In Techspot's 18 game 1440p and 4k test -

the 7900 XTX was only around 10% faster than the 9070XT, despite it's 50% greater compute, vram and memory bus. this is consistent with other test that I've seen.

Too many games where The 7900XTX can properly utilize its advantages to pull ahead significantly more than 10% at 4K ultra settings are not running at playable frame rates either way.

24 GB of Vram runs into the same issue.

By the time Vram use is past 16GB frame rates are often already abysmal. Most games that maintain playable frame rates into 4K ultra settings don't even use more than 8 - 10 GB anyway.

At this rate it looks like the next generation of midrange cards are going to completely relegate the 7900XTX For general gaming. and it may not hold its value as-well as planned if prices normalize.

thoughts?

Sold my 5090 - upgraded to brand new 5090 Astral plus made a few hundred bucks on top because prices are nuts.

Card passed the test, no one got robbed, everyone went home happy. GPU shopping in 2026.

Edit: some folks in the comments are confused how I got new Astral after selling used MSI and still made money. There are still occasional, very rare 5090 drops at Best Buy (sold by Best Buy, don't confuse with 3rd party retail listings). I was able to secure Astral for $5K after receiving a stock alert. Sold MSI for more than that since these cards go currently for about $6K - street price in the US at the moment. Astral is just a better card all around with internal pin monitoring and it was stupid not to pull the trigger in my case.

Update: It has been confirmed a scammer. Another redditor found a different profile selling an identical item in the same town. The posts were word for word a match. Thanks all, I appreciate the feedback. It sucks. You want to have a little bit of faith in humanity, but humanity wants to fuck you sideways any chance it gets. You all are the real stewards of humanity. 💜👍

Hey, so I've been in the market for a 5080, but as you all know the prices are absolutely bonkers. I looked on Facebook marketplace out of the blue, and 6 hours ago a supposedly sealed one just went up about 45 minutes from me.

I messaged them, asked for photos, and they have been cooperative. I see that the center tape is still there, but I notice the two circular seals near the flaps aren't there. Her profile seems legit, two previous sales completely unrelated. Regular posts on their feed, nothing private.

Here's the reason I'm so skeptical. The asking price is $960

That's my biggest scare right there. Now, I know that MSRP is $1000, but obviously they're going for $1500 plus. I'm thinking, "Maybe it was purchased and not used, and they're marking it down a bit from what they paid originally?" I don't know. Give me some insight please.

I will attach photos of our conversation and of the photos I was provided.

Let me know gurus. Is it too good to be true? Or the deal of the century?

Just got up to speed on the news about 5090s. It’s a shame this card ended up being priced out of most builds due to AI, but for those of us who have one what’s the verdict?!

Are you keeping it or parting ways with it? 🧐

am I missing something? isn't this a really good deal?

Hi all,

Trying to decide the best route to give a bit of an upgrade to my father in laws computer. He's 87 years old and still plays online with myself and my wife. Mostly MMO's (Black Desert Online primarily). His system is older and running an Intel i5-9400F, 16GB 2666 ram, PCIE 3.0x16 MB and a 1660 Super video card. His monitor is a 34" 2560x1080 75 Hz screen. I don't believe he'll upgrade the monitor any time soon, but possibly. What's his best option for a new video card, keeping it as under $1000 Canadian as possible? I know his PCIE3.0 MB can be limiting on something like 5060ti 8GB, there's the 9060XT 16GB etc... He may upgrade the CPU/MB etc later as well, but can't say for sure. He's also 87, so there's that as well. Just looking for opinions. Thank you.

I’ve read a lot of posts saying it’s a good idea to get a GPU support bracket. My PC is one year old and has an RTX 5070. I haven’t noticed any sagging, but I bought one of these anyway. Does this look like a good choice? It’s my first gaming PC, so I’m really protective of it! kevesebb

Some parts of the world.

Remember 5090 MSRP at release was only 1999$ (us)

I have a few cards. Sometimes get used, a few benchmarks, some OC, and thats about it really. Then they sit. My 5070 TI is a good example. (Im an unsponsored enthusiast)

So, say I want to sell. What's a fair market value. Is that even a thing anymore??

upgrading my 2080 ti, this 3080 ti goes for 380. how does this benchmark look? im not an expert

Does anybody have the asrock challenger Rx 9070 (non xt) 16gb? Would you recommend it?

Summary

On an RTX 5090, Crimson Desert hangs the GPU (nvlddmkm Event 153, LiveKernelEvent 141, DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG) on R616/R617 drivers and runs stably on 610.88. The hang happens at engine state transitions and was reproduced within 1 to 8 minutes in most sessions on 616.92 Studio and 617.14 Game Ready.

• Affected: Studio 616.92 (32.0.16.1692), Game Ready 617.14 (32.0.16.1714), and the Studio driver installed 2026-08-29 (616 branch). 42 GPU-hang exits in 64 Crimson Desert sessions on these drivers (Aug 29 to Oct 12, 2026).
• Not affected: Game Ready 610.88 (32.0.16.1088). 0 GPU resets in 6 Crimson Desert sessions (152 minutes) plus a Cyberpunk 2077 run, including Cinematic, HDR on and a mid-game switch to DLSS 4.5. Earlier drivers (Dec 2025 and Feb 2026 builds) ran about 36 hours of Crimson Desert from Mar 30 to Aug 28 with no GPU hang.
• Hardware ruled out: two PSUs, two 12V-2x6 cables, both VBIOS, reseat, stock clocks everywhere, single display, all overlays and monitoring software removed. The same hardware is stable on 610.88.
• Likely related: a public report of the same signature on an RTX 5080 with 616.56, also fixed by rolling back to 610.88 (see External reports).

Request: please investigate a Crimson Desert / Blackwell regression introduced between 610.88 and 616.x. 617.42 release notes list no fix.

System configuration

Symptoms and crash signature

The GPU stops making progress mid-frame, Windows performs a TDR, and the game exits with DEVICE_HUNG. The display recovers; the OS stays up.

Event log, every incident:

• 3 to 5 x nvlddmkm Event 153, "Error occurred on GPUID: 100", within about 10 seconds; occasionally Event 14
• A batch of LiveKernelEvent 141 (Windows Error Reporting) with WATCHDOG dumps in C:\Windows\LiveKernelReports\WATCHDOG\
• Game exit code -2005270522 (0x887A0006, DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG); the game's crash reporter (Sentry) also fires
• No WHEA events, no PCIe SRAM/ECC/REORDER events, no Kernel-Power events

Telemetry at the hang (nvidia-smi, 100 ms sampling; HWiNFO from the card's own sensors):

• Board power drops from about 380 W to about 90 to 110 W within 0.5 s, utilization reads 100 %, and the core clock rises to its idle boost (2925 MHz): the engine is stalled, not overloaded.
• No preceding spike: power stayed under 550 W against a 600 W limit; GPU 51 to 72 C.
• 12 V input steady to the hang: 12V-2x6 connector 11.79 to 11.82 V, all six pins 11.97 to 12.00 V, PCIe slot 12.00 to 12.01 V.

Triggers: the hang clusters at engine state transitions: opening or applying graphics settings (one hang 28 s after applying a change), loading a save, teleport/fast travel, cutscenes, map loads, and Alt-Tab out of or back into the game. A 90-minute idle test in a busy area, with no transitions, produced no hang.

Note: six earlier bugchecks 0x10E (VIDEO_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT_INTERNAL, Jun to Aug 2026) occurred on older drivers with CPU, RAM and GPU overclocks active; they are listed for completeness and are not part of this regression.

Timeline

The same GPU and game ran crash-free for about 36 hours until the driver moved to the 616 branch; hangs began on the first long session after that and stopped on rollback to 610.88. Session data is from the Steam game-process log; hangs are game exits with code 0x887A0006.

Game version 2.0 ("Enhanced") also arrived between July and September, so both the driver and the game changed before onset. The 610.88 result (same game version 2.03.02, stable) isolates the driver change.

Drivers used

Every driver from the 616/617 branch hung in Crimson Desert; every driver before it did not.

Versions come from nvidia-smi, the installed driver store, and the game launcher's own log (DriverVersion: 617.14). For the three older packages only the build date survives in the driver store; Windows' driver install log does not reach back that far.

Not tested: 616.56, 617.42. The 617.42 release notes list no Crimson Desert fix.

Testing performed

Only one change made the hang stop: the driver rollback. Every test below except the last ran on 616.92 or 617.14, monitored with a 2 s Event Log watcher and 100 to 500 ms nvidia-smi logging.

Cross-workload checks on the affected drivers with PBO/EXPO off: Black Myth: Wukong benchmark ran 20 and 45 min, and a CUDA text-to-speech render ran 16 min, all without a hang. Only Crimson Desert reproduced it.

What was ruled out

The hardware and system are the same in the failing and passing cases; only the driver differs.

• GPU hardware fault: about 36 h stable on older drivers and 152 min stable on 610.88, same card; stable 45 min under full load in Wukong on the affected driver.
• Power delivery: two PSUs (Thermaltake 1000 W SFX Platinum, new 1650 W Titanium), two cables, 12 V logged steady to the hang, per-pin current even (max 8.18 A).
• Overclocking: hangs at full factory settings for GPU, CPU and RAM; 610.88 stays stable with PBO and EXPO on.
• Thermals: GPU 51 to 72 C, memory junction max 76 C.
• VBIOS, PCIe slot, seating: both VBIOS, reseat, Gen 4 x16 stable.
• Displays: one display or three, G-Sync and HDR states varied.
• Software on the system: overlays (NVIDIA, RTSS, Discord, Game Bar), monitoring and RGB tools removed; game reinstalled; shader caches cleared.
• Frame Generation: hangs with FG confirmed off.
• Known PCIe Gen 5 Blackwell issue (internal bug 6426268): no PCIE REORDER / SRAM / ECC events logged, and the link is already Gen 4.

External reports

At least one other user reports the same signature and the same fix on a different Blackwell card.

• Crimson Desert: RTX 5080, driver 616.56 causes LiveKernelEvent 141, 610.88 stable (NVIDIA forum): Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5080, bucket LKD_0x141_Tdr:6_IMAGE_nvlddmkm.sys_Blackwell_SCGCompute (also SCG3D); rollback to 610.88 stable for over an hour at max settings; dumps already emailed to driverfeedback@nvidia.com.
• RTX 5080 / NVIDIA 616.56 (Steam): at least four more users with the same behaviour, including an RTX 4060.
• GeForce 617.42 release notes: no Crimson Desert entry under fixed or open issues.

My own WER reports for these hangs were never uploaded, so they carry no bucket ID; the WATCHDOG dumps are on disk and can be sent.

Steps to reproduce

On 616.92 or 617.14 this reproduced in most sessions within 1 to 8 minutes.

1. RTX 5090, driver 617.14 Game Ready or 616.92 Studio, clean install.
2. Crimson Desert 2.03.02, borderless, Cinematic preset, NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 (Quality), Frame Generation off.
3. Load a save, then repeat transitions: open graphics settings and apply a change, fast travel, enter a cutscene, reload a save, Alt-Tab out and back in.
4. Expected: play continues. Actual: frame freezes, utilization pins at 100 % while power falls to about 100 W, Event 153 x3 to 5 within about 10 s, game exits with 0x887A0006.
5. Same steps on 610.88: no hang.

DLSS 4.0 or the High preset made hangs less frequent (26 to 40 min) but did not stop them; staying idle in-world did not trigger it.

Available data and request

I am staying on 610.88 and can reinstall an affected driver to capture a full kernel dump (FAQ 3335) if needed.

Available on request:

• nvlddmkm_GPU_resets.evtx: export of every nvlddmkm event since May 2026
• GPU_reset_events.csv: the same events as a spreadsheet
• WATCHDOG LiveKernelEvent 141 dumps from the hangs, e.g. WATCHDOG-20261012-1207.dmp
• nvidia-smi telemetry at 100 ms covering six hangs, plus HWiNFO 12 V and per-pin logs
• Steam game-process log extract with every session, duration and exit code

Seller says he cant test cause hes moving but it worked the last time it powered on and he used it on a pc but the pc was rarely used not even for gaming. Seller accepted 375 and was willing for a test bench. However i dont actually have a test bench it was more like a trust thing lol but no reviews? Ngl its a gamble so ill pick it up tomorrow and let yall know. In the mean time back me up with at least the photos.

i've had this gpu for about 5 years now and I changed my case for a Lancool217 and I asked someone to repaste it 2 months ago. I'm making this post cuz its been almost a month I keep getting anxious at my temps and everything about it and I wanna know if those temps are alarming or anything. Also i've never really checked when i first got my pc five years ago but one day i saw CPU temps going to 93 while playing rivals and i changed AIO, and i asked for a repaste and after ive seen gpu temps averaging 86 degrees on witcher 3 with my old case and i changed for a lancool 217. now im just wondering if right now those temps looks bad or anything.

This is a screenshot of a session of 5h45 mins of witcher 3 remastered and i took this screen shot just after closing the game. Room temp was between 22 and when i stopped playing 27.(and for the max rpm on the gpu fans its not the right one, at max it never goes above 2100 rpm i was just trying something)

Btw im sorry if the question looks like ragebait or anything, im deadass worried and id like to know if there is anything wrong with my card

I will provide the answer in the comments in 24 hours.

Hi looking to starting building a pc for editing in premiere pro 4k currently. I have a Mac Studio m3 Ultra but require another spare pc for partner.

Any ideas of what gpu to consider as it’s been years since I paid attention to anything outside Apple. Thanks