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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/SinisterSh0t on 2025-01-29 19:01:32+00:00.

[My Personal Opinion, it’s fine if you disagree]

I recall the disappointment of the 40 series for it’s sheer cost coming out of the Pandemic. But at least the hardware had actually evolved with that generation, it wasn’t as big of a jump in performance as 30 series but it was a good leap forward, it’s just it’s high costs holding it back. [Also lack of Display Port 2.0 or 2.1, Only 1.4]

But I think I’m more disappointed with the 50 Series, It reminds me a little of intels 14nm issue, while stuck on that process pushed core count and transistor density up at the cost of high energy usage & rising heat.

While Nvidia isn’t stuck like intel we are on the same nm process as Ada Lovelace, and while they have evolved their RT and Tensor Cores to 4th and 5th Generation, they’ve done nothing to actually improve the Cuda Cores in performance per core nor efficiency for 50 series, so they just try to stuff more instead.

But More doesn’t mean better, and you can see that with the Reviews coming in for the 5080. It’s like a 10-15% Improvement over the 4080 and I’m guessing less with the 4080 Super. So we end up with just a GPU Generation of lackluster technological performance but Impressive [alas flawed] software & AI performance at the cost of a much higher power draw and about 10*C increase in Temps.

I was actually considering to upgrade after seeing the Reviews of the 5090 and so was looking forward to seeing what the 5080 Could offer… but if that’s all it can do then the 5070’s and 60’s are gonna be rough, Since latency of Multi Frame Gen is tied to the Original Real Frame Created any of the latest games on the 70 or 60 lineup running at about 30-50 FPS is gonna feel so gross when wacked up to 100+ by MFG.

I will just wait to see what the next 2-3 Years will bring. AMD and Intel hopefully can take advantage during that time and launch some impressive cards maybe.

At the very least I’m now gonna wait to see what the 60 Series looks like as by then it will be on a smaller process with the hope that those cards won’t be as power hungry as the 50 Series, nor as lackluster in Raw Performance. [And we’ll just see what they’ve done to Improve DLSS and MFG as well.]