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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion
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Most of the toxicity is aimed at each othert not Nvidia, people more interested in critizing others for there choices rather then talking about the technical aspects of the cards in the technical thread. I mean who really cares what someone else buys or how much it cost them, its their business no one elses
Then the point went over your head
No i understand your point, just emphasiing my own
Most of the criticism is about the cards themselves, pricing and scalping. the thread is labelled technical-general-discussion. the cards come under technical while pricing and stock/availability/scalping comes under general. The people who bought the cards shouldn't take it personally and there are usually the owners threads for a more positive spin.
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Totally agree. They are better than the 4 series and a decent upgrade from the 3 series. Lack of RAM on the 5080 is shoddy though. I wouldn't upgrade if you had a 4 series
Then again, the 5090 owner's thread has just whole 2 cards shown so far. Seems to have been all of the UK stock.
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Better than the 4 series is pretty subjective. Big power draw increase for very little gain. Poorest generational upgrade in recent times. Decent upgrade from 3 series doesn’t really hold up as making it a good release.
I understand what your saying there just seems to of been a lot of negativity towards forum members from both sides of the discussion, i might of had one to many tonight tho and reading to much into it in fairness plus me Kebab never showed up which does not impress me much, i was looking forward to me pizza box full of mixed kebab
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Exactly, what would people say if I was seriously thinking of downgrading from the 4090 to the 5080?
I've got the 5090 on pre-order (down to 92 in the queue), but I'm seeing the 4090FE selling for approx £1700 on the bay. After postage I'd have had the 4090 for one year for free!
If I wait any longer the price could drop. It could be months until the 5090 comes in, the 5080 will be weeks at most.
Or I could just keep the 5090 pre-order and yolo the 5080 as well, then sell when the 5090 comes in...
I think Jensens to blame for a lot of the negativity as he over hyped the cards especially the 5080 which in the charts showed 30%+ raster gains and $200 dollars less than the 4080 on the price but the gains turned into +15% and the prices were fake and ended up even higher than the 4080 launch prices in some cases.
It's a strange time indeed with used prices.
As we have seen this is the first time the 90 isnt outclassed by the next generations 80, the VRAM on the new 5080 being somewhat lacking and the lack of stock anywhere... no wonder the market is all over the place and doesn't know what to do.
It's going to be interesting where everything lies in the next 12 months... i see the 4090 retaining its value until potentially a 5080Ti/Super is released or just decreasing slowly the closer we get to the 6000 series.
As we have seen this is the first time the 90 isnt outclassed by the next generations 80, the VRAM on the new 5080 being somewhat lacking and the lack of stock anywhere... no wonder the market is all over the place and doesn't know what to do.
It's going to be interesting where everything lies in the next 12 months... i see the 4090 retaining its value until potentially a 5080Ti/Super is released or just decreasing slowly the closer we get to the 6000 series.
Even Nvidia's announcement graphs clearly showed the 5080 as a 10-15% improvement over the 4080 in the only like-for-like comparisons on the chart. People just didn't want to believe it or ignored it to look at the nonsense FG "comparison" bars.
I agree, but it is so hard to trust Nvidia's graphs and claims now a days, we have to take what they say with a pinch of salt which sucks but thats the way it is.
It's your money so you can do whatever you like with it, but I think you'd be mad to downgrade from a 4090 FE to a 5080. Just keep the 5090 pre-order ... if it's taking forever and you find you don't really need it / FOMO wears off then just cancel.Exactly, what would people say if I was seriously thinking of downgrading from the 4090 to the 5080?
I've got the 5090 on pre-order (down to 92 in the queue), but I'm seeing the 4090FE selling for approx £1700 on the bay. After postage I'd have had the 4090 for one year for free!
If I wait any longer the price could drop. It could be months until the 5090 comes in, the 5080 will be weeks at most.
Or I could just keep the 5090 pre-order and yolo the 5080 as well, then sell when the 5090 comes in...
pity because zotacs have been the quietest cards I've owned, you must have got a bad one. Didn't it have fan stop (where the fans goto 0rpm below a certain frequency)?
Edit just looked on the zotac website and all the 4090's have fan stop and also a dual (quiet) bios
Maybe you disapplied it with overclocking or something
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The original charts clearly show gains over 30% and were later swapped out to the realistic ones in a bait and switch.
