If the RTX 5090 is $2299, you still buying one?

[Fielder]

If the AI GDDR 7 Wizard will wave his wand and presto, a $549 5070 will give 4090 performance, then I would probably buy one. And not even have to upgrade my 600 PSU.

[CO2Neutral]

If I can find one for $2000 from nVidia website on “due day”, I’ll BOT buy one … 32GB DDR7 is useful.  Still hoping AMD RDNA4 pans out, probably get a 9070XT also … interested in the AMD 9950X3D vs. 9800X3D CPU compares.  Seems like 2025 will be a good hardware year.

[HiFlyer]

1 hour ago, CO2Neutral said:

If I can find one for $2000 from nVidia website on “due day”, I’ll BOT buy one … 32GB DDR7 is useful.  Still hoping AMD RDNA4 pans out, probably get a 9070XT also … interested in the AMD 9950X3D vs. 9800X3D CPU compares.  Seems like 2025 will be a good hardware year.

 Don't forget to also buy a brand new 1.21 GW power supply

[Huascar]

Will replacing your 4090 with a 5090 improve your game experience, and if so, by how much? Is it worth paying almost 3k for a card the could only get you marginal improvements?  Tough call if you already own a 4090. Now, going from 3000 series to 5090, I can see it. 

[Greggy_D]

On 1/7/2025 at 6:28 AM, Tavers said:

4090 perf on a 5070.. sureeeee.

Because they are lying by omission and factoring in all of the fake frames.  It's definitely not from pure rasterization of unadulterated frames.

[CO2Neutral]

In search of a water block for the 5090 … several teasing they will have them within 2-3 weeks.  575 watts, water cooling is a must, besides who wants 2-3 slots used up with massive heat sinks and fans, no thanks.

From the little testing presented, Ray Tracing is 2X faster in the 5090 vs. 4090 … DDR7 will certainly help overall performance across the gaming suite … so there will be an uptick there regardless of render options used.

I think GTA6 will be one of the 2025 titles that will work best on a 5090.  Never tried the GTA series so don’t have a clue, not my type of game.  

[CO2Neutral]

Looks like AlphaCool will be first to have a water block for the 5090 … never used AlphaCool before so input welcome.  Used to be EK mostly, but avoiding EK until they get sorted out financially (if they get sorted out).  AlphaCool prices do seem very low (about 1/2 as much as EK used to be) … quality?

[G-RFRY]

On 1/9/2025 at 1:32 AM, Greggy_D said:

Because they are lying by omission and factoring in all of the fake frames.  It's definitely not from pure rasterization of unadulterated frames.

AMD 2025 GPUs Improved performance thanks to Ryzen AI Powered GPUs.

[AnkH]

I am seriously considering sidegrading to a 7900XTX in my case now that it is clear that the 5080 will come with 16GB VRAM only, the 5090 will be ridiculously expensive and would also need a new PSU and the 4090 isnt dropping in price at all... lets see how the reviews are tomorrow

[G-RFRY]

9 hours ago, AnkH said:

I am seriously considering sidegrading to a 7900XTX in my case now that it is clear that the 5080 will come with 16GB VRAM only, the 5090 will be ridiculously expensive and would also need a new PSU and the 4090 isnt dropping in price at all... lets see how the reviews are tomorrow

The 7900XTX can pull over 350watt.

[AnkH]

350W vs. 575W? Slightly different, no?

[turbomax]

On 1/8/2025 at 7:04 AM, HiFlyer said:

Don't forget to also buy a brand new 1.21 GW power supply

a 1 KW power supply should suffice, which is 1.000.000 times less. unless you plan on installing 1 million GPUs or supply electricity for your 400.000 neighbours. 1 GigaWatt is equivalent to a nuclear power station.  😀

Edited January 22 by turbomax

[G-RFRY]

23 hours ago, AnkH said:

350W vs. 575W? Slightly different, no?

Under normal gaming it will never hit more than 400w. GN benchmarked a 4090 in games with an 850w PSU no problem.

[AnkH]

3 hours ago, G-RFRY said:

Under normal gaming it will never hit more than 400w. GN benchmarked a 4090 in games with an 850w PSU no problem.

I am aware of this, I even limited my 4080 via undervolting. So if I would go for a 4090/5090, I would for sure set the voltage lower and powerlimit as such, as it wont take more than 400W in any case, but honestly, it is then kind of a waste of money buying such a card and limiting it right away, no? Lets wait for the reviews

[CO2Neutral]

Someone was able to secure a 5090?  332 units for entire US on launch day … think I’ll buy the paper one on eBay.  I’ll pass at $6000 scalper prices.  Waiting for AMD 9070XT March 20th.  But heck, good news, 5090’s will restock in May … maybe 350 this time for entire US … repeat and rinse.

Checking nVidia stock price … ouch!  $600B market cap drop in just a few days!?  I know it’s a Trillion $$ company but that’s gotta hurt.  People finally catching on that AI isn’t really self learning, just pattern matching and prediction algorithms all coded by humans.  nVidia, a company that is truly over valued and over hyped … look, DLSS gives you more FPS … it’s a miracle … oh wait you mean they’re just copies of prior frame adjusted to make it look as if I’m in control?

Oh wait, stock is up a little today after the free fall … oh oh no … it’s going back down again.

Stockholder meeting presentation:

1.  Fake frame technology - check

2. Fake AI - check … lets add a dash marketing BS “Deep”

3. High 5090/5080 failure rates - check

4. Unable to supply - check

… yep, what a great company to invest in … 

I almost feel sorry for those poor souls that spent $6000 on a GPU only for it to fail after 1-3 hours of use … Naah.  Beta software and hardware these days … I can see consumer confidence skyrocketing.

Edited February 4 by CO2Neutral