A couple of Nvidia RTX 5090 reviews

Marcus Vinicus · Jan 29, 2025

@bobkn

It comes down to what it is the primary use for a GPU. Unfortunately, there isn't always enough emphasis in reviews on non-games performance of GPU's.

PerpetualCycle · Jan 30, 2025

BrianInEngland said:
Nice how a review shows people how to dismantle their new £2000+ GPUs - why would anyone need or want to do that?!

Reapplying paste or replacing with a thermal pad. Often the factory application is not good and the hot spot temperature is very high. Plus the paste gets pumped out and dries up over time becoming less effective. Replace broken fans, replace fan cooling with liquid cooling...

BrianInEngland · Jan 30, 2025

PerpetualCycle said:
Reapplying paste or replacing with a thermal pad. Often the factory application is not good and the hot spot temperature is very high. Plus the paste gets pumped out and dries up over time becoming less effective. Replace broken fans, replace fan cooling with liquid cooling...

Most of that would be covered by warranty, at least in the UK. No warranty if it's been dismantled though!

PerpetualCycle · Jan 30, 2025

BrianInEngland said:
Most of that would be covered by warranty, at least in the UK. No warranty if it's been dismantled though!

A lot of what I mentioned are performance tweaks not covered under warranty. Also, my warranty is only 3 years past the date it was manufactured (not purchased). I keep my graphics card longer than that, so I appreciate having that information available, but I have yet to disassemble one.

My hot spot on my 4070Ti is very high,. I am confident that the manufacturer will not consider that a manufacturing defect and deny the warranty claim. I plan to fix that sometime. Just looked. Playing guardians of the galaxy my GPU temperature is 75c while the hottest spot on the GPU is 103C.

If you redo the paste without damaging the system, warranty is usually still covered (though Asus usually finds some scuff they call user damage to decline the warranty no matter what the claim). I would never send an Asus card in for warranty myself.

In addition, I think the limited warranties do not include replacing thermal paste.

Wolfzz · Jan 30, 2025

I would have to sell one of my kidney's to buy one of these down under in Australia

RTX50 Series

PLE Computers Australia - Perth and Melbourne - Delivery Australia Wide

www.ple.com.au

bobkn · Jan 30, 2025

Wolfzz said:
I would have to sell one of my kidney's to buy one of these down under in Australia

RTX50 Series

PLE Computers Australia - Perth and Melbourne - Delivery Australia Wide

www.ple.com.au

According to an online exchange rate calculator, 1AUD = 0.623USD.

I don't know whether the listed prices include the 10% GST (= VAT, national sales tax).

Given the limited availability of 5090s today, your kidney might be safe for a few months.

p5200 · Jan 30, 2025

Marcus Vinicus said:
Two reliable sources of independent hardware reviews have posted their findings on the new Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU's

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Content Creation Review

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 is the most powerful consumer GPU in the world. How does it perform in content creation applications?

www.pugetsystems.com

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review - The New Flagship

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 is the fastest graphics card ever released. It comes with a whopping 32 GB VRAM, and support for multi-frame generation, which achieves hundreds of FPS easily. We also managed to disassemble the card, and our review includes performance testing without upscaling or...

www.techpowerup.com

Anyone here at Elevenforum got long enough pockets to buy one of these beasts?

No, but those are not the things I have that are not long!

Marcus Vinicus · Jan 30, 2025

One of the leading electronics retailers here in New Zealand has listed the RTX 5080 and 5090 GPU's. Of course they don't have any stock. The prices are in New Zealand $'s and are crazy.

A couple of examples:
1. Gigabyte Aorus Master RTX 5090 $NZ5599
2. ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5080 $3299.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Graphics Cards at PB Tech - PBTech.co.nz

Shop the latest deals on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Graphics Cards from top brands ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, GALAX, PNY and more at PBTech.co.nz

www.pbtech.co.nz

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Graphics Cards at PB Tech - PBTech.co.nz

Shop the latest deals on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Graphics Cards from top brands ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, GALAX, PNY and more at PBTech.co.nz

www.pbtech.co.nz

I assume in Australia they'll be similar prices allowing for the difference in the exchange rate between AUS and NZ?

BamaInArk · Feb 9, 2025

And now burning up plugs continues......

bobkn · Feb 9, 2025

BamaInArk said:
And now burning up plugs continues......

snip

Speaking of burning the candle at both ends...

https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-5090-founders-edition-card-suffers-melted-connector-after-user-uses-third-party-cable

I've not previously seen mention of connectors smoking at both ends of a 12VHPWR (or its newer variant).

Tester · Feb 9, 2025

Lucky there are some repair shops that can fix those boards: northwestrepair

retiredat44 · Feb 9, 2025

I am really PO'd! I did a massive upgrade, not long ago, in anticipation of a new video card.... everything is ready for a new fast card, then they bungled the release and left me with a very fast computer and a crappy old video card (new CPU, memory, motherboard, powersupply).. just pissed.. hope Nvidia and al the stores are investigated for this fiasco.

Marcus Vinicus · Feb 9, 2025

retiredat44 said:
I am really PO'd! I did a massive upgrade, not long ago, in anticipation of a new video card.... everything is ready for a new fast card, then they bungled the release and left me with a very fast computer and a crappy old video card (new CPU, memory, motherboard, powersupply).. just pissed.. hope Nvidia and al the stores are investigated for this fiasco.

No one can tell me that well in advance of the official release of the RTX 5000 series GPU's that Nvidia DIDN"T know there were supply issues brewing. Took the consumers for fools.

bobkn · Feb 9, 2025

retiredat44 said:
(snip)
hope Nvidia and al the stores are investigated for this fiasco.

By whom? Are you going to dial 911?

This isn't in support of nVidia. Paper launches are very undesirable. But I don't recall a company having been sued successfully over one.

I did get a check from the GTX 970 class action lawsuit, years ago. I wonder how much money the attorneys made off that one?

dacrone · Feb 11, 2025

NVIDIA 5080
.https://www.ebay.com/itm/256812749064

MSI 5090
.www.ebay.com/itm/405532036743

$2000 and it’ll burn your house down!

NVIDIA's RTX 5090 Power Cables Are Melting

No one could've seen this coming. No one, I tell you.

www.howtogeek.com

SlicEnDicE · Feb 15, 2025

The RTX5090 will be crazy fast for compute because it has much faster and much more RAM than prev. gen. Also it has plenty of more CUDA cores to work with.

SlicEnDicE · Feb 15, 2025

The nVidia provided 12VHPWR (H+) / 12V-2x6 (H++) cable adapter has a too small safety factor for its rated power. Only 1.1x. should be closer to 2 in order to be considered safe. Also the connector needs better design, so it can't be inserted wrongly or with loose connections in either ends. Same goes for these beefy PSUs (1200W+)

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