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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

Sedgey123 said:
We're not on about price but if you want to include that then sure.
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And there has been plenty of chances over the course of 2 years to get it at sub 2k
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oh i agree, people paying £1700 for a 5080 need their head read, I got mine basically for msrp

I had the opportunity to buy a 4090 for £1550 last week but decided not to, and in the games I play at 1440p the 5080 is touching distance of the 4090 so I basically saved myself £500
 
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andybird123 said:
oh i agree, people paying £1700 for a 5080 need their head read, I got mine basically for msrp
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Also i dont want to bash on anyone that has got a 5080, it was upgrade time for that person and you get what is laid out in front of you and go for the best you can afford/justify. I just dont see the pointless bashing on a 4090 that is clearly still 2nd but for some reason some can't get there head around that.

Jealousy is all i can guess.
 
Sedgey123 said:
Also i dont want to bash on anyone that has got a 5080, it was upgrade time for that person and you get what is laid out in front of you and go for the best you can afford/justify. I just dont see the pointless bashing on a 4090 that is clearly still 2nd but for some reason some can't get there head around that.

Jealousy is all i can guess.
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I don't really see anyone bashing the 4090, but being on a 13900k, in situations where the memory on the 4090 might actually make a difference I would probably be bottlenecking it anyway, so saving over £500 on what I could have gotten a 4090 for even a couple of weeks ago, I'm quite happy with the price/performance of the 5080 at the price I've paid and the resolution and games I play at
same as I had been thinking of trying for a 5090, but then it would have been even worse and I'd have probably just sold it to get a 5080 anyway

equally if I already had a 40 series card, I wouldn't be at all interested in the 50 series
 
Bidley said:
Agreed.

The smugness of 4090 owners is getting a bit silly now. Not one of them thought they were buying a GPU that would outdo the next gen's 80-class when they bought their 4090s, just the same as people (like myself) who didn't upgrade at the time. My 3080 was fine until second half of last year when I felt it was time to upgrade. If you had asked on here what GPU to buy, everyone would've said (and did say) "wait for 50 series".
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Maybe not but we had indications of it. I said this almost a year ago:

Vertigo said:
No one knows what the 5090 will bring or when but bear in mind that a large part of the bump from the 3090 to the 4090 was due to a huge reduction in process size from 8nm to 5nm which facilitated a 2.7x increase in transistors and a 50% increase in boost clocks on a slightly smaller die.

That won't be repeated with the 5090.
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andybird123 said:
yeah, and even 3nm is supposedly not a massive improvement over 4nm either, we really are reaching the limits of what is possible with process improvements
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Yep.... small process node improvement, no power headroom, and i can't imagine much clock headroom etiher without massive architectural changes. I would be surpsed if the 6090 has a >40% improvement tbh.
 
SeeNoWeevil said:
I can't get my head around the prices people pay for used GPUs. £1000+ for a used piece of computer hardware with no warranty is utter madness.
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Yeah, I was on ebay looking to see if there were any video cards for sale as assumed I could pick up a cheap 4060 / 4070. However 2 year old 4000 series cards are still selling for basically the same price I can buy them for new on OCUK?

I don't understand it?
 
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Absolutely Clueless said:
Yep.... small process node improvement, no power headroom, and i can't imagine much clock headroom etiher without massive architectural changes. I would be surpsed if the 6090 has a >40% improvement tbh.
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Mirrors my thoughts. I've joined the pre-order queue for a 5090 on that basis. Seems to be around double the performance of my 3090ti so should be noticeable and will hopefully last
 
Absolutely Clueless said:
That will be my thinking for the 6090 coming from a 4090. Around 80-90% faster. That will do me.
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Makes perfect sense. I don't see 60 percent gains coming from 1 generation any more. Apart from physics increasingly being a problem you've got AI to help plus little competition. I reckon 30ish percent will be what they target now. Just enough to catch the FOMO!
 
Sedgey123 said:
We're not on about price but if you want to include that then sure.
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And there has been plenty of chances over the course of 2 years to get it at sub 2k
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Wow, just wow.

I could buy that for almost £200 more than I paid for my 4090, to get a slower card with 8Gb less VRam.

The gaming world has gone officially mad.
 
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Stumble Bum said:
Pure greed from OCUK. Especially when you see the prices everyone else is charging. Why would anyone buy from them in the future? A very short sighted pricing strategy if you ask me.
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To be honest if the stock issues are as widespread as reported i imagine many of those pre orders on other sites will end up being cancelled by the retailers as when the next wave of cards come in theyll either be selling at a loss or no profit at all.

At least with ocuk you know if you got a pre order you will be getting it.
 
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