Reader Mail for January Loose Ends
Added 2025-02-07 01:08:20 +0000 UTCYou know the drill! January was an absurdly business month of RTX 5000 Releases, bizarre & exciting RDNA 4 developments, Arrow Lake Mobile details, and leaks about Nvidia APUs! Write in below with your thoughts and questions regarding all of these subjects, and upcoming products! Tom will discuss anything you submit...and also has some stuff to disclose about the RTX 5070 series...
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Do you think AI compression algorithms will create interesting artifacts or do you think that it’ll be stable?
AnotherChris
2025-02-07 18:47:46 +0000 UTCHey Mooreslawisdead, this is a second question. If AMD make their pricing aggressive for both their 9070 and 9070 xt, it could really force Nvidia to lower prices and focus more on their driver optimization. However, if AMD really do make a 32gb variant of some sort, do you believe Nvidia could lower the prices of both the 24gb variant of the 5080 and the 5090?
Sherif Lotfy
2025-02-07 17:43:35 +0000 UTCGreetings Tom, For me, the whole shenanigans concerning Blackwell is starting to feel like beating a dead horse which is getting really boring. I was initially planning to get a 5000 series laptop as my 5 years laptop just died at the start of the year, but I now wonder whether I should wait to see what we get with Nuh-vidia’s next generation. Regarding laptop CPUs, I would like to give AMD or Leather Jacket Man a shot as I’ve been running Intel for 5 years on an i7-8750H. I’m particularly interested in trying out an APU from Nuh-vidia, but I’d also like to try AMD’s X3D on laptops. Just like AMD’s Radeon graphics, I’d like to see Intel deliver on desktop CPUs before they get into mobile, but Lunar Lake did look decent if I recall. For RDNA4, I think there is too much hoppium as of right now. I cannot deny that I am taking some for myself as well, but in moderation. This generation is meant to be a fix of RDNA3 while also trying to get some marketshare (which I fear isn’t really going to happen – please prove me wrong) and I’m just hoping that it is a first step in the right direction to lead us towards UDNA which I really want to see shine. If UDNA flops, then I will truly start losing faith in Radeon.
Samuel
2025-02-07 17:18:51 +0000 UTCWill Tachyum’s Prodigy be the true competitor in the GPU market to dethrone Nvidia?
Jen-Hsun Huang
2025-02-07 15:53:15 +0000 UTCHi Tom, I wonder what your read on the 9070 XT supply in early March? With many leaks and pictures showing cards already arrived at multiple retailers around the world, I assume that the launch supply would be plenty after a month delay. Also, will FSR4 be ready at launch? I better hope so after the delay. P.S. I might misremember but I am pretty sure that we saw more leaks of 9070 XT boxes than the 5090/5080.
MultiNati
2025-02-07 15:18:04 +0000 UTCHave you seen the clever math Qualcomm is using to now claim 10% market share? https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/qualcomm-claims-it-owns-10-percent-of-u-s-windows-pc-retail-market-for-devices-priced-usd800-and-up
ProfNexGen
2025-02-07 14:38:57 +0000 UTCHi Tom, What's with the rumors about the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB and RTX 5060 8GB? I thought Nvidia was going to wait for the 3GB GDDR7 modules before releasing the Blackwell 60 Series so as not to have anemic graphics cards this time. Also, do you have any news on Nvidia's answer to AMD's chiplet technology and Intel's tile technology? I just see Radeon finally having its "Ryzen Moment" if Nvidia is trapped on monolithic designs with the law of diminishing returns kicking in harder and harder like it looks like it did between Lovelace and Blackwell. Or am I misreading the situation? Thanks.
kwerboom
2025-02-07 10:02:11 +0000 UTCHi Tom, I’ve been playing too much Hell Divers 2 lately and the TAA leaves a lot to be desired. Digital Foundry said that they wished HD2 had FSR to solve this. (Though it’s unlikely due to HD2 using the Autodesk Stingray engine that’s been discontinued) I wonder if you think it would be a good marketing strategy for AMD to seek out popular games that don’t have either side’s upscaling method and lend support to implement it so that more gamers will see and use FSR devaluing the mindshare advantage DLSS currently has.
Planet_9
2025-02-07 08:46:21 +0000 UTCHey Tom, I’ve felt like there has been an increase in interest for local AI with DeepSeek’s work showing that good ai models don’t need crazy hardware requirements. With a hypothetical 9070 XTX 32gb I think that the crowd keeping 3090’s at almost $1000 would enjoy a new vram per dollar king. Cheers to Hopeium! 🥂
Planet_9
2025-02-07 08:26:16 +0000 UTCHey Tom! Thought I'd commit some tech heresy for this channel and ask a cringe question: with the new generation of GPU's coming out, and the market shifting as it always does, what parts would you recommend for a $1,000 PC?
InsanitysReign
2025-02-07 07:57:23 +0000 UTCTom, is the 9070XT going to be a 4070Ti competitor or a 5070Ti competitor?
Kiln God
2025-02-07 03:36:49 +0000 UTCTom - Would you rather have the next version of Strix Halo or the new NVidia APU?
Kiln God
2025-02-07 03:35:01 +0000 UTCTom, is it my imagination or is the NVidia supply "shortage" due to NVidia shipping a lot of GPUs to China before Trump got in office?
Kiln God
2025-02-07 03:33:15 +0000 UTCWhy do you think NVIDIA over engineered the 5090 founders edition air cooler rather than just water cooling it?
shea
2025-02-07 01:49:29 +0000 UTCI know high end RDNA 4 was canceled, but can you imagine if AMD actually had a high end card this gen? If would made Nvidia look like more then just greedy chumps that they are, it would have wiped the floor with the 5080, and possibly nip the heels of the 5090.
Jesse Jaskowiak
2025-02-07 01:25:15 +0000 UTCAMD announced a while back that the 9070 XT should have roughly the rasterization performance of a 7900XT. However, lots of AIB models on display at CES 2025 had massive coolers and some even had three 8-pin power connectors. That seems overkill for a GPU with 7900XT-ish performance but with a monolithic die on a better node. Even the most "overkill" AIB models of the 7900XT (like the XFX Merc and PowerColor Red Devil) only had two 8-pin connectors while XTX versions of those AIB models had three 8-pin connectors. Could this just be a case of AIBs going overkill, or is this possibly evidence to back up the performance leaks you recently put out?
Question Generated By JensenGPT
2025-02-07 01:23:18 +0000 UTCGiven how Nvidia has decided to play games with supply of their new GPUs, is it possible that the "genius" managers behind this strategy might apply it to their APUs for laptops and possibly miniPCs?
Cleansweep
2025-02-07 01:21:21 +0000 UTCHey Mooreslawisdead, it seems somehow with all the time Nvidia had, that the software and drivers of the 50 series, especially the 5090 are not stable. As seen with Jayztwocents and other people reporting bricking with the 5090. This is a bizarre thing for Nvidia not to have made sure of before release, considering Blackwell was ready by Q3 of 2024. What do you think could have happened?
Sherif Lotfy
2025-02-07 01:09:52 +0000 UTC
