Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series has been a disastrous launch, with reports of defective units and barely any performance improvements plaguing the lineup. To make matters worse, these cards seem to be out of stock almost everywhere, thanks to suboptimal production and an unchecked scalper infestation.
It’s particularly bad for those opting to buy the latest and greatest, and the RTX 5090 situation has made would be buyers shy away from the product, and focus their investments elsewhere.
The shortage of Nvidia’s 5090 cards has made buyers purchase last-gen models
The shortage of RTX 5090s is quite understated, with almost no one being able to realistically get their hands on the card, resorting to scalping in the process.
Getting the 5090 was genuinely impossible so I used some of the money to upgrade everything else and keep my 4090
byu/HD4kAI innvidia
One such post on the r/Nvidia subreddit shows a PC enthusiast opting to keep their older RTX 4090 model as is, and instead focus on upgrading other components of their rig.
I used some of the money to upgrade everything else and keep my 4090
After all, the difference between the 4000 and 5000 series is pretty much insignificant once we remove all the fancy AI and image processing features, which puts the RTX 5090 on almost equal terms with the RTX 4090.
It’s not just OP though, multiple other users have complained on the general lack of RTX 5090 stock everywhere, which is despite the fact that an RTX 5070 is (allegedly) close to RTX 4090 levels of performance. Obviously, this is with DLSS 4 and multi-frame generation enabled.
If anything, OP is likely to have a dodged a bullet in the long run, given how 32-bit PhysX support was dropped starting from the RTX 5000 series, which means they cannot play older titles such as Batman: Arkham City and Mirrors Edge with PhysX enabled at its full capacity – which is curiousconsidering that this technology was developed with Nvidia cards in mind.
It should also be kept in mind here that a 4090 is by no means a slouch in any sense of the term – it is still an incredibly capable card, and perhaps second best when compared to the slightly more powerful (but a lot more expensive) 5090.
Purchasing a 5000 series card (especially this early) is not exactly a sound financial decision, and most would do well skipping the series entirely in favor of Intel’s Arc, AMD’s upcoming RX 9000 series – or even the RTX 4000 series.
The RTX 5000 series is painfully underwhelming
Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series has been a painful dumpster fire, with a supremely botched launch. Ranging from molten power connectors to reports of cards missing a few ROPs (thereby affecting its performance), the 5000 series has been ripe with controversy.
Nvidia’s so-called performance boost depends entirely on smoke and mirrors, aka, Frame Generation and DLSS 4 instead of actual horsepower. Even worse, the prices of these cards are ridiculously high, and with no real competition in the high-end GPU market, Nvidia is set to continue its monopoly and stagnate further.
There has however, been a lot of backlash against Nvidia recently, but its effects are not likely to manifest any time soon unless buyers vote with their wallets and stop giving into the need for purchasing a new GPU every generation.
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