RTX 5000 Series Review discussion

[Kaamos_Llama]

Nvidia can push graphics as much as they like but if there is nothing worth playing, why upgrade.

Youre gonna have to speak for yourself there

One thing that is interesting is that Nvidia is going to have to make a significant breakthrough next time in terms of efficiency. The 5090 draws so much power that when you add the rest of the components in, the system can barely be powered by a standard US outlet. In fact, they are selling PSUs now that I could only plug into the outlet in my laundry room. I don't think they'll want to lose the US market, so the 50 series cards may be the last ones for awhile until they figure a way forward that doesn't include a big jump in power consumption.

I doubt I'll get a 5080. I'm going to wait and compare it to the 5070 ti. I'm not actually in a big hurry, but I'm going to be getting a payout on my 2080 laptop from the extended warranty company in a couple of months. I was just thinking that might get me a new GPU.

Yea the power use is awful, theyve really improved the coolers but these things are getting kind of silly at the high end.

I was just pointing that out since you and Kaamos kept mentioning AMD and people keep pretending that DLSS 4 doesn't exist. But for all we know, AMD will have something very similar when they fully reveal their cards. But everyone pretending that traditional rendering is all that really matters is kind of nuts. I'm not specifically talking about you two. I've been wandering around to different sites and seeing what people are saying.

The truth is that 90 percent of what people will be playing will be big AAA games and DLSS 4 will be in all of them, so AMD needs to keep up, and they probably will. We just don't know yet.

Obviously FSR has frame gen and upscaling, its improving but probably wont be as good as DLSS4 because they wont be using AI, assuming things go as they did before. Thing is if they can provide comparable quality and performance at a really good discount then they might actually grab some market share again this time around. I'd love to see Intel doing the same.