So the RTX 5000 series is expensive, very expensive, draws a lot of power like V12. Sometimes it looks like a tweaked version of the RTX 4000, just squeezed. What's worse is that prices have increased for the fastest model and nothing justifies 2000$, not for gaming. It's the fastest card, but the game requirements don't stand still. If the poor performance of the RTX 5080 is confirmed, it's closer to the 4080 Ti. Only this one had more memory... so in fact it's not even really "Ti". Which more than once had performance practically like the Titan.
Nvidia may have the fastest card, but more because AMD gave up fighting for the leadership and it gains growth mainly from DLSS, FG. While the performance increase might be acceptable for the 5090, it will probably be embarrassing for the 5080, it's a 4080 facelift, not a new series, there's nothing here that's worth $1000 outside of the MFG and those are FE MSRP prices anyway, there should be a refreshed XX80 worth, say $800. PC gamers may have cards in stores (that to be seen), but the prices are like from the cryptocurrency madness (2k$ for 5090 and AIB prices
).
2nd bad generation in a row from nvidia and there is no one that can even compete with them. Jaw dropping levels of incompetence from everyone else.
There is/was but not in RT.
If you didn't play just a few games that were worth turning on RT, then the 7900 were quite attractive cards. Especially since the launch price of the RTX 4080 is a bad joke. And even so, the performance of the RTX 4080 in 4K with RT without DLSS, FG was pathetic - 30 frames for $1200, so the 7900 for $1000 and 20 frames is not better.
However, this shows the hopelessness of the situation and the completely inadequate price of the cards or their performance to price (71% increase over the RTX 3080).
I totally get that but if AMD wanted to they could for sure kill the 5080 by just making a monolithic RDNA4 card the size of the 7900XTX and they aren't even that competent in my book...
I guarantee you AMD is kicking themselves right now.
AMD ? Home PC GPU ? For Gaming ? AI, AI, AI...