r/hardware • u/diabetic_debate • Jan 20 '25

Video Review [der8auer] - RTX 5090 - Not Even Here and People are Already Disappointed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAceREYg-Qc
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u/jhoosi Jan 21 '25

Then don’t.

Nvidia knows it can ask for high prices if people pay for it, and with AI being the prima source of their income they probably don’t even care if you don’t buy it.

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u/elessarjd Jan 21 '25

Doesn’t change the fact that I want to run games on 4K and don’t want to upgrade in 2 years by getting a weaker card. They have leverage and they know it.

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u/NamerNotLiteral Jan 21 '25

absolutely nothing is stopping you from turning the graphics settings down slightly in 2 years. You can get tens of frames back for invisible changes

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u/firagabird Jan 21 '25

No, if I go from Ultra to Very High, I literally turn into pixels

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u/jhoosi Jan 21 '25

Alas, that’s the state of the PC gaming market, unfortunately. Gotta pay to play… right into the hands of Nvidia, that is.

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u/a-mighty-stranger Jan 21 '25

I’m in the same boat and don’t know what to do. I’m mostly concerned about the 16gb of vram on the 5080 for AAA games in the next few years.

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u/RyzenSavior Feb 04 '25

I wouldn't worry unless your playing 4k native or doing ai. This sudden marketing scheme to suggest that anyone with less than 40gb of vram is screwed. Lol I guess they are called influencers for a reason. I do play 4k native on a custom looped 4090. I also use extra vram do having 6 displays active and some tensor apps in play. I also have a dedicated stat screen so I regularly see my realtime vram usage. Even the most demanding aaa title run about 14gb. Most run 10-12. At 4k native or with rendering at 8k and running at 4k. If you run 1440 or use upscaling your vram usage will be much less. Simply because texture size (resolution) will be one of the largest variables that affect vram usage and then raytracing stuff. Your probably gonna be fine until we goto 8k resolutions. In which case we would both need new gpus. Even the 4090 or 5090 will run like crap in 8k native with raytracing. On the other hand... they definitely want to convince you it will never work and you better buy more. "The more you buy the more you save"!! Lol

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u/detectiveDollar Jan 21 '25

Unfortunately I can't blame them, the 4090 was difficult to find in stock for MSRP for a LONG time and it's availability tracked with the AI boom.