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

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Aren't those the same territory as the 5080 and 5090 increases? No reason to expect otherwise.

Again, without a process node shrink to reduce heat generated / cooling needed AND reduce power AND reduce space used (on the board) AND reduce material cost, to get major cost / performance increases, you'd need the prior gen to be significantly misdesigned. Which it wasn't.

And again, process node technology isn't owned by AMD or Nvidia (or frankly Intel) anymore. The low hanging fruit has long been plucked.
 
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I've had a 460, a 660, briefly a 770 that EVGA sent me as an RMA, a 980, a 1080, a 3080, and a 4080.

I think I had an 8800 GT before the 460 and I can't remember back further than that.

This is the most skippable gen I can remember.
 
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Wombat said:
Aren't those the same territory as the 5080 and 5090 increases? No reason to expect otherwise.

Again, without a process node shrink to reduce heat generated / cooling needed AND reduce power AND reduce space used (on the board) AND reduce material cost, to get major cost / performance increases, you'd need the prior gen to be significantly misdesigned. Which it wasn't.

And again, process node technology isn't owned by AMD or Nvidia (or frankly Intel) anymore. The low hanging fruit has long been plucked.
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Everyone said they fucked up bad when the 4090 was announced and tested. It was known on Day 1 of release that it'd be a problem for NVidia.

Completely killed the next gen and made the CEO into a meme permanently. That press conference for the 5 series will be shit on for decades to come.

They'll never be taken seriously again unless they replace the CEO. Outright lies over framegen technology isn't going to be forgiven when the RT is barely a 5% increase between gens.
 
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If the 9070 xt has decent reviews, decent performance compared to the 5070ti, and is cheap, I’ll probably go that route. I’d like a xx90 series card, but I’m not going to fight bots for limited stock. I’ll get the AMD and see if Nvidia gets their shit together in the next year or two.
 
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I'm basically pulling the trigger on any AMD card with 24Gb+ of VRAM at this point. My 6700XT is showing its age.
 
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Even if the high end cards were widely available, I don't think I'd buy one until we have any clarity on what the power situation actually is right now (though this may be limited to the FEs):
 
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The Red Devil allows 3x 8-pin power connectors which is totally unnecessary for 99% of use cases but at this point i would be fine if they went up to 5x 8-pin simply to avoid using that god awful 12VHPWR
 
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Even if the high end cards were widely available, I don't think I'd buy one until we have any clarity on what the power situation actually is right now (though this may be limited to the FEs):
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Multi flamegen technology.
 
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I should probably do this too. When I realized my DDR4 RAM was running at default speeds and that I only started getting blue screens after it was set to full speed, simply backing it off one tick from 3200hz to 2933hz made the blue screens go away.
 
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There's only so much water you can squeeze from a stone. We need a technological leap to get more performance
 
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5 trillions to generate elf titties.
Where can I invest ?
 
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Wombat said:
Aren't those the same territory as the 5080 and 5090 increases? No reason to expect otherwise.

Again, without a process node shrink to reduce heat generated / cooling needed AND reduce power AND reduce space used (on the board) AND reduce material cost, to get major cost / performance increases, you'd need the prior gen to be significantly misdesigned. Which it wasn't.

And again, process node technology isn't owned by AMD or Nvidia (or frankly Intel) anymore. The low hanging fruit has long been plucked.
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I've been buying nothing but nvidia cards since 1999 and a one-generation upgrade has almost never made sense within the same tier (midrange to midrange etc). Some call the 4090 too good, well not a bad problem to have and not the first time either, they have released a few other cards that were so good that they blew everything else out of the water and let you skip 3-4 generations before needing to upgrade. 8800GTX, GTX480 and 1080(ti) come to mind.

Tech Jesus tested the 1080 early last year and it still gives acceptable performance within some quite reasonable constraints, 8 years after it came out.

 
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I've been buying nothing but nvidia cards since 1999 and a one-generation upgrade has almost never made sense within the same tier (midrange to midrange etc). Some call the 4090 too good, well not a bad problem to have and not the first time either, they have released a few other cards that were so good that they blew everything else out of the water and let you skip 3-4 generations before needing to upgrade. 8800GTX, GTX480 and 1080(ti) come to mind.

Tech Jesus tested the 1080 early last year and it still gives acceptable performance within some quite reasonable constraints, 8 years after it came out.

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Loved my 1080TI from EVGA, my favorite card of all time as well and lasted a good while before the 3080 released.
 
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Who makes the best quality AMD cards? If anyone does that is.
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Not sure I've ever heard anything bad about any of the brands. Powercolor's Red Devil line usually gets a lot of love though.
 
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