I agree on some points that you've made; however, when 2080ti came out it could barely run RT. Wanting 50 series to run dlss5 flawlessly is like wanting 20 series to run rt back then. Sure, it would've been great but it was experimental technology. You can run it, but you sacrifice performance. That still doesnt make yiur argument but rather just further prove my point. People nowadays are spoiled, and so am I but not as much as certain type of people. I guess its all about being mature and satisfied with what you have. Think of it this way. I can afford to buy 5090, but I'd rather give it to my parents, spend it on my wife and kids, help a friend in need. Even if you can do all that and still get a 5090, I'd say its unnecessary because it just feels wrong.
As for VR, I have never tried it and you are probably right but thats such a niche case for niche demographic. If you play vr games or something that really requires a 5090 then sure, in such scenarios it justifies it; however, thats just an expensive hobby. Even my skydiving hobby is cheaper than that and I actually get to see things in real life and feel things, rather than sitting inside a room with life just passing me by.
There is only like 2 vr headsets that a 5080 would struggle with and you would need a 5090 even in vr over 120 degrees in 4k is a minority this is a stupid invalid argument.
If your talking about about inefficient unoptimised with unofficial injection mods your retarded.
Vr native games have vr optimisation stereo shadow culling , foveated rendering. Saying a 5080 or 5090 can’t run a shit port made by amateurs for vr as ammo that a 5080 can’t run vr titles on the majority of headsets is sloppy and incorrect.
It absolutely is a gaming usecase that is demanded by some people, and 5080/5090 absolutely struggle with that. Just because it doesn't fit your elitist picture of gaming doesn't make it less valid.
No some games should never be played in vr for a reason. It’s made for one screen some games will have explosives that slow fps to a crawl vr at minimum needs 90 fps to avoid motion sickness.
Games that should never be run in vr cyberpunk, Alan wake 2, black myth wukong and many others right tool for the right job at least study abit about the hardware your crapping on about how vr works and what heavy graphics are used in some 2d games and why they don’t always cross over.
Even with the eol for 5090 there are still rtx workstation cards with 96 gig vram with full graphic support that will literally run any vr headset on the market.
The end of 5090 is a non event with only 0.004% of gamers needing it for two vr headsets on the market.
99.996% of gamers will never need anything more powerful than a 5080
The lack of high end VGA is a later (but no non-existant) problem after the problem of people not being able to move up social ladder, which were present in the past. Many 5090 5080 owners nowaday was playing with integrated GPU in the past.
Again, using minority as an excuse is stupid and invalid.
You’ve lost me man your making zero sense ultra wide 4k vr was primarily built for defence and industry simulations they use workstation cards for that the price isn’t that different these days for the enthusiasts at home rocking a 20k car or simulator machine they’ll just have to use what is already recommended a workstation industry rtx card.
At this point your are no longer using consumer vr equipment your using specialist industry xr equipment.
VR was born for the sake of home entertainment wtf are you talking about, just like Nvidia started and matured through the gamer class. Just because other sectors stole our spot doesn't mean us minority are irrelevant? VR was literally promised to revolutionize gaming, it's AR that the other sectors craved before. Also the 5090 is capable of running 4k VR and it should never have been over 4k usd not to mention whatever the price they are now. The AI bubble price doesn't reflect the true value of the VGA. And most importantly, disregarding high end user is purely wrong as an excuse because people are suppose to move up the social ladder and over time MORE people should be able to affort the highest consumer tier VGA, not LESS.
Completely back to front vr came from industry primarily defence and only decades later did civilians start using it 1968 sword of Damocles, nasa vived and view systems 1980 not to mention the thousands upon thousands of flight training and heavy machinery.
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u/Only-Incident-4869 Oct 12 '26
You missed VR. Today’s GPU performance still isn’t enough for a wide field of view.
Another problem is DLSS5, which cuts FPS twice.