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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by kcb on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @08:58AM (#42622335)
In all those historical cases the second tier card was a cut down version of the top tier one. Now the 4080 and 5080 are a different chip and there's a gulf of a performance gap between them and the top tier. That's the issue I am highlighting, the 5080 is half a 5090, in the past a 3080 was only 10% off a 3090 performance wise.
Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by ryao on Saturday January 11, 2025 @07:11AM (#42665348)
It was not actually. The last time this was the case was Maxwell:

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gm200.g772

Beginning with Pascal, Nvidia’s top GPU was not available in consumer graphics cards:

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gp100.g792

Turing was a bit weird since instead of having a TU100, they instead had Volta’s GV100:

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-tu102.g813

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gv100.g809

Then there is Ampere’s GA100 that never was used in a consumer graphics card:

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-ga100.g931

Ada was again weird as instead of a AD100, it had the GH100:

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-ad102.g1005

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gh100.g1011

Now with Blackwell the GB100 is the high end one that is not going into consumer cards. The 5090 gets GB202 and the 5080 gets GB203.

Rather than the 40 series and 50 series putting the #2 GPU die into the #2 consumer card, they are putting the #3 GPU die into the #2 consumer card.

Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by kcb on Monday January 13, 2025 @06:48PM (#42691186)
This is not relevant to what is being discussed. I clearly mean top tier consumer GPU.

3080/3090 - Same die

2080 ti/Titan RTX - Same die

1080 ti/Titan Xp - Same die

980 ti/Titan X - Same die

780/Titan - Same die

670/680 - Same die

570/580 - Same die

470/480 - Same die