Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs

Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by alyandon on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @02:58PM (#42626688)

I'm generally a 1080p@60hz gamer and my 3060 Ti is overpowered for a lot of the games I play. However, there are an increasing number of titles being released over the past couple of years where even on medium settings the card struggles to keep a consistent 60 fps frame rate.

I've wanted to upgrade but overall I'm more concerned about power consumption than raw total performance and each successive generation of GPUs from nVidia seems to be going the wrong direction.

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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by epolanski on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @06:21PM (#42628944)

I think you can get a 5060 and simply down volt it some, you'll get more or less the same performance while reducing power draw sensibly.

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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by alyandon on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @12:17PM (#42636312)

That's probably not going to be an option for me as I wanted to upgrade to something with 16 GB of vram. I do toy with running LLM inference and squeezing models to fit in 8 GB vram is painful. Since the 5070 non-ti has 12 GB of vram there is no hope that a 5060 would have more vram than that. So, at a minimum I'm stuck with the prospect of upgrading to a 5070 ti.

That's not the end of the world for me if I move to a 5070 ti and you are quite correct that I can downclock/undervolt to keep a handle on power consumption. The price makes it a bit of a hard pill to swallow though.

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