NVIDIA RTX 50-Series Graphics Cards Announced

jk82 on 07/01/2025 - 14:37
Last edited 07/01/2025 - 15:37 by 2 other users

Jensen said on stage that the 5070 gives "4090 levels of performance for USD$549"

For some reference - the 4070 Super launched at USD$599, and here most 3rd party AIB's are retailing for AUD$999.

US pricing for the 5070Ti is USD$749, the 5080 is USD$999, and the 5090 is USD$1,999.

Who's getting one??!

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337396/nvidia-rtx-5080-5…

GeForce RTX 5090
Starting at AUD $4,039

GeForce RTX 5080
Starting at AUD $2,019

GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Starting at AUD $1,509

GeForce RTX 5070
Starting at AUD $1,109

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Comments

        • jk82 on 09/01/2025 - 11:27
          +1

          fake frames… mate I hate to break it to you but everything in a video game is fake, it's all hacks on top of hacks working together to present a motion image that looks real to us. water is just a bunch of tricks to make it look like water. LOD is different levels of presenting only the things you notice, POV is fake as it's not the whole world being rendered - just what you see. I don't get why everyone is upset now at frame gen being "fake frames", it's as viable a hack as everything else used - and the newer versions are doing a great job at cleaning it up and making it look more "real". anyway that's my rant lol

          • neosin on 09/01/2025 - 15:22
            +1

            @jk82: You are absolutely right, these people have never tried frame gen!
            I was a sceptic until i played hellblade 2 with dlss + amd frame gen
            Base framerate with dlss was 30 ish and framegen pushed it to 45-50fps!
            Even though this was under the 60fps base frame recommended for frame gen, I was blown away and could not tell I was using frame gen at all! It felt and looked like i was playing at 45-50fps!
            These new ai models are even better! So I have no doubt the average person won't be able to tell the difference because these ai generated images are that good!

  • SpeedAU on 09/01/2025 - 01:16

    1660 still going strong lol

  • arst on 09/01/2025 - 02:26

    Dang! Bought 4070tis last April…I should have waited..

  • hardjards on 09/01/2025 - 10:15
    +2

    Currently rocking a 3080Ti which has been a bloody good card, I cant complain.

    For me the real diliema will be do I pull the trigger on the 5080 or wait for the inevitabel 5080 Super / TI that will undoubtably be released in 12 months time to fill the massive void between the 5080 and the 5090.

    If I was running a 4080 Super or 4090 I would probably skip this generation the 30 percent "real" improvement isnt really worth the squeeze IMHO.
    What really annoys me is the utter Nvidia B/S locking the higher framegen behind an artificial series 5x vs 4x limitation. If you are interested you can buy Loseless Scaling on steam for about 10 bucks, that has been doing X4 FrameGen for a couple of months, essentailly you can run it on anything, AMD or NVIDIA.

    Like the NVIDIA solution it introduces latency into the equation. Given everyone with an RTX card - even series 2 cards will be able to access DLSS 4, only Frame Generation and Multi Frame Generation will be locked behind series 4 and 5 respectively. With Loseless Scaling you can still eat your Frame Gen / Multi Frame Gen cake if you want to on any hardware.

    • Preet on 09/01/2025 - 10:33

      Similar to you but running a 3090. I'd be happy to wait a bit longer for a 5080 Super/TI instead as I'm in no rush.

      I'll have to check out Lossless Scaling though! Sounds awesome.

    • SanguinarySeraph on 09/01/2025 - 13:38
      +1

      I look at Nvidia these days like the old Intel Tick-Tock generations. The 'new' generation is the biggest jump, and then the super etc is a relatively minor refinement possibly with a price reposition. This at least has largely tracked since the 2000 series when they started with the 'Super' Series and pushed back full generations to 2+ years apart.

      Sadly the gains in the generations is pretty mediocre too these days, but I'd still take the ~20-30% on launch, over waiting 18 months for another <5% and maybe a minor price drop.

      Good heads up on the Lossless Scaling. I think it's at least a great way to see if there's any value there over the comparatively minor raster performance increases.

  • Purp on 09/01/2025 - 10:27
    -1

    people that buy them at these dumb prices are the problem

    My personal gpu purchase history, prices just went oof
    2009 - Sapphire Radeon HD4890 Vapor-X 1GB $299.00
    2013 - Sapphire Radeon HD7950 3GB Vapor-X OC Boost Edition $279.00
    2018 - GeForce® GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 6G $290 (used)
    2022 - EVGA RTX 3080 Ti XC3 ULTRA $1000 (used)

    • SanguinarySeraph on 09/01/2025 - 13:43

      I agree to an extent, but you have to factor in inflation to some degree, and more to the point, the efficiency gains just aren't there anymore with computing, so the only real path forward is to just add more silicon which is why power, heat and price are all rising massively.

  • Jaspa7 on 09/01/2025 - 10:55
    +1

    HODLing till 3000series come down - 1070 still going strong

  • hardjards on 09/01/2025 - 11:00

    2022 - EVGA RTX 3080 Ti XC3 ULTRA $1000 (used)

    You did very well there I preordered mine and paid just a touch over 2k in Mid 21. I was comming from a GTX 1080 so the performance increase was mind blowing at the time.
    I will repaste and putty it and give it to my son for his rig where it will continue to provide good service.

    Unfortunatly I don't see the prices comming down any time soon. The reality is for NVIDIA gaming is really just a side hustle, in Q4 2024 they made 2.9 Billion US from gaming graphics sales. That sounds like alot, until you compare it to the 18.4 billion they made from AI in the same Quarter………

    A little ray of hope with Intel and AMD putting pressure on the mid range. But with AMD bowing out of the high end they can really just charge whatever the hell they want for their 5080's and 5090's. Even with those prices availability will still be scarce in the short to mid term. In fact, if the trend with the 4090's continue, it is now at EoL and still scarce!

  • Bacons on 09/01/2025 - 11:53
    +1

    apparently the Founders Editions will be available "worldwide"

    I hope this includes Australia

    • ReaperX22 on 09/01/2025 - 12:00

      Ohhhh I rarely ever pre order or day one buy anything PC related, but a founders edition 5070 for my ITX case would be SAWEEEETTTTT

    • Mael5trom on 09/01/2025 - 21:48

      Made my day, I've been trying to figure out the best way to get a FE 5090. Everything else looks way too big.

  • MrThing on 09/01/2025 - 11:57

    Gtx770 still going strong for everything I play

    • Purp on 09/01/2025 - 15:41

      runescape doesnt count

    • Bacons on 09/01/2025 - 12:36
      +5

      For the love of god educate yourselves

      literally no one here is under the illusion that the 5070 is matching the 4090 in terms of raw performance. relax

      • burns13 on 10/01/2025 - 12:30

        True. I'm actually getting tired of reading the same thing over and over. YouTubers have been baited as well.

    • hardjards on 09/01/2025 - 13:56
      +2

      "The reality is that the 5080 and 5070 are barely 1-2% faster than their predecessors." - Very unlikley to be accurate.

      "4090 is within 22-29% of the 5090" - probably very close.

      I expect it will be close to 25-30 percent across the board.

      If you go here https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/geforce/graphics-cards/50-serie… and click through the cards head to head 5 v 4 series and use the Far Cry 6 figures which doesnt use frame gen fillers you will get a pretty decent idea. The more FrameGen magic you add obviously the numbers soar.

      • S1nn3r86 on 10/01/2025 - 11:13

        you're mostly right, but dont forget that apparently there's a 66% performance increase in RT and all they showed was games with RT on, which means raster is likely to be less, probably under 20% and they would have picked games that show off the performance the best which is another worry lol. basically these cards are just moving up one tier from last generation. the 5070 is replacing the 4070ti, 5070ti is replacing the 4080. So they have the same shitty prices with these pathetic uplifts lol and using multi frame gen their lack of progress in hardware, the only somewhat temping card is 5070ti, but with the 9070xt coming out for $1000-$1100 with close to the raster performance of the 5070ti, i know which card i'll be getting. Obviousy we need to see performance benchmarks first for all of the cards but im not impressed with nvidia at all lol AMD might actually be the way to go this generation

    • neosin on 09/01/2025 - 15:38
      +2

      I remember all the dlss sceptics saying the same thing and saying how dlss was "fake" back when 20xx cards released!

      I wonder where all those people are now?

      4x MFG will work with all existing titles that have dlss3 framegen so not sure where you are getting 0.001% of games from lol?

      You will be proven so wrong when ALL new triple A titles comes out supporting this tech! You have no idea how powerful and influential nvidia has over game devs! They literally own the industry now!

      Any game dev that doesn't support dlss4 will be shooting themselves in the foot!

      Lets come back in a year and see how right I was!

    • bumluffa on 09/01/2025 - 16:11
      +1

      The 5070 will be at 4080 super levels of performance right? That's all I'm hoping for as someone with a 1440p 165hz monitor

      • S1nn3r86 on 10/01/2025 - 11:15

        no way lol the 5070ti will be though. the 5070 will be closer to the 4070ti ( non super version ) you can see the far cry 6 benchmark to get an idea of the performance

        • jasswolf on 10/01/2025 - 15:46
          -3

          5070 Ti will be just shy of 4090 levels, 5080 will exceed them by about 10%. 5070 is about 4070 Ti Super levels. Maybe raster only will be a little short of this, but there aren't going to be a lot of games in that category going forward.

          Frame gen gains - a useful tech when input latency isn't a massive concern - are well over 2x (obviously).

          • S1nn3r86 on 10/01/2025 - 15:51

            @jasswolf: LOL you're in for a bit of a shock, those numbers are way off. look at the benchmarks, its 30% ahead of 4070 ti, that would put it about 10% ahead of the 4080 super ( which is 30% behind the 4090) buts with RT on, which is a much bigger uplift, so in raster it could actually be closer to 20% uplift. not to mention they would be cherring picking games. the 5070ti will be very close to a 4080, the 5080 wont match the 4090

            • jasswolf on 10/01/2025 - 15:52

              @S1nn3r86: The marketing data is all RT, and I'm extrapolating from that.

              The hardware will pull away further over time too, that's what neural shader tech accomplishes. So much stuff to still be implemented in most games that goes all the way back to the 16 & 20 series, but the former is a dead duck without AI.

              • S1nn3r86 on 10/01/2025 - 15:54

                @jasswolf: we can only really use far cry 6, a plague tale has the normal frame gen on both cards since its only DLSS3 but we dont know if the new cards will perform better with the same Frame gen mode, but that was closer to a 40% uplift either way, but yes….these are all RT, and its for a reason because their ray tracing uplift is apparently over a 60% increase, so the raster performance without RT would be a fair bit less. its pretty dodgy honestly lol, they should be showing Raster performance too

                • jasswolf on 10/01/2025 - 16:01

                  @S1nn3r86: No, the 40 and 50 series will start slowly pulling away, then the 50 series will pull away further. People were saying the same as you when the 20 series launched, and I got laughed at then too.

                  Feel free to take a breath and work through the new technology in the GPU.

                  far cry 6, a plague tale has the normal frame gen on both cards since its only DLSS3 but we dont know if the new cards will perform better with the same Frame gen mode, but that was closer to a 40% uplift either way

                  I know, it's the same result either way, a 5070 performs like a 4070 Ti Super at 1440p. Updated frame gen model is irrelevant, and the data clearly states they are both using DLSS 3.

                  and its for a reason because their ray tracing uplift is apparently over a 60% increase

                  1.5x for full GB202 (192 SM) vs full AD102 (144 SM), though the largest chips tend to be the least performant per SM, so the 4070 vs 5070 comparison on FC6 would be much better guidance (~1.3x)

                  they should be showing Raster performance too

                  Why? Games that people crave high frame rates for are going to hit game engine caps often enough, and everything else is using new tech to bump graphics.

                  I'd be more concerned with input latency, and so is the marketing team.

    • neosin on 09/01/2025 - 15:49
      +1

      You are very confused mate!

      4090 will be 1.6-2x vs 5070 in pure raster no upscaling

      so a 2x MFG will = 4090 , NOT 4x!

      When people talk about 4x equalling 4090 they are comparing 4090(with 2x frame gen) vs 5070(with 4x MFG)

      MFG will work on ALL existing titles that have dlss3 frame gen!

      Hope this clears your confusion!

  • MindGrenadius on 09/01/2025 - 21:02
    +3

    It's a shame they didn't go with more VRAM in these models. The 5070 should have been 16gb & the 5080 at least 24gb

    • hardjards on 09/01/2025 - 21:37

      The 5070 will likley not get it, they have the 5070 Ti (16gb) to scratch that itch. I do think that a 5080 super/ti will follow the standard tick/toc of previous gens and be out in about 12 months time that will be 20-24 gb

  • shadoughinthedark on 09/01/2025 - 22:06
    +1

    I will wait for 6090. Should give me enough time to save up 5k

  • Dack Smith on 09/01/2025 - 22:25
    +3

    These will sell like hotcakes in Australia, regardless of price and performance.

    I love PC gaming but I think most gamers have lost the plot when it comes to Huang and his expensive BS, they just lap up whatever he throws out like animals to meat.

    • jk82 on 09/01/2025 - 22:39
      +2

      The whole country has lost the plot mate, the 5090 is about the same price as two weeks worth of groceries.

      • hardjards on 09/01/2025 - 23:42
        +2

        Can I just frame Gen X 4 a cartoon of eggs? It's l tastes just like 48 real eggs…. Trust me 😜

        • jk82 on 10/01/2025 - 09:11

          sorry mate, eggs are all sold out

      • S1nn3r86 on 10/01/2025 - 11:19
        +1

        two weeks of groceries ? who the hell spends 4k on groceries in 2 weeks haha. even 2 months that would be pretty crazy. what are you eating in your household ? haha

        • BLAIL on 10/01/2025 - 12:08
          +1

          4k of groceries is almost 5 months for us (household of 4)

        • jk82 on 10/01/2025 - 13:10
          +3

          what are you eating in your household ?

          GPU's

      • nobro25 on 11/01/2025 - 15:53
        -1

        Just starve for two weeks then. I've been going to the homeless shelter to get free food for the past 5 years. Probably saved up $70,000 to buy multiple super computers.

    • DrPhil on 10/01/2025 - 08:34
      +1

      How does a man get he’s hands on one of these hotcakes? Preorder with local tech shop?

    • reactor-au on 10/01/2025 - 09:25
      +5

      True, should start listing RTX 50 series on realestate.com.au

  • montjana on 10/01/2025 - 01:00
    +1

    Looks like PCCG has started listing the cards but no prices or ETA:
    https://www.pccasegear.com/category/193_2303/graphics-cards/…

  • beefmaster on 10/01/2025 - 09:41
    +5

    When I was young, I did not have the money to buy the best of the best. Now with adult money, I cannot justify the expensive price.

    • hasher22 on 10/01/2025 - 14:26
      +1

      Don't think the average person can. I'm still rocking the 1070 which for the card was a reasonable price vs the performance it gave.

      I remember getting the top of the line GeForce 4 and that's was like $300?

      No way I'm spending 3k+ for the top graphics card when next year or the year next something better may come out.

      To me, it's like phones, you don't need to upgrade each year. When I worked at Optus I upgraded each year cause of employee benefits. But now I don't. I jumped from s21 to s24 and even then…. I still use the phone like I did with the s21.

      • dqtl74 on 11/01/2025 - 10:24
        +1

        I found an old receipt recently for a 970 I bought back god knows when and it made me dig through my emails for my GPU purchase history.

        20?? - 970 - ~$459

        2016 - 1070 - $404 (from this deal)

        2020 - 3070 - $899 - (this would've around peak COVID so I think I did alright)

        Been holding on to this for over 4 years, which seems to be my usual lifespan for graphics cards. I kind of want to grab at least the 5070Ti for the 16gb of VRAM but paying +50% more than my last card makes my eyes water.

  • You Were Warned on 10/01/2025 - 09:47
    +3

    AMD are going full 14900K on the RDNA 4 9070 XT

    4080 Super raster + 4070 Ti RT

    4096 shaders
    3GHz boost clock
    16GB GDDR6 VRAM @ 20Gbps
    256bit memory bus
    TGP 330W

    Less shaders, less VRAM and narrower bus than the 7900 XT and 7900 XTX but the TGP sits between both cards

    Unlike the crippled RDNA 3 chiplets, AMD's move back to monolithic with a smaller node means lower power usage even after max boosting the clocks

    So 330W means they have likely jacked the Infinity Cache and are boosting way outside the efficiency curve to brute force performance

    Announcement on January 22

    • S1nn3r86 on 10/01/2025 - 11:24
      +1

      benchmarks put it right around the 4080 in raster too, just below a 4070ti super in RT, FSR 4 also looks so much better than FSR 3, price is rumoured to be $479usd for reference cards and $549 for AIB models ( seems a little high, im sure there would be cheap models) IF any of this is accurate we're looking at a 5070 killer lol, beating it by 20% in raster, matching in RT and cost slighlty less and with more VRAM. lets hope it all pans out because nvidias offerings are pretty pathetic lol. 5070ti looks ok but we've already had 4080's drop lower in price that what the 5070ti is and they probably perform about the same so thats not all that exciting. Dont care for frame gen

  • hardjards on 10/01/2025 - 09:48

    @ Reactor-Au you are not wrong! Look at the sizes of these things!

    https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-5080.c4217
    https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-5090.c4216

    Has a very useful breakdown of the sizes of these cards, and some of them are truly massive. I am running a Corsair full tower, and even in this monster I think I would probably need to move around my AIO radiator to the top of my case to fit in most of the 5090 cards.

    If you are running a tighter case, it may be worth doing some research to avoid dissapoinment.

    • jk82 on 10/01/2025 - 10:50
      +2

      crazy that the founders edition of the 5090 is a 2-slot "sff ready" card. I wonder how hot and loud it'll run!

      • gentlekoala5906 on 10/01/2025 - 21:00

        There's a good video explaining the new PCB and cooler, it's actually 3 separate PCBs (IO ports and PCI express are seperate PCBs) which allows maximum cooling. This is a good explanation

        https://youtu.be/4WMwRlTdaZw

  • jaimex2 on 10/01/2025 - 10:59

    Wait for real benchmarks on real games.

    nVidia hasn't posted a real world comparison or RRP in the last 5 years.

    Really we should be watching their Australian marketing and reporting it to the ACCC.

  • S1nn3r86 on 10/01/2025 - 11:08
    +2

    WAIT A MINUTE, why are so many people quoting what was said….jensen DID say it was 4090 performance……and then he said ONLY possibly with Aritifcial Intelligence, aka their new Multi frame generatio. the 5070 is no where close to a 4090 without, its only roughly 20-30% ahead of the 4070 which would make it close to the 4070ti LOL

    • Daevidge on 10/01/2025 - 13:34
      +3

      It's their stupid marketing gimmick. Wait until they release them and we'll see what people say. LOL.

      • S1nn3r86 on 10/01/2025 - 15:48
        +2

        the disturbing part is that it fooled so many people, doesn't help that some news outlets were being misleading. Surely people haven't after they announced the 40 series lol they did the same thing lmao. comparing a card that doesnt have frame gen againt one that does, basically the same tactic its except its normal frame gen against multi frame gen with 2 extra fake frakes lmao. it looks pretty horrible too from what i've seen of it in Cyberpunk, a lot of things on screen look jittery. Its just bullshit tech to inflate the numbers because this is a weak generational uplift lol

    • hasher22 on 10/01/2025 - 14:23
      +3

      Yeah that's marketing for you. For those who don't read the fine print.

  • asrey1975 on 10/01/2025 - 11:50
    +1

    I think their price calculator is broken @ NVIIDIA - their launch price is officially USD$1999 for founders edition. That's $3230 AUD according to xe FX conversion website.
    Probably adding in GST etc, we may see $3500 which if I recall is the launch price thereabouts for 4090? so figures the price should be same right? Not this $4k+++

    • BLAIL on 10/01/2025 - 12:13
      +2

      forgot about the 20% island tax

    • hasher22 on 10/01/2025 - 14:21
      +1

      Tax, more import tax, profit and extra 10% just cause it's Australia tax.

    • ArtieD on 14/01/2025 - 15:56

      Having seen some initial pricing on some brands, its $4500 + minimum.

  • cerealsmok3r on 10/01/2025 - 15:00

    I just got the 7800xt from the previous deal lol. hopefully i can use it for awhile before my next upgrade but might consider for AI capabilities.

    Hopefully AMD follows suit if their technology allows for it

  • imrichkid on 10/01/2025 - 15:41
    +1

    My uncle is Jensen Huang's specialist doctor, was told he's super funny and down to earth in person, sounds like he's a really cool guy.

    • gentlekoala5906 on 10/01/2025 - 20:57

      That's so cool, I love Jensen's story, he was like a dishwasher / busboy before he started nvidia

    • reactor-au on 11/01/2025 - 09:06

      Username checks out , how many RTX 5090 for your $10,000 home entertainment command center?

  • Raj09 on 10/01/2025 - 16:13

    Get them please. I've got shares in leather man company

  • gentlekoala5906 on 10/01/2025 - 20:51

    The 5090 FE in a 2 slot card with dual fan cooling is nuts, an engineering feat. So sad we can't get the FE models here

  • hardjards on 10/01/2025 - 22:07

    Yes, unfortuantely confimred here"

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/GeForceCommunityANZ/permalin…

    Dissapointing news NVIDIA has confirmed that they hate everyone in the Asia Pacific and that there will be no founders editions available for us. Pretty dissapointing, essentially opening the window for vendors to sell partner cards at exorbitant prices without a founders edition to provide check and balance.

    The sooner AMD and INTEL can get into the mid to high end market the better.

  • manpigbeer on 10/01/2025 - 23:17

    I guess I'll keep my 7900xt wanted to go back to nvidia but the low vram just kills my interest gaming at 4k. Ill prob get 5080ti in future I bet it will have 20-24gb.

  • loropy9 on 11/01/2025 - 00:31
    +3

    Nvidia will be milking its monopoly for years to come with small overpriced incremental improvements wrapped in marketing jargon.

  • AlmightyGaz on 11/01/2025 - 02:41
    +1

    Nvidia can (profanity) right off with those prices, really hoping this massive price hike backfires.

    • gentlekoala5906 on 11/01/2025 - 11:11

      But all cards except the 5090 got a price cut?

  • GordonD on 11/01/2025 - 19:35

    Starting at AUD $4,039

    So, about the same price as a lot of OzBargainers are willing to pay for a coffee machine.

    Sounds like an OzBargain then.

    • MikeHuntSchmelz on 11/01/2025 - 20:14

      Do coffee machines become obsolete after a few years though?

  • Kiro on 11/01/2025 - 23:23

    I'll pass.

    I already made a Ludacris purchased last year and I won't do it again.

    Realistically my laptop with a 4060 is great and my desktop with 1080's is great as well.

    • SunsetCowboy on 12/01/2025 - 01:47

      I feel like we need to know what that purchase was now. Edging isn't always fun.

  • lethalmoney on 12/01/2025 - 10:36
    +1

    I turned on cyberpunk full RT etc with DLSS last night for the first time… Was quite a pleasant experience on my 3080.
    Sure, i wont use it for most of my gaming (competetive FPS), but for the chillout pretty games - definitely.

  • You Were Warned on 12/01/2025 - 16:09
    +1

    Every single knock on RDNA 3 now being exposed by AMD themselves:

    “AMD FSR 3 will continue to grow because it works on all GPUs on the market since it doesn't require machine learning, but it has limitations in visual quality. By using machine learning, we can achieve better quality, but this requires substantial computational power. That's why only RDNA4 graphics cards can handle FSR4 technology.”

    “It is possible we can optimize it (FSR 4) to make it work in RDNA 3 arquitecture, we are on it and we want to do it, but we need to work it”

    Confirmation that the "AI cores" in the $1.4K 7900 XTX and $1.1K 7900 XT are vapourware and both cards will not support FSR 4

    Just like ROCm support has been "coming soon" for the 7800 XT for the past 1.5 years, anyone who bought in to top end RDNA 3 just got taken to the cleaners

    • lethalmoney on 12/01/2025 - 17:06

      yikes….
      The tech influencers now have both companies to trash. I'm not seeing much positivity for the 50x cards at all.

  • mike6969 on 13/01/2025 - 08:02

    I think gaming at QHD on a 32" monitor is almost perfect, due to the human eye. 4k is nice, but only slight improvement since QHD still looks sharp at that size. OLED is a nice improvement too but that's just a monitor thing.
    What I am getting at, is that the need for faster and faster GPUs is becoming less important over time (for gaming) since we've just about reached the 'ideal' resolution, frame rate, and monitor size.
    For rendering, and mining obviously more is better. But for gaming I think my point has some validity.

  • You Were Warned on 14/01/2025 - 09:10
    +1

    Someone created a nice Ada and Blackwell comparison

    • skid on 14/01/2025 - 11:19

      Will they be bottlenecked by a PCIe 4.0 slot?

      • mantra on 14/01/2025 - 13:21
        +1

        rough estimate based on the past depending on workload up to 3% difference if you ensure your card is using all 16 lanes

        PCIe 5.0 x8 is equivalent bandwidth to PCIe 4.0 x16
        like
        PCIe 4.0 x8 is equivalent bandwidth to PCIe 3.0 x16

        PCIe 5.0 is mostly for those who fill expansion slots on their motherboard reducing PCIe slot 1 to 8 lanes

        consumer motherboards have a limited number of PCIe lanes to work with, anyone with more than slot 1 filled will likely be running at 8 lanes which equivalent to PCIe 4.0

        so, if you ensure your card is running at 16 lanes under PCIe 4.0 your golden

        check with GPU-Z

  • ZackyD on 16/01/2025 - 12:07

    GeForce RTX 5090 vs RTX 4090 (Native RT / No DLSS) = +30% performance increase
    GeForce RTX 5080 vs RTX 4080 (Native RT / No DLSS) = +15% performance increase
    GeForce RTX 5070 Ti vs RTX 4070 Ti (Native RT / No DLSS) = +20% performance increase
    GeForce RTX 5070 vs RTX 4070 (Native RT / No DLSS) = +20% performance increase

    https://wccftech.com/nvidia-confirms-rtx-50-gaming-gpus-nati…

    If the above is to be accurate, RTX 40xx series owners won't really see a significant benefit in upgrading.
    I'm waiting till the Witcher 4 / GTA 6 comes out to assess whether I need upgrading.

    I own a RTX 3090

    • skid on 16/01/2025 - 12:21
      +1

      GeForce RTX 5080 vs RTX 4080 (Native RT / No DLSS) = +15% performance increase

      Hmm.. 50% price increase for a 15% performance increase…

      • skid on 24/01/2025 - 08:48

        Toms Hardware is saying that the 5080 has a 22% performance increase over the 4080 in Vulkan.

  • Pittyh on 20/01/2025 - 12:53

    Paid $2850 for my galax 4090 and i thought it was a good deal, since most others were $3000-3500 at the time.

    No way in hell am I paying 4k lol.

    • bart2 on 23/01/2025 - 17:51

      You got a good deal, looks like the 5080 wont be able to touch is in raster performance

  • You Were Warned on 20/01/2025 - 16:25
    +1

    AMD once again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

    AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT “bumpy” launch reportedly linked to price pressure from NVIDIA
    "… with reference to information from hardware retailers - about problems with the launch price.
    According to Pokerclock, the reason for the ongoing chaos could be that AMD has set the launch price of the RX 9070 (XT) significantly too high. In order to keep the new graphics cards attractive, they would have to be reduced in price before the release"

    AMD priced the 9070 XT at USD $600-650 thinking Jacket Man would jack up the price of the 5070

    After his announcement of USD $550 at CES, AMD are left scrambling, cut the RDNA 4 announcement entirely and tell AIB's who had prepared cards and displays "sorry we overcharged you"

    Now there's a global rebate game between AMD/AIB's/wholesales/retailers trying to get a pre day 1 price cut for cards to hit max USD $500

    Explains why PCCG has the entire set of 5070 to 5090 cards ready to go but RDNA 4 still missing in action

  • You Were Warned on 21/01/2025 - 11:32

    Advanced Marketing Disasters strikes again

    AMD confirms Radeon RX 9070 series launching in March

    Only AMD could ship cards to retailers and then tell them launch is delayed 2 months because of admin issues

    Their marketing and finance teams seriously couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery

    • reactor-au on 22/01/2025 - 09:53

      Well they are kind of boxed in from Nvidia at the top and Intel from the bottom. It is better to call a time-out and come up with a game plan.

  • You Were Warned on 23/01/2025 - 10:43
    +2

    Official cover story from AMD is they need 2 extra months to work on drivers and FSR 4

    By that time, the 5070 12GB and 5070 Ti 16GB will have launched so AMD can anchor again at NVIDIA pricing less 10%

    Once again proving the only thing worse than a monopoly is a fake duopoly

  • You Were Warned on 24/01/2025 - 09:46

    TPU RTX 5090 review

    +35% versus 4090 in pure 4K raster
    DLSS 4 upscaling at "Quality" mode with new Transformers model = incredible image quality
    High idle power draw, heat from 600W consumption

    • jk82 on 26/01/2025 - 22:04
      +1

      The new transformer model is the real win here. I’ve tried it in quite a few games and it’s phenomenal. DLSS 4 performance mode looks better than DLSS 3.8 quality mode.

  • You Were Warned on 31/01/2025 - 10:36

    5080 - starting from $2019 AUD
    5090 - starting from $4039 AUD

    5080 overclocks well and gets close to a 4090

    4090 deals were $2.5K AUD so $500 less for 8GB less VRAM is borderline acceptable from Jacket Man

  • gromit on 31/01/2025 - 19:58
    +1

    with real world perf results rolling in the results are…. very underwhelming :-( gone from an almost definite buy to I will try and get something cheap from last gen. Seems Nvidia was 100% marketing fluff with no substance :(

  • basketballfreak6 on 01/02/2025 - 00:39
    +2

    Looking at how everything had panned out I'm very glad that I bought the MSI 4080 Gaming X Slim for $1648 when I posted the deal from BPC Tech a year ago…

    • jk82 on 01/02/2025 - 08:00
      +1

      100%

    • gromit on 01/02/2025 - 08:12
      +1

      I am regretting holding out, should have jumped on one of the better deals from last gen. Now the hunt to find a deal or hold out in the hope that AMD's offerings aren't also disappointing turkeys

    • basketballfreak6 on 01/02/2025 - 08:39

      The writing was sort of on the wall for me when the specs and Australian MSRP was made official for the Super prior to the launch. Knowing how NVidia's been operating the last few years especially without competition I didn't think it was going to drop much in price (and that's exactly what happened as prices never got much better than the BPC Tech sale in January) and if anything things only got worse as NVidia got clever and stopped 40 series production early so there wasn't even a chance for a "clear the inventory prior to new launch" kind of sale and now we get this trash of a release with the 50 series.

      I posted this elsewhere but it's wild to me that as expensive as it was the best value card in the last few year might actually be the 4090 if you're able to get it at MSRP at launch; no need to upgrade this generation and top tier gaming experience for potentially 4 years…

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