Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 reviews

[homerdog]

The market for $1,000+ graphic cards are miniscule. Both the 4080 and 4090 are less than 2% combined on Steam Hardware Survey. It's weird how much attention flagship graphic cards get when so few have them. I wouldn't exactly call that high demand but rather restricted supply.

It also highlights the issue with these new vendor specific "improvements" that really can only run at usable performance on the top-end of hardware. Things like real-time ray tracing and now MFG are just buzzword checkboxes on everything else than the ridiculous high-end market.

The majority of gamers have xx60 series graphic cards, be it 1060, 2060, 3060, 4060 and their laptop variants.

It's actually everything at this point except the 4060/4060Ti. Dunno when the 5070/5070Ti will be readily available. Ostensibly I think they launch later this month or next month.

 

[Kaotik]

People are reporting bricked RTX 5090s and RTX 5090Ds after installing drivers, only blank screen and card refuses to be recognized no matter even if you reset bios, rebuild the whole system, clean drivers with ddu and whatnot.
Manli suspects it's related to PCIe comaptibility
Der8auer also reports reviewers including him having issues with RTX 5080 using PCIe 5.0, reverting to 4.0 clears his problems (but doesn't help bricked cards)

https://videocardz.com/newz/some-geforce-rtx-5090d-5090-users-report-issues-following-first-driver-update

Reports of Bricked NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5090D Surge

According to widespread user reports from Chinese tech forums and Reddit communities, multiple RTX 5090 and 5090D graphics cards are failing permanently after standard driver installation. The issue affects both the standard RTX 5090 and the export-modified 5090D variant released for the Chinese...

www.techpowerup.com

Lots of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs Are Getting Bricked, Possibly Due To Driver, BIOS or PCIe Issues

Users of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs face many issues, with some cards even getting bricked with the latest drivers.

wccftech.com

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[DavidGraham]

I am starting to think the 5090/5080 scarcity issue is related to China restrictions and tariffs, how is the availability situation in China regarding these cards? It's very likely that NVIDIA prioritized all 5090D and 5080 shipments to China because after the tariffs they won't be able to ship high end GPUs there easily (or at all).

 

[Kaotik]

I am starting to think the 5090/5080 scarcity issue is related to China restrictions and tariffs, how is the availability situation in China regarding these cards? It's very likely that NVIDIA prioritized all 5090D and 5080 shipments to China because after the tariffs they won't be able to ship high end GPUs there easily (or at all).

According to those same reports, at least 5090D availability was bad just like 5090 availability elsewhere.

 

[McHuj]

I just think most of Nvidia's wafer allocation is for GB100 dies and they want to fulfill those orders first. Remember there was an alleged Blackwell slip/issue about 6 months ago. It's possible that had an impact on wafer allocation.

 

[Kaotik]

I just think most of Nvidia's wafer allocation is for GB100 dies and they want to fulfill those orders first. Remember there was an alleged Blackwell slip/issue about 6 months ago. It's possible that had an impact on wafer allocation.

Not alleged, Jensen Huang confirmed it

Nvidia CEO Confirms Design Flaw in Blackwell AI Chips Fixed, Production Resumes

Blackwell chips, introduced in March, were delayed from the second quarter

finance.yahoo.com

 

[trinibwoy]

I just think most of Nvidia's wafer allocation is for GB100 dies and they want to fulfill those orders first. Remember there was an alleged Blackwell slip/issue about 6 months ago. It's possible that had an impact on wafer allocation.

That theory makes the most sense to me. If they had really shifted all Lovelace wafers to GeForce Blackwell they would’ve had more supply at launch since Lovelace has been tapering off for months now.

 

[Potato Head]

John wants to pay you $500 for a pencil. Jack wants to pay you $5,000 for a pencil.

Who would you sell the pencil to?

 

[Nappe1]

John wants to pay you $500 for a pencil. Jack wants to pay you $5,000 for a pencil.

Who would you sell the pencil to?

I would sell two pieces of broken pencil, Getting $5500. After that I would sell duct tape with another $500 to Jack, who obviously wanted the pencil so bad that bought from John his half with extra $750.
I would end up with +$6000, John end up with +$250 (but no pencil, still quite happy though) and Jack would be extremely happy and accomplished with his brand new DE (Duct tape Edition) Pencil.