5080 Launch! Review from L1

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Going to be any Linux review? Are any of these fancy features even going to be available?

If “no” on the features, this thing is a pretty much worthless iteration…

For the price this feels very underwhelming and is not giving me much hope that the 70 or even 60 class will be worth it.

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This feels like the 70 class

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ik, I was kinda looking toward getting a 5070 Ti, but very unlikely that’s going to happen now. Probably just going to grab a 7900XTX

soon as we got drivers …

This is also in regards to the 5090 review: I’ve seen multiple outlets try to run the cards with PCIe 3.0 x16 and 4.0 x16 with little loss in gaming performance. I couldn’t find anyone trying x8 or even x4.
Knowing that some AI workflows will utilize more PCIe bandwidth than gaming, maybe test there if using only a 5.0 x8 would harm performance, would it be equal to 4.0 x16? Would it be much worse because less parallelism?

Also: Did you notice anything like der8auer noticed with his 5080 having PCIe 5.0 issues?

So, is this good for G/gamers because I’ll be honest, by the end of the review I had no idea. It seems to be meh for actual hardware performance but the AI stuff makes it look really good. And the AI can be good but also not?

This generation is confusing and I have a feeling it’s not going to get any less so as the other models release or even in future generations.

What I got from the review in regards to this is: The capital G “gamers” will not like this gen because it is not pure generated frames. The lowercase g “gamers” will be happy with the larger number, if they pay attention to it, but they will not like the lag that is associated with the multi frame generation. And the AI capabilities can be very good depending on your use case.

And I think you are exactly right that it will get very confusing going forward. There will be less ways to get accurate apples to apples comparisons due to the up-scaling tech that the different companies use.

Getting kind of tired with “junkware” versions of cards being released first only to wait for the Supers to launch with enough silicon to somewhat justify their existence at their given price brackets.

Well, that sans the 5090, but it’s MIA.

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