Die Shrink 143: Initial RTX 5090 Impressions
Added 2025-01-24 08:50:30 +0000 UTCWe break down our initial thoughts on the RTX 5090, and explain why RTX 5090 performance seems to have not lived up to its specs…
0:00 Immediate RTX 5090 Reactions
11:00 AI & Ray Tracing Performance Disappoints
21:13 Is the RTX 5090 even for professionals?
28:35 Could the RTX 5080 & 5070 be even WORSE?
34:42 Clues that Blackwell is Imbalanced
43:19 Will any of this hurt Nvidia?
https://www.techspot.com/review/2944-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090/
Ridiculous: https://www.techspot.com/review/2944-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090/#2025-01-23-image-2-jpg
LTT Testing suggests FG still sucks: https://youtu.be/Q82tQJyJwgk?si=WeiVlNImWXI0Qc6f&t=788
LTT underwhelmed by AI Performance: https://youtu.be/Q82tQJyJwgk?si=Gy7rr2EL99AGxtaJ&t=1047
Capped Power Scaling: https://x.com/ComputerBase/status/1882433556678615247
Mostly Underwhelming 8K Performance: https://www.techradar.com/computing/gaming-pcs/nvidia-rtx-5090-8k-performance-has-blown-me-away-already-and-its-mainly-thanks-to-multi-frame-generation
AdanFS
Comments
Nahhh that wouldn't hurt anything.
Moore's Law Is Dead
2025-01-24 23:46:33 +0000 UTCRegarding my comment on temperatures and noise, I must admit that I am biased towards fat bricks. I just prefer their aesthetic and thermal/noise performance in comparison to slim two slots. While I do think that being able to air cool a 600W card with just 2 slots is quite impressive, I guess I just wished that the temperatures were lower and the card quieter, compared to a fat brick (if I compare it to the AIB reviews that are out today). Concerning noise level, I have to say that I am pretty ignorant. Funny to say, I was initially hesitant to watch NuhVidia's (sorry, but I can't help it now that I heard it from you guys) CES presentation (after being terribly disappointed by AMD for which I LITERALLY tuned in to see RDNA4 get announced), as I wasn't expecting Jensen to give much attention (if any) to Blackwell "Gaming" GPUs. Suffice to say, I jumped like a complete fanboy (I am neither a fanboy of NuhVidia or AMD or Intel) when I saw the 5090 and told myself I had to snag it ASAP for "only" 2000$. I then proceeded to read around 10 hours of forums threads on it and slowly started telling myself that I was perhaps being a bit too emotional and should wait for the reviews. The only things that really fascinate me at this point are new technologies like neural rendering, materials, textures and shaders which look really interesting to me. I also really hope for AMD that UDNA will be good (return of high end...?), but one can only hope...
Samuel
2025-01-24 16:26:19 +0000 UTCDo you think the reason there's not a big increase in performance based on memory bandwidth could be from game developers not using all of the memory that's available on the 1590? If they don't try to use more than like 16 GB of memory or 20 or something, would that cause data to have to be filled into memory over and over again that's limiting the true benefit of the bandwidth?
Early80sPC-Gamer
2025-01-24 14:48:00 +0000 UTC
