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My frustrations with the 50-series

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I was eagerly awaiting the reviews and considered upgrading to a 5070ti, but as it sits now I consider keeping my 4070 or maybe even going the 9070-route. The 50-series felt like my wife finally agreeing to that threesome and she invites a dude so we both get screwed.

My history of Nvidia-releases and improvements vs last gen:
10xx: greatly improved efficiency and performance at good prices vs 9xx. Good value at msrp.
20xx: -slightly better perf due to a bit better node and gddr6, dlss and rt that proved great after a few years, but terrible pricehike
30xx: better perf due to better node, good pricing except for 3090 and scaling the first months due to mining. Good value for money at msrp.
40xx: greatly improved efficiency and perf, but steep price hike
50xx: no improvement to efficiency, performance a bit better only due to gddr7 and higher powerlimits. Poor availability, issues with missing rops, not enough gddr7 available for high enough production etc.

I hope 9070 is a success so Nvidia steps up their game next gen. I wish team green had waited for 3N node. I would rather pay more for a vast improvement than a bit more for barely no improvement.
 
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The 50-series felt like my wife finally agreeing to that threesome and she invites a dude so we both get screwed.
Maybe a tad overdramatic, no? I am sure your wife wouldn’t appreciate being equated to a GPU generation either.

But if we really wanna go down the road of questionable metaphors, well, several generations of NV cards over the last 5-7 years have been Jensen absolutely plowing the hot model that is the datacenter and HPC compute market while the gaming consumer gets to sit in the cuck chair. Needs workshopping maybe, but eh.

Anyway, fuck new games and GPUs I say, if we never evolved past the golden age of PC gaming that was the late 90-s and early 00-s we would be better off nowadays anyway. Just play HoMM 3 and UT2004 brah is what I am saying.
 
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I felt 10xx was a good gen, 20xx was poor due to huge price bumps and that RT was probably beta experience, 30xx had somewhat more sensible pricing although not as good as historical levels and suffered from gouging of non FE sku's, 30xx also was really shown up for poor VRAM capacity, 40xx somewhat better on efficiency and not quite as bad on VRAM at least on xx80 SKU, but higher MSRP vs 30xx, 50xx at this point I cannot remember such a bad launch for Nvidia, OP also missed the physx downgrade as well.
 
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I was thinking 5080. Looked at price performance ratio. Now thinking 5070. If 5070 also fails, I may look 9070 or 5060 ti. I wish 5070 doesnt miss rops, and doesnt burn connector.
 
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the improve comes in the form of dlss, framegen and rtx5090... as far as i can see
the other skus not so much
 
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the improve comes in the form of dlss, framegen and rtx5090... as far as i can see
the other skus not so much
Add oc potential. 2500 to 3000.
 
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