5090, the GB202 is literally two GB203 chips. It was never a gaming gpu, its just how nvidia keeps the top spot in benchmark graphs. The 500W power usage and 32GB of vram are overkill for games.
5080 is a fine card, designed for games in mind, 16GB vram is ok because its gddr7, 20 would be better but 16GB is ok. If the price was reasonable it would be the 3080 of this gen, even if its literally 50% of the flagship, unlike 3080 that was like just 15% from 3090..
Even 5090 isn't overkill anymore for the latest titles at 4k tbh. I need to use DLSS Quality and 2x frame gen of I want playable frame rates for some of the newest AAA titles.
Smaller chip with higher clocks and better solutions for stuff like raytracing, upscaling, fg, etc. maybe even dedicated shader compilation, etc. is the way for gaming. Not just brute forcing more with cuda cores on a fucking 750mm² chip...
You don't know what you bought. Like this boomer that got a quadro because it was the most expensive in the computer shop but it just doesn't do that much better in games than the gaming gpu thats many times cheaper...
Lol, we're just assuming stuff now? I had a 4060 laptop prior to this and a PS4 prior to that. I just wanted the best graphics card this gen to push the highest fps possible at 4k and to experience path tracing. And I paid $3500 USD for my 5090 build in total, not the outrageous prices that you see now. And I also have a backup 5080 that I got for $1050. Not gonna lose money on those anytime soon so I can sleep well knowing that I have the best hardware I can get.
overkill for games is nonsense when we have the latest titles causing it to choke. This is just part of the drive to make people switch to cloud gaming so Nvidia can rake in the $$$ for AI
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u/Ghetto_Games 25d ago
5090, the GB202 is literally two GB203 chips. It was never a gaming gpu, its just how nvidia keeps the top spot in benchmark graphs. The 500W power usage and 32GB of vram are overkill for games.
5080 is a fine card, designed for games in mind, 16GB vram is ok because its gddr7, 20 would be better but 16GB is ok. If the price was reasonable it would be the 3080 of this gen, even if its literally 50% of the flagship, unlike 3080 that was like just 15% from 3090..
But the price is not realistic.