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So, who's getting a 5XXX series card?

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I sure as hell ain't. $2500 is a whole lotta cheddar. I've been lucky enough to grab my 3080 new from my best bud at a discounted price, but now I've been noticing stutter @ 1440 and had to lower some eye candy so it wouldn't happen as much, and this is with old games! ( Sniper Elite 4, TC Breakpoint/Wildlands). I'm on my last team green card.

When I make the jump to AM5, I'm snagging a 7900XTX, and I don't want to say this out loud, but *whispers* I'm going to keep it......air cooled!


So, who's going to eat ramen noodles for the next 2 years to get a 5 series card?
 
The latest rumor is $1,999 for the 'reference' 5090. Surely, AIB cards will be more expensive, but I doubt $2.5K will be an MSRP outside of maybe a Halo model. Also, there are other cards down the product stack that will be a wortwhile upgrade from the 3080 (5070? - sub $800?). I'd much rather have a 5070/5070 Ti than a 7900XTX (the usual reasons)...

That said, I'd wait to see what AMD has to offer you in the new generation before I go off buying any 7000 series AMD card. With AMD only competing in the mid-range and with the improvements it's supposed to have with power use/RT, it behooves you to wait and see if it's at a good price-to-performance ratio for you.

I'm surprised you're having any trouble in those games with that card at 1440p...they aren't vRAM hungry at all...I'd look somewhere else personally.
 
I'm going to try to go for a 5090 and a 9800x3d build and pass down my existing build to my youngest so that him and his brother can have dual PCs next to each other to play PC games together.

Honestly hoping to do it before possible Tariffs...
 
I'd rate myself as "likely" to get something, but it sure wont be the 5090. See where the pricing and availability falls, could be either 5080 or 5070 Ti for me. I don't have any expectation for AMD to produce anything sufficiently interesting next gen and Intel will be too low end.
 
I doubt I will buy one. If I have some luck, I may get a review sample, but only a few top websites get the highest models for reviews. I may consider 5070Ti/5080 as a 4080 replacement for reviews, but that's all. For gaming, I'm fine with RTX4070 Super, so I'm not sure if there is any point in spending money on something better. Another thing is that I can't afford $2k cards (probably closer to $3k in Poland).
 
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I doubt I will buy one. If I have some luck, I may get a review sample, but only a few top websites get the highest models for reviews. I may consider 5070Ti/5080 as a 4080 replacement for reviews, but that's all. For gaming, I'm fine with RTX4070 Super, so I'm not sure if there is any point in spending money on something better. Another thing is that I can't afford $2k cards (probably closer to $3k in Poland).
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In all honesty, if the 5090 cards end up costing $2k, it will have to offer a massive increase in performance over my existing 3080 (I expect it will) and/or if we get benchmarks of both at the same time it may swing me towards a 5080. Ultimately, I want to be able to run at 4K with my Monitor/TV without any real need to disable settings unless they are useless.
 
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In all honesty, if the 5090 cards end up costing $2k, it will have to offer a massive increase in performance over my existing 3080 (I expect it will) and/or if we get benchmarks of both at the same time it may swing me towards a 5080. Ultimately, I want to be able to run at 4K with my Monitor/TV without any real need to disable settings unless they are useless.
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I still have to find a game worth spending money on hardware. Most titles are for one weekend, and I won't spend $1.5k+ on 5 to 20 hour games. Online games are less demanding, but also there is barely anything good from new titles.
4070 Super handles most games at 4K and acceptable FPS. I'm not talking about some AAA titles with well-known performance issues. Ultimately, 5080/5090 would be great, but significantly better only in a few games (at least if you don't need 200FPS+ at 4K).
 
I'm in a similar boat. If it's coming out of pocket, I'd look at the 5080 or 5070 Ti for 1440/165+ gaming. I could use similar performance with a lot less power. It's one of the reasons I'm moving to AMD CPUs as I just don't need what the Intel offers.

It feels like a lateral move from a 13900K/4090 to a 9900X3D/5080, but that's about 150W less power in the same or better performance (games) envelope.
 
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I won't answer the OP's question on the grounds it may incriminate me (and my intelligence) :chair:

As far as science it sounds like it will do the work of three 4070 Ti Supers. That would incur an electricity savings that would pay for half of it in 2 years. not that I actually make the effort to be factual with math. I could skip a year of buying a new Pixel phone that would pay for half. Skip going to Wawa 5 days a week that would be another $250 to $500 a month. (This last saving was how I afforded my last Harley). :beer:

So you can see by my math that buying a 5090 would actually save you $2K to 3K a year, a way to make easy money.:cool::giggle:
 
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Im planning on picking up a 5090 non FE after all the scalping is over. I also plan on getting a pile of 5070 Ti for distributed computing. Off setting the costs by selling off my older 40 series cards.

If you are upgrading for gaming make sure everything else is up to snuff. No reason for a 5090 if you are still rocking 1080p.
 
On the 4k gaming side, IMO the 3080/4070 family are what I'd consider "entry level" in that space. I had run a 3070 with a 4k TV for a long time, and getting a 4070 provided a nice uplift now that I've paired it with a 4k monitor. But for modern games, if you want a somewhat high settings and a 60fps floor, you'll be reaching for upscaling to help get you there. A bit more perf would allow any of higher settings, more fps or backing off the upscaling level a bit or totally.

Rumours have claimed 5080 will be 4090 like, and whenever we've had new gen being about a tier higher than preceding gen, it's close but not exact. This is why rumoured 5070 Ti is entering my radar. It might be a bit slower, but it'll still be damn fast and a good bit cheaper. Again, a lot of rumours and speculation. I know nothing. Not just about future GPUs, but in general :D We'll have to see where perf actually ends up, at what price, and decide from there. We have some bounds, but nothing is certain.
 
I am not buying anything until I see benchmarks and pricing from AMD's 8800xt series. But I would be shocked if I go Nvidia, they would need to be price/feature competitive with AMD and need to match AMD on the driver side of things.

I am interested in seeing where the pricepoint/value ends up between the two because while the 7000 series of cards is fine, its not great on power and its value in the mid range gets iffy.
 
I want a 5090 but it will depend on my out of pocket total. If I can get a decent amount for the 4090 that will help a lot but I'm not sure if resale will be so inflated this time. If I can keep the difference under a thousand I'll probably go for it but I need to see some performance numbers first.
 
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