NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

Cinge said:

seems like a normal generational to generational upgrade. ~30% more power for 30% more cost(msrp) for 30% more power consumption.

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Usually generational upgrades come with the benefits of a node shrink. Only this time Nvidia is using TSMC 4N, which is the same process as the previous Lovelace. The last real generational uplift on that front has been with the jump from Ampere, which used Samsung 8N. Probably because Jensen Huang thought his company was the greatest and the manufacturing side is unimportant, so they tried to cheap out by not using TSMC.

The only thing saving Blackwell is the upgrade to GDDR7, and the increase in bandwidth by using a 512 bit wide memory bus on the 5090, compared to the 384 bit wide memory bus of the 4090. This is probably where the rasterization performance uplift comes from, which is why rasterization uplift is so inconsistent between games. But GDDR7 seems to need a lot of power and in turn produces a lot of heat, so it's a double-edged solution.

It now has become obvious that Nvidia is probably focusing totally and wholly on AI, and this is where their engineering staff is working on. This is going to explode in their face when the hype cycle regarding AI will inevitably crash down to the trough of disillusionment.

In the meantime you can educate your fellow casual gamers why frame generation sucks, especially for those competetive types that want high refresh rates in the first place:

• If you generate inbetween frames, you generate lag: the card plays out generated frames to the last "real" frame until the next "real" frame is done.
• If you generate lookahead frames you have to predict the future: but in competetive games (think CS2 or Valorant), how do you predict if there is an enemy behind the corner or not? This is usually why competetive players want higher framerates: to reduce their reaction time as much as possible.

Cinge said:

Sad thing is does it really matter?

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I think consoles are for dumb consumers, and they are wholly AMD.

My hope is that the PC master race buying this shit is listening to the hardcore gamers, and they will tell them that frame generation is a stupid idea. As someone already said, in his keynotes Jensen Huang looks like someone that surrounds himself with yes-men and has no one to tell him "no, that's a bad idea." Even the leather jackets get worse every year, something I never thought possible.