Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 reviews

The different reviewer conclusions are interesting. GN thinks nobody should buy the 5080. Because clearly everyone already owns a 4080. TPU on the other hand recommends the 5080 to the consternation of some readers. The logic there is that if you have $1000 to spend that’s the card he would recommend.

The second approach is obviously more in line with how people actually make purchase decisions but the emotional takes are fun to watch too even though they’re completely useless.
 
It isn’t unreasonable for GN to have that opinion. If you were looking to spend 1000 on a video card and the 4080 didn’t compel you why would this?
 
trinibwoy said:
The different reviewer conclusions are interesting. GN thinks nobody should buy the 5080. Because clearly everyone already owns a 4080. TPU on the other hand recommends the 5080 to the consternation of some readers. The logic there is that if you have $1000 to spend that’s the card he would recommend.

The second approach is obviously more in line with how people actually make purchase decisions but the emotional takes are fun to watch too even though they’re completely useless.
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In U.S.
For $1000, I think 5080 would not be extremely bad deal for some one like me with 3070Ti or less. More like okayish... slightly steep, but not too bad.

Unfortunately $1000 (or 962 euros, 34 cents, according to xe.com ) is not nearly enough here to get one. MSRP in europe was 1229 euros and after those cards were sold about in one minute, now AIB card's average price is here (finland, 25.5 % vat included) slightly under 1,600 euros. (which is $1,661.81. Even if you rip off the vat, you still end up to price 1332.00 USD.)

Too bad for us.
 
The 4080 and 4090 sure seem to have undergone some major rehabilitation as time has gone on. Those cards also received quite a few mocking and scathing reviews at the time but we've now arrived at a point where some of the same people are making them sound like really solid choices.

Okay, the 4080 price cut certainly helped a bit but it's still fundamentally the same device. And the 4090 never even got that. If anything the opposite happened.

Does this mean anything? To me, two things - perspective changes everything, and shitting on everything is just a core part of some reviewers' brands.
 
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