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Daily News Stuff 30 January 2025

Big Steps And Little Ones Edition

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  • Nvidia's RTX 5080 is here and while it is tempting to blame it for the company's $600 billion share price free fall that was probably just a jumpy and irrational stock market and not directly related to the profound ordinariness of this card.  (Tom's Hardware)

    It's slightly faster than last year's 4080 Super, which was slightly faster than the previous year's 4080.

    It does best at 4K resolutions, where it's 9% faster, probably thanks to the much faster GDDR7 memory.  At lower resolutions where memory bandwidth doesn't matter so much, performance gains average just 3%.

    And with average gains that low, yes, it is sometimes slower than the previous model.  I'm not sure how, because by all the numbers it should be at least a little better.

    All the benchmarks seem to pit it against AMD's 7900 XTX, which comes out looking pretty good aside from ray tracing, since it is cheaper, includes 24GB of RAM compared to the 5080's 16GB, and is just as fast for anything except ray tracing.

    This review bizarrely suggests skipping the 5080 for the 5090, which delivers 50% better performance for twice the price.  Yes, if a $1000 video card isn't fast enough to justify the price, you should spend twice as much for something that is even worse value.

    We're going to see a repeat of this next month when the cheaper models - the 5070 Ti and 5070 - arrive.  In March we might see something interesting as AMD's new cards launch.

    But probably not.


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Disclaimer: Let me explain.  No, there is too much.  Let me sum up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:29 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 Sum up? Why not do what all the stateside weather lemmings do now: 'Time it out' for us.

Posted by: Joe Redfield at Friday, January 31 2025 04:25 AM (KOtXO)

2 Just a reminder that when the RTX 2000 series came out, Tom's Hardware put out an article saying "meh, it's not really great.  Just buy it anyway."

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, January 31 2025 07:27 AM (NYS94)

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