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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

Sargatanas2511 said:
According to TPU it's ~12% faster for a card that came out over 3 years later with much less VRAM. After that length of time that's hardly outstanding progress is it?
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It is not great, but it is at least reasonable (ish progress). i mean the 4070ti (non super) was marginally faster than/in the same ballpark as the 3090. That came out 2 years 3 months after the 3090 at almost half the MSRP (althought granted less vram).

The 5xxx series is definitely a lot worse in terms of price/perf progress compared with the 4xxx series.
 
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jimdriver said:
Can I ask what Driver and settings you're using to achieve these please?

Running on my 4090 I play on DLSS Performance mode with photo tracing on and everything maxed @ 4k. Once DLSS4 launched Driver 566.36 started giving me a steady 115fps & 45ms latency, reflex on.

The two new drivers they've released since the 50 series launch just tanked performance. I'd get about 95fps max and latency around 90-100ms. Even the new 572.42 driver did nothing to improve that.

It's starting to feel like Nvidia launched a new driver that literally didn't care in the slightest what it did to the previous top end card.
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As I said, in my example exact settings weren't really relevant for the purpose of that comparison. That said, I do not play in 4k either - it's 1440p UW. Newest possible drivers, all stock game-related settings aside enforced vSync (to not go above 175Hz which is my monitor's max refresh rate) and max GPU power limited to 80%. Also, I've run threw few beta drivers recently and eventually had to do clean instal of newest drivers to fix some leftovers from beta ones.
 
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Jono8 said:
It is not great, but it is at least reasonable (ish progress). i mean the 4070ti (non super) was marginally faster than/in the same ballpark as the 3090. That came out 2 years 3 months after the 3090 at almost half the MSRP (althought granted less vram).

The 5xxx series is definitely a lot worse in terms of price/perf progress compared with the 4xxx series.
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Like I say though, that's comparing price/performance to a historically bad card in price/perf. The 3080 was 14% cheaper and only 28% slower 3 years and 3 months before.
 
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Sargatanas2511 said:
Like I say though, that's comparing price/performance to a historically bad card in price/perf. The 3080 was 14% cheaper and only 28% slower 3 years and 3 months before.
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Yeh i see your point. The 4xxx wasnt great either historically, but i still think the 5xxx series is even worse.

Prices have gone a bit silly after the 3xxx series (and people even thought those RRPs were high at the time!) generally which is very disappointing.
 
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Jono8 said:
Yeh i see your point. The 4xxx wasnt great either historically, but i still think the 5xxx series is even worse.

Prices have gone a bit silly after the 3xxx series (and people even thought those RRPs were high at the time!) generally which is very disappointing.
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Yep, both AMD and Nvidia have basically put prices up while putting performance up so it gives a minimal actual boost in perf/£.
 
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mrk said:


Another one....

At this point given how many are melting considering the tiny number out, I experct to seee WAY more after next month once these magical stock supplies ramp up..


570W from pins this thin lmao. Good luck to all who bought or will buy a 5090.
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I don't think it'll make a difference. The majority of people don't keep up with current events, hardware or otherwise. Of those that do, a bunch think everyone else is an idiot and it won't happen to them. Only a select few will wait for a resolution.
 
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TBH I'm kind of surprised there's not been much (any?) talk about a product recall, either instigated by Nvidia themselves or forced on the by whatever government body deals with that sort of thing.

With the 4090 an argument could be made that power would be cut if X, Y, or Z happened. With the 5090 all you have to do is remove the plastic from the 12vhpwr connector on the card to see that all the individual wires connect to a single terminal.
 
America doesn't really care much about regulations and safety these days and the recall would have to come from them first.
 
DavieJG said:
I guess the reviewers are only running relatively short benchmarks in open air rigs.

His set up would deffo have burned a pin given enough time
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Bit of an assumption there, but it’s a possibility, although it didn’t happen…
 
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I'm glad the "just plug it in all the way" calls have faded. The fact that only the 12VHPWR side of the included adapters was melting was telling from the start.

It was as if no one noticed that the same people who couldn't "plug in cables correctly" managed to properly plug in the 8-pin side of those adapters every time, yet somehow forgot how to plug in cables when they got to the 12-pin side of the same adapter?
 
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