NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

[Murphy]

Sure, they can't do anything fancy with the voltages but I find it hard to believe the firmware can't drop the power limit to protect itself if it detects an imbalance. Or shut the card down.

I wouldn't be surprised if even the limited monitoring Asus is doing is pushing the limits of what Nvidia find acceptable.

It could be they only got away with it because they're Asus as by monitoring it, and highlighting an issue, they're alluding to it being a problem.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

I wouldn't be surprised if even the limited monitoring Asus is doing is pushing the limits of what Nvidia find acceptable.

It could be they only got away with it because they're Asus as by monitoring it, and highlighting an issue, they're alluding to it being a problem.

You might be right. Who the hell knows what nonsense Nvidia insist on. Can't have AIBs making a safer card than them. I personally think this tool will cause a lot of grief and support calls for Asus. There could be a lot of 50 series cards that are buzzing away with pins out of spec, not enough to melt and the user is blissfully unaware.

 

[DavieJG]

When you run so close to the limit, your dog farting in the next room is pushing your cable out of spec.

This is not a defence of Nvidia because their design is criminal... but a cable construction that when fully seated does not equally distribute the current on day one is also criminal.

 

[Grim5]

What an absolute disgrace. People need to just not buy these cards.

Most people have not, rtx5000 is not on steam hardware survey

 

[Bidley]

It would be nice if they included some older cards in reviews using the steam hardware survey as a guide. It's nice knowing how current gen cards compare but would also be good to see how older cards compare using more modern CPUs and drivers compared to their original reviews.

Would also let people see how much of upgrade it is.

TPU has a massive relative performance chart that allows you to set any card as the centre point. GN and HUB also include older cards as well as competing cards from a similar tier.

Steam Hardware survey is irrelevant because nobody needs a review to tell them how much better a given card is than a 4060 or 3050

 

[Coowhan]

Most people have not, rtx5000 is not on steam hardware survey

Exactly why all these issues are pretty shocking when there's so few cards out there. Ain't touching this gen with a 10 foot barge pole. Rather not worry about my PC becoming crispy in my house

 

[Absolutely Clueless]

It's only because I see comparisons like this using an rtx 4090

Ditto as a 4090 owner. No regrets going from a 7800X3D to 9800X3D. The latest AAA games run like cow dung these days. I can use DLSS performance to lessen the GPU load but I cannot turn down settings to reduce CPU load.

 

[cyclonus10]

What an absolute disgrace. People need to just not buy these cards

Nvidia see no reason to change how they do anything. What happens? Nothing, everything still sells out.
If you reward bad behaviour, they'll keep on doing it.

 

[Mysterae_]

5090 Astral running out of spec, taken from the Asus forum. It's so crazy to me that a device that has the ability to regulate its own power draw AND knows it's running out of spec in a way that could cause major hardware failure is just like "Hey, better be quick bucko, cable's about to melt. Do something about? Nah"

Hope you don't miss this OPTIONAL warning while gaming otherwise it's BBQ time.

If I really had to get a 5090 then it would have to be the Astral purely for the current monitoring functionality - and run GPU Tweak on a separate screen to monitor the current draw live while gaming/rendering. Just hope that the app's polling period is sufficient enough and that you just happen to glance at it at the right time.

It's just not worth the risk imo.