Not surprised at the reviews because since the announcement, I'd been saying that Nvidia was hiding something. The results are out and we can clearly see what they were trying to hide. One of the worst gen on gen uplifts in a long time both in absolute performance and value. The 5080 & 5070 when compared to the "super" variants of the 40 series will be way worse than this....
Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 reviews
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DegustatoR
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We had the same value between 1080Ti and 2080Ti - which also used the same process.
And I'm not really seeing anything particularly bad about +30% in performance. It was the same with 10 to 20 and 20 to 30. Lovelace is the only exception from the recent times and it's clearly the result of a double process switch.
DegustatoR
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The 5090 runs pretty good on PCIe 2.0 
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 PCI-Express Scaling
The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is the first high-end graphics card that makes use of a PCI-Express 5.0 bus interface. Are you in trouble when try to run it on PCIe 4.0? What about x8, like when an SSD is using up some bandwidth? We've also tested various PCI-Express 3.0, 2.0 and 1.1 configs to...
2080 S - 58%Everyone should really refresh their memory.
3080 - 91%
57%~ improvement
2080 Ti - 69%
3090 - 100%
45%~
I said "higher performing skus". ~57% compared to the ~15% the 5080 is likely to offer. The 3080 also outpaced the previous gen flagship in every performance scenario for 60% of the price.
45% is 50% larger than the 30% Blackwell offers. And to reiterate, Ampere scaled even higher than these percentages in the full RT workloads. The launches aren't very comparable.
DegustatoR
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Which are 1080, 1080Ti, 2080Ti, 3090, 3090Ti, 4090, 5090. No 2080s or 3080s there.
That depends on how you calculate Blackwell's gains.
TPU shows +35% for example while some others show +20%.
I tend to think that anything less than 30 is likely heavily CPU limited so looking at that isn't relevant.
Not really. There was like 2% difference on Ampere between non-RT and RT scaling.
DegustatoR
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Yes, but (c)
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I think that the idea to make a 2 slot SKU for FE was a proper one though. It's better to have the option than not to have it and those who want something cooler/quieter can opt for an AIB model.
Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock Review
The Palit GeForce RTX 5090 Game Rock is a custom-design variant of the RTX 5090 that's designed to offer better cooling performance than the FE, thanks to its quad-slot, triple-fan design. You also get adjustable RGB support with the ability to synchronize external lighting.
I think that the idea to make a 2 slot SKU for FE was a proper one though. It's better to have the option than not to have it and those who want something cooler/quieter can opt for an AIB model.
The difference is the 2000 series introduced a new workload.... RT. Some claim it's revolutionary, others aren't so hot and bothered by it but when you compare the RT performance between the 1080ti and 2080ti, there's a noticeable improvement. 5090 does not introduce any new workloads of note. I mean some could reference neural rendering but by the time it's relevant, we'll be on the 7000 or 8000 series. It's a horrible gen on gen increase for sure that it shouldn't even qualify as a new generation. Also blasting 575W of power is completely ridiculous and to make matters worse, they're hiding the GPU hotspot as Nvidia claims it's no longer relevant.... That is if you believe De8auer..
All in all, a very poor showing for Nvidia. However, I expected it and in fact, I expect it to get worse as time progresses. If you're a long time Nvidia employee that was granted RSU's that have already vested, your motivation for work must be below 0..... If you had 100K in RSU's prior to 2019, you're a millionaire now... Lots of people will take the money and run... I mean, even Jensen is selling aggressively.
This is probably the funniest take I’ve seen. The 5090 is disappointing because Nvidia employees are rich and lazy.
This is probably the funniest take I’ve seen. The 5090 is disappointing because Nvidia employees are rich and lazy.
If we pay our employees worse they'll work harder to try to get a raise ...
I find it funny that people were saying NVIDIA were not innovating enough "because no fast raster" yet when NVIDIA introduced new things like G-Sync, DLSS or raytracing it's "useless because no one will use them" or "these are something trivial, anyone can do that" or "fake frames!" Even now with 5090, with the new transformer DLSS models and neural textures. I guess it's best to just have super fast 2D sprite engines just like the old NES days, that'd be the most innovative thing ever!
It is a novel argument. 3.5 trillion dollar company should pay its employees less
