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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

Absolutely Clueless said:
Apologies all for even suggesting I will look into iCue. I only own one Corsair product, a 2020 RM850x, so am largely in the dark on it.
Point taken! :D
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No apologies needed. I mean on Paper a software app that monitors and control every one of your same brand product would be ideal. But one you start adding stuff to icue or whatever app things get complicated and fast. Now I run my PC sans software monitor/control apps. Sure it doesn't look as pretty as my older corsair builds more like a peasant/tramp setup but I don't have to deal with the negatives that comes with it.
 
iCUE is indeed awful. I used to use their scimitar mmo mouse, the original version didn't have any onboard memory so I had to have it running in the background to remember button binds. They'd occasionally release a broken version of it, and it'd just crash in the middle of me playing a game. I think I was playing Destiny 2 at the time, and I'd just randomly be unable to press my ult or something because it decided to crash out without telling me. Following all the issues I swore I'd never buy another Corsair product that mandated the use of that bloody thing. They released a scimitar mouse with onboard storage a bit after so I think I swapped to that since I liked the mouse, just hated the software, with onboard storage it meant I could just install icue briefly to set it up, then uninstall it and never look at it again.
 
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I am on a 13900k, and finally managed to get an Astral OC - at 4K gaming would a 9950x3D make a significant difference? I don't play competitive games or anything like that, mainly CP2077 and Black Myth Wukong, and Elden Ring. I have seen review benchmarks show not much difference at 4K, but some youtube videos of this comparison are showing a significant difference.
 
waspy88 said:
I am on a 13900k, and finally managed to get an Astral OC - at 4K gaming would a 9950x3D make a significant difference? I don't play competitive games or anything like that, mainly CP2077 and Black Myth Wukong, and Elden Ring. I have seen review benchmarks show not much difference at 4K, but some youtube videos of this comparison are showing a significant difference.
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If you're playing CP2077, Wukong etc at 4k with maxed settings, I don't think you'll get much improvement from a CPU swap. The 13900K is by no means obsolete yet. If you're more interested in ultra high refresh gaming at lower resolutions and settings, CPU will matter more.
 
Absolutely Clueless said:
Apologies all for even suggesting I will look into iCue. I only own one Corsair product, a 2020 RM850x, so am largely in the dark on it.
Point taken! :D
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I've definitely had my issues with iCUE, but it's not all bad.

On the negative side, their iCUE 4.x software ran the RGB on a 3090 FE fine, but their newer 5.x versions glitched out giving flashing lighting (fixed at some point over the last 12m). I've also had an iCUE install break and think it was uninstalled, which was a PITA to actually remove and then reinstall.

On the positive side, iCUE 5.x is relatively stable, has a moderate footprint, doesn't open 15 different instances of itself (unlike Razer, MSI and ASUS' software) and has a reasonably good UI. I use it to sync my GPU and memory lighting, give PSU readings (as well as software can) and provide an EQ for my headphones along with their mic's Nvidia broadcast functionality (which it can do without having broadcast installed). iCUE is not a terrible piece of kit as of March-2025 IMO. Although you always have to worry that they'll break it.
 
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iCUE works ok for me most of the time. Main bugbear is that it has a habit of breaking after a Windows update ( uninstalls from desktop ).
 
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Grim5 said:
Nvidia employee talks out his ass and lies, shows Nvidia hires morons to do PR

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That NVIDIA employee is not a PR person though, is he? He's a senior technical product manager of NVIDIA. As per his own LinkedIn: "Specialties: - 3D graphics for gaming, GPU Computing, PhysX and Benchmarking.".
Now, the most important bit to me is what he said about performance increases - and by that what the future holds - they can't scale up performance in GPUs anymore. It's done, a wall has been hit. Going forth with that thought, 5k series is barely any faster than 4k series and 6k series will be barely any faster than 5k series (if at all). The only thing they can do to move things forth is AI, apparently. Maybe if the whole focus of the company wasn't just on AI, they would be able to make better gaming architecture, but as things are it's just AI and that's it. Not that it stopped them from charging more and more for it, though. Roman thinks new process will improve it and suddenly NVIDIA will be like "It was possible after all :D". We'll see.

The rest is just blatant lies and corpo-propaganda, as if they're in total denial and damage control of the stock issues, pricing etc. blaming retailers for everything. They also, as usual, blame consumers for the cabling issues - bad cables, bad PSUs, bad users - just no fault of NVIDIA at all here. :P
 
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waspy88 said:
I am on a 13900k, and finally managed to get an Astral OC - at 4K gaming would a 9950x3D make a significant difference? I don't play competitive games or anything like that, mainly CP2077 and Black Myth Wukong, and Elden Ring. I have seen review benchmarks show not much difference at 4K, but some youtube videos of this comparison are showing a significant difference.
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A small boost, but not one that is worth the faff of changing everything or the cost.
You'd also get a decrease in performance for some things too
 
Gerard said:
Oh dear.....
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What a load of BS from Nvidia. Of course they can control the MSRP if they really wanted to, if they really wanted to they could ditch every AIB out there and only sell FE cards from now on, there's one way to fix scalping from retailers and AIBs. Secondly, while I have had no issues with my 4090 thankfully that's been powered on 24/7 since launch, it's still a crap connector that needs to be completely redesigned. This is ultimately the fault of Nvidia, not the PSU or cable manufacturers, as it was Nvidia that decided to use the crappy connector.

You don't see Apple releasing a new phone for say £700 then retailers jack the price up to £1400+, same for pretty much the majority of all hardware out there, but somehow GPUs seem to be the exception to this and it needs to change. While it would cause chaos, I say ditch every AIB out there and go it alone and set the damn price yourself as they can certianly afford to. So what they announce is what you will only pay, if this results in cards never being sold through retailers ever again and only through Nvidia, then so be it because I'm bloody tired of seeing an "MSRP" FE card at £2000 only for AIBs to sell one for £3000+, with some better components and a slightly better cooler isn't worth £1000+ more!.
 
Holy **** guys, Nvidia must've sacked their whole driver development team. The 5090 runs absolutely rubbish, like it draws only 200W at 100% utilisation in Elden Ring. I tested it in Furmark, 3DMARK and Heaven because I thought I had bought a lemon, but it works and performs fine in benchmarks.
 
CornyOC said:
Holy **** guys, Nvidia must've sacked their whole driver development team. The 5090 runs absolutely rubbish, like it draws only 200W at 100% utilisation in Elden Ring. I tested it in Furmark, 3DMARK and Heaven because I thought I had bought a lemon, but it works and performs fine in benchmarks.
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I wont be surprised if drivers are written by chatgpt
 
CornyOC said:
Holy **** guys, Nvidia must've sacked their whole driver development team. The 5090 runs absolutely rubbish, like it draws only 200W at 100% utilisation in Elden Ring. I tested it in Furmark, 3DMARK and Heaven because I thought I had bought a lemon, but it works and performs fine in benchmarks.
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Isn't Eldon ring capped to 60 fps?
 
If the card is pulling 200w at 100% usage, it means it's barely being pushed at all while also maximising performance at a very limited 60fps.

Touch wood, I haven't had a single issue with my Zotac 5090 Solid and the latest driver. I'll look into undervolting it soon.
 
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