows come home, but rasterization is (and will continue to be) the most important metric for gaming. The proposition of a ~35% increase for £500+/25%+ more over 4090 in 2+ years is comical. It's like a restaurant putting a bigger bowl of fruit in front of us for a near-commeasurate cost increase and saying "this is better".

I will say, in 30+ years I've been in this game, it's a first: the needle is moving with this launch in a very negligable fashion.
 
KNiVES said:
There are rumors that a lot of shops in Europe are only getting like 20 5080s each and some not even seeing any 5090s at all.
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Given how massive the 5090 spec is I would expect it to end up being a very rare card to purchase. It seems obvious to me that they want to funnel gamers into 5080 first and foremost.
 
I'm getting cold feet about the 5090, was expecting to go all in but the smaller than I anticipated uplift and the rumoured astronomical price increase for such incremental gains is putting me off. I may well fold when reviews are out and after the initial rush dies down but I'm on the fence for now.
 
For those waiting for the 60 series, what if it comes out on a new node and it’s 50% faster than the 5090 and the fe model is £2299 are you gonna buy?
 
parisv said:
For those waiting for the 60 series, what if it comes out on a new node and it’s 50% faster than the 5090 and the fe model is £2299 are you gonna buy?
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I’m hoping AMD can do something by then at the high end now that Nvidia is moving towards selling imitation performance that a large portion of the gaming community doesn’t want.
 
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