Nvidia RTX Discussion

Removing post. The euro prices were posted earlier in the thread, so no need to duplicate

Is it practical to do so without having the PCB oriented to be on the short-side of the card? It's that orientation that somewhat forces the width to be what it is, and the width in turn has a major impact on surface area for heat dissipation. Looks like the went a different direction entirely for the 5090 with the huge vapor chamber. Will be very interesting to see the temps for the 5090 across all of the FE/AIB variants.

Re. the compression negating the benefit, that was one of the key takeaways from the video on GN. The orientation made an enormous difference. As @K.O.Kiki mentioned in the video, the results were incredible:

The thermal results are amazing, 20-30C cooler than 4090 FE!

The bigger question here IMHO is what the benefit is of having those much lower temps? The heat is still generated regardless, but is just dissipated faster. Those chips will run happily at the higher temps, so it seems like the cooler would only be suitable where the ambient temp is so high, you need to remove heat as quickly as possible. It's a great video if you have time to watch it through. He did mentioned he was going to be speaking to the Nvidia thermal engineer they had on before and he was going to try and get some answers about the board.

I was thinking of downgrading actually.

My values have changed, and having a nice cool room instead of a sauna is becoming a priority.

My room is small enough and the bloody heat from the PC makes it almost impossible to game in the summer.

Less a case of thinking, more a case of couldn't achieve the performance.

If they drop prices meaningfully and can get decent volume that's better. Allowing the graphics market to continue with massive price increases for small performance gains covered up with fake improvements like upscaling and frame generation is ultimately bad for everyone.

According to overclockers their preorders are starting on the 30th @2pm

Yeah I'll hopefully be trying my luck with caseking. Aib cards are looking expensive

https://videocardz.com/pixel/gigabytes-custom-geforce-rtx-5080-cards-listed-in-eu-only-one-model-at-msrp-so-far

Bear in mind, it's basically impossible for an AIB partner to match the MSRP, because nvidia aren't charging themselves a profit margin on the gpu. Nvidia are making you believe that their partners are "expensive" when it's really their own predatory behaviour on multiple fronts that makes it that way. That's why EVGA got out of the game....

I think embargo lifts on the 24th

Some 5090 prices in Spain (VAT 21%). Hello darkness my old friend 🥲. Look forward to reviews.

If AMD want to capture market share this be best time with nivida high prices let hope Rtx 5070 and Rtx 5070Ti are not going to be in short supply like 5080 and 5090.