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Poll: Whose going to get one - 5000 series

Are you purchasing a 5000 Series GPU?

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TNA said:
Looks like Nexus18 finally upgraded from his 3080 to a 5080.

Apparently he had no issues grabbing an FE again like he did with the 3080 :p:cry:

Anyone else try and miss out? How long did the 5080 FE's last in stock?
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Must sting when you realise you could have had near identical performance for over a year with a 4080S at the same (or less) price. :cry:

Hindsight is not a kind lover.
 
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Turbo Ben said:
Now I've had a look at reviews i've changed my vote from on the fence to no.

5090 is too expensive. It's an average generational performance increase with a massive price hike. At £1800 i'd probably have got one, but nearly £2000 is more than the rest of my system combined, and that's for a 7950X3D and all the kit for a custom loop. I just can't justify it. I'd love to know what sort of system Jenson had in mind when he said we all have $10000 command centres?

5080 is a 70 class card at 80 class pricing. They tried this last gen with the 4080 12GB, but at least they still had a proper 80 class card in the 16GB version. The 50 series doesn't have an 80 class card in my opinion. I doubt we'll even get a mid generation 5080 super. The 5080 is already using the full GB203 die and the 5090 is already a cut down GB202 die. Can't see them cutting it down further just to flll a gap in the product line up, unless they have a large number of defective dies.

Not interested in taking a risk on a used card so my 2 remaining options are both AMD with either a 7900XTX for under £700 or wait and see what the 9070XT can offer.
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5080 is actually a 60 class card. 4080 16gb was a 70 class card. 4xxx also didn have a classic 80 card.
 
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I wasn't going to buy it. I was going to skip this gen. FOMO kicked in yesterday, and I thought if I managed to get an FE on launch,h then it was fate, if I don't then I'll skip this gen. My FE is turning up soon, to be fair, it was cheaper than my 4090 from OcUK on the launch date.
 
I've bought every "Halo" card since the 1080ti but i really can't Justify these prices now over £2k is ridiculous for a Zotac 5090 i think i may skip this gen :(
 
cHk4 said:
I wasn't going to buy it. I was going to skip this gen. FOMO kicked in yesterday, and I thought if I managed to get an FE on launch,h then it was fate, if I don't then I'll skip this gen. My FE is turning up soon, to be fair, it was cheaper than my 4090 from OcUK on the launch date.
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FOMO?

Over a chunk of metal and sand whos only contribution is a handful more frames per second in video games? Not here to tell you or anyone else how to spend the cash, but with the exception of the top 1%ers surley theres got to be some part thats thinking really? Will you really get 2k's worth of enjoyment over what you would have got with your existing card?

For me theres 2 trains of thought that is logical for these cards

Top 1%ers, frankly who cares what they do, if they want it they can probably get one off Jenson direct, contacts etc I cant see henry cavil lining up at a best buy for example.
Users upgrading from older (5+ Year old cards) Theres a value in this as potentially their existing cards are holding them back, but after 5 years waiting another 6 months for things to settle down isnt going to hurt. Thise upgrading from 10+ year old systems, frankly looksd at a previous gen halo card, 3090 ti's will be dropping in price and will be a massive jump from say a 980ti or whatever

For everyone else, why? Genuine question id really like to understand as outside of business requirements (high end video editing) what are you gaining other than a hole in your wallet
 
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stuie said:
FOMO?

Over a chunk of metal and sand whos only contribution is a handful more frames per second in video games? Not here to tell you or anyone else how to spend the cash, but with the exception of the top 1%ers surley theres got to be some part thats thinking really? Will you really get 2k's worth of enjoyment over what you would have got with your existing card?

For me theres 2 trains of thought that is logical for these cards

Top 1%ers, frankly who cares what they do, if they want it they can probably get one off Jenson direct, contacts etc I cant see henry cavil lining up at a best buy for example.
Users upgrading from older (5+ Year old cards) Theres a value in this as potentially their existing cards are holding them back, but after 5 years waiting another 6 months for things to settle down isnt going to hurt. Thise upgrading from 10+ year old systems, frankly looksd at a previous gen halo card, 3090 ti's will be dropping in price and will be a massive jump from say a 980ti or whatever

For everyone else, why? Genuine question id really like to understand
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Yep! I always get excited about new launches of things I'm interested in, I always have. I find the thrill and excitement of the chase are normally better than the catch though. It gives me the same vibes as the midnight launches of years ago, with everyone in Discord, forums and all getting excited about it. I'm going from a 4090 so it's not going to be a HUGE upgrade, however, I do games in 4K and I hate getting low frames in games, I play POE2 on hardcore which means if I die I lose my character and there is nothing worse than getting a massive FPS drop in a massive amount of monsters (granted it's not all that frequent but it's frequent enough to be annoying.) I'm not sure why I'm like this, although I do have some thoughts and ideas but I'm not going waste time yapping on that lol. I have no interest in clothes and stuff like that, pretty much the only hobby I have outside of hiking and gym is gaming.
 
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stuie said:
For everyone else, why? Genuine question id really like to understand as outside of business requirements (high end video editing) what are you gaining other than a hole in your wallet
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For me it's getting VR to run really well but i can't really see the 5090 making that much of a difference due to the low uplift this gen so it's putting me off especially at those prices! if reviews come in though saying i can now play ACC in glorious 90fps on max settings then that'll be a different story but i won't hold my breathe :cry:
 
stuie said:
FOMO?

Over a chunk of metal and sand whos only contribution is a handful more frames per second in video games? Not here to tell you or anyone else how to spend the cash, but with the exception of the top 1%ers surley theres got to be some part thats thinking really? Will you really get 2k's worth of enjoyment over what you would have got with your existing card?

For me theres 2 trains of thought that is logical for these cards

Top 1%ers, frankly who cares what they do, if they want it they can probably get one off Jenson direct, contacts etc I cant see henry cavil lining up at a best buy for example.
Users upgrading from older (5+ Year old cards) Theres a value in this as potentially their existing cards are holding them back, but after 5 years waiting another 6 months for things to settle down isnt going to hurt. Thise upgrading from 10+ year old systems, frankly looksd at a previous gen halo card, 3090 ti's will be dropping in price and will be a massive jump from say a 980ti or whatever

For everyone else, why? Genuine question id really like to understand as outside of business requirements (high end video editing) what are you gaining other than a hole in your wallet
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can sell my 4090 for about £1700 so paying £600 extra for a 5090 seems worth it :D
 
VinylRichTea said:
No, I have a 4090. Last time around, I managed to get one within a week of its release. Do I want a 4090Ti? Nope. It's the 1000 to 2000 series all over again.
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Yea but the 2080 beat the 1080ti while costing 600 bucks or something. The 2060super is still in the ballpark of the 4060, that's a completely different era of tech.

I still think people haven't accepted just how bad this generation is. There were no hardware advancements. It's all software. This generation is more of the mid-gen ti/super releases than a full fledged generation. I'm pretty sure they are more disappointing than standard ti/super uplift, let alone a supposed whole new generation.

Richest company on earth, made no advancements in over 2 years. That's crazy. And AMD still couldn't put a scare into them, performance wise? This whole situation is bizarre. The 6800xt was arguably the most impressive GPU 2 gens ago, and the XTX was 80% of the performance for half the cost, which is very impressive - but they aren't even trying this time? If they had just perfected their original design for the XTX and turned it into a 4090 competitor for say, 3-400 dollars less, even that would have been very cool. Instead, they didn't even try? What is going on here? Is TSMC gouging these companies?

Surely not every 5090 die is gonna be a champ, what are they doing with the defective ones? Are those the china 5090's? Remember when the 80 series was the defective big die? Now they use tiny dies and charge us 900 bucks for the shroud

And what is with the paperlaunch? Why do they give so many review units out, especially since they knew the reviews would be negative? But I saw even channels with like 20k subs getting 5090's, but they could only give like 5 to entire countries lol? What the **** is this world? How about they just make more for slightly less margin, wouldn't that be better for the brand? Maybe they've figured out we all secretly have weird issues and if they treat us like dirt we'll stick like mud? Capitalism is somehow failing in this weird market, where you have people lined up and only like 5% of the demand gets filled and nobody is happy.

I wonder how much buying 20k youtube subs cost. Maybe it'd be more efficient to vaporfilm a tech channel, pay 5 grand for 20k subs, then get free cutting edge hardware for life -_-

Do they have to send back the tech they review? They must right?
 
ImMrChris said:
For me it's getting VR to run really well but i can't really see the 5090 making that much of a difference due to the low uplift this gen so it's putting me off especially at those prices! if reviews come in though saying i can now play ACC in glorious 90fps on max settings then that'll be a different story but i won't hold my breathe :cry:
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Me too, and I would have talked myself into buying a 5090 if they were readily available - which is so dumb of me.

Iracing is my main game, and it looks gorgeous in a quest 3 with a 4080, I'm perfectly content with it, so I'm just gonna find something more productive to do with this 3500 bucks

Off-topic, think it's too late to buy nvidia stock?
 
RevBillyG said:
Still waiting for stock to arrive over here. Also, will NOT be paying the prices that the Dutch sellers want.
eg

ASUS Prime GeForce RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7 OC Edition​

Germany: 1269eu
NL: 1849eu.

Pre-scalped for your pleasure.
They can go do one tbh.
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As an update to this, one of the biggest electrical goods sites in the NL are actually advertising at the MSRP (it's all the PC-based sites that are scalping). So that's nice. Of course, they have no stock but it's a start :D
 
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