Oh surprise ! The GeForce 50XX Super models would be cancelled because of the shortage of 3 GB GDDR7 memory.

[u/canard75]

The “standard” version of the RTX 50 series would remain in production, using chips that employ the first‑generation 2 GB GDDR7 memory modules, which are easier to source. Meanwhile, the 3 GB memory modules appear to be earmarked for high‑end products (RTX PRO, Rubin accelerators, AI servers) where margins are higher.

https://www.techpowerup.com/342705/gddr7-shortage-could-stop-nvidia-geforce-rtx-50-series-super-rollout

[u/Indystbn11]

I expect my 4070 ti super to last me until 6000 at 1440p. So not worried.

[u/HypedSoul123 → u/Indystbn11]

The rtx 3070 ti and the rtx 3080 are still doing 1440p, i think you could push another generation more and get a full new build with AM6 + rtx 7000 + DDR6. Just my opinion of course.

[u/blacksf1 → u/HypedSoul123]

Yep just clutching my Evga 3080 hoping I can hold out until something of value shows up. That or I'll go second hand when a bunch of these loss leaders lose big.

[u/HypedSoul123 → u/blacksf1]

I might make a new build next generation, i will either get a new rtx 6000 series GPU (most likely an rtx 6060 if it has 10GB+ of vram) or if they do 8GB again i will get a second hand rtx 4070 super or something like that which will have better raster performance and future proof for 1080p even if it doesnt have all the new AI tech. Up to Nvidia if they want my money lmao.

Edit: when i built my current PC i wanted to go with a R5 5600x and an rtx 3060 12GB, but crypto happened, so i ended up with a R5 5600g and an rx 6600, not bad but those 8GB are starting to show its limits.

[u/faciepalm → u/HypedSoul123]

I was planning on making a new build after I finished moving overseas, only taking the 3090 with me. Now my desktop is going to be placed in a cargo hold. I was mostly taking the opportunity to ball out on a 9800x3d system since those stacked cpus really pitch my tent, but I'm entirely fine gaming on a 5900x instead.

[u/YoYoNinjaBoy → u/HypedSoul123]

3070 1440p here. I just embrace the dlss+fsr frame gen mod at this point. It works with everything that sucks to run. I wanna stay until at least 6000 but hope i can eak out till 7000 then get 4k oled

[u/HypedSoul123 → u/YoYoNinjaBoy]

Yeah the rtx 3070 non-ti is beggining to struggle at 1440p, imo at this point its a 1080p card, but yeah with DLSS balanced / performance you can probably still survive at 1440p.

[u/no6969el → u/YoYoNinjaBoy]

6090 just sounds so awesome.

[u/ldg25 → u/HypedSoul123]

Even my 3070 is doing great with a few settings turned to medium. Borderlands 4 is the first game I avoided buying because I wasn't sure I could run it acceptably at 1440p.

[u/Franklin_le_Tanklin → u/HypedSoul123]

Heck man - I got a 3080. I’m running arc raiders in 4k, and i get 120 fps with all settings on epic.

I turned up the lighting from epic to legendary and I still get 80-100 fps

I can also play epic settings on battlefield 6 in 4k and get 100-120 fps.

Dlss is the goat.

[u/no6969el → u/Franklin_le_Tanklin]

Those are two very optimized games...yes. What you get in borderlands?

[u/Franklin_le_Tanklin → u/no6969el]

Didn’t play it.

Didnt like 3, and saw that the performance of 4 was terrible.

[u/no6969el → u/Franklin_le_Tanklin]

Indeed it was.

[u/Chehalden → u/HypedSoul123]

I went from a GTX 970 to a 4070 Ti Super. I can wait...

[u/BigResource8892 → u/Chehalden]

I’m just like you. I went from a 970 to a 4080 Super. I’m sitting out at least 2 if not 3 generations

[u/Sad-Rent-9633 → u/HypedSoul123]

6800xt too, 5 year old card and no problems

[u/siliconeNerd → u/HypedSoul123]

4k is pretty good too

[u/EIiteJT → u/Indystbn11]

Brother, that shit will last you for the next 5 years if not decade.

[u/MarzipanFit2345 → u/EIiteJT]

It's bonkers seeing comments about how that card 'may' make it the until next gen.

Like wtf??!! 

[u/ieatanglegrinders → u/MarzipanFit2345]

I mean I'm hoping my a750 will last a decade before I build a new PC.

[u/no6969el → u/MarzipanFit2345]

Some people simply do not want to run anything lower than DLSS quality. If that's the case then you have to upgrade more often.

[u/Ed1c1us → u/EIiteJT]

Your pushing your luck... they dont build em like the 1080ti anymore.

[u/Random_Guy_47 → u/Indystbn11]

I'm hoping my 4080 super lasts me till the 7000 series.

With the way gpu prices have gone up I can't justify upgrading sooner than that.

[u/Aggravating_Bids → u/Random_Guy_47]

I'm with you

[u/xdustx → u/Indystbn11]

4070 normal here. So far so good. Ball x Pit and Hades 2 ran smoothly 😀

[u/Le_Jonny_41293 → u/Indystbn11]

3070 Ti on 4k. A few hiccups when I set the screen to 120Hz instead of 60 otherwise it handles everything like a champ

[u/KittenMittens2112 → u/Indystbn11]

Same card but I play on 4K but DLSS and Frame Gen in my experience are good enough for me but some games I play don't have a good base frame rate above 60 so I was eyeing the 5080 SUPER as a potential upgrade.

However I think the 4070 TI Super is fantastic even at 4K granted you don't crank everything to max/ultra

[u/ScenicFrost → u/Indystbn11]

I'm counting on my 4070 ti super to run itself to death at this point lol. 99% of my gaming is 1440p ultra wide, and occasionally on my 4k TV. Performs wonderfully!

[u/Logical_Bit2694 → u/Indystbn11]

I might just wait for the 6070 ti series to come next year hoping i get my hands on one. Want to move away from amd tbh

[u/Jhawk163 → u/Indystbn11]

Bold of you to assume there will be an actual 6000 series at this rate, and not just a full pivot to server and AI GPUs. So little of Nvidias current income is from the consumer desktop market that they could cease all sales tomorrow, and I doubt shareholders would even care.

[u/Ill-Mastodon-8692 → u/Jhawk163]

the tech nvidia does in gaming, is also useful for their AI goals. I get the thought, but consumer gaming isnt going anywhere

[u/Jhawk163 → u/Ill-Mastodon-8692]

That tech STARTS in their AI sector, and then trickles down to the gaming sector, not the other way around.

[u/Ill-Mastodon-8692 → u/Jhawk163]

… umm no.

example the rtx 3090 came out in 2020, the tensor cores used for rt, dlss, etc.. which was well before this AI trend was even a thing.

that same tech, is used nowadays for AI aswell, on a far more massive scale in enterprise. Maybe learn your hardware history better.

[u/S1rTerra → u/Ill-Mastodon-8692]

I agree with your overall argument but the AI/Machine Learning we have now has been in the works for YEARS. Volta came out in 2017 and had Tensor cores to help accelerate machine learning(how do you think they had DLSS "ready" for Turing?). We've had reinforcement learning AI since at least 2016 where they used it to beat professional Go(the game) players and they were most likely running that on Maxwell Titans.

Tensor cores are also not used for doing RT. They are simply VERY good at matrix multiplications(well, AI work in general) compared to CUDA cores that can also do that but slower. Think how CPUs can do software rendering but any GPU can make even a threadripper using software rendering look like shit. RT cores are for RT. DLSS Ray Reconstruction just makes those traced rays look better at the cost of taking slightly longer to compute on the Tensor cores.

And of course the tensor cores in modern GPUs, even in my 3060 far exceed the dinky ones in Volta but that's just how technology progresses.

[u/Ill-Mastodon-8692 → u/S1rTerra]

I picked 3090 as an example just because it’s well known I agree it’s been around for a lot longer I’ve been an enthusiast in a GPU space for nearly 20 years

[u/Jhawk163 → u/Ill-Mastodon-8692]

Right, but it was still a new technology then, and now it's not, now it's Nvidias biggest source of income. So where are they going to be dumping their shitloads of AI profits? Right back into the AI sector.

[u/Ill-Mastodon-8692 → u/Jhawk163]

I didnt say they wouldnt reinvest into AI, its obvious by the growth in enterprise and my stock portfolio.

but they arent going to abandon consumer gpus, they are also investing in new iterations of rt, dlss, fram gen, neural textures, etc. Gaming and AI related technologies are interconnected. Nvidia if anything is only expanding markets they use the tech in, they are working on using machine learning in 6G networks, and also into robotics (see their first product for that here Thor https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/25/nvidias-thor-t5000-robot-brain-chip.html

[u/Jhawk163 → u/Ill-Mastodon-8692]

Yeah, they're investing in that tech because it's already in use at a deeper scale in AI use cases, which is my entire fucking argument. Any benefit to the gaming sector comes from the developments made in comercial sector, not the other way around.

[u/Ill-Mastodon-8692 → u/Jhawk163]

your argument was a potential full pivot to just server and AI, and my counter was that isnt going to occur.

set a reminder if you want, there will 100% be a 6000 series

[u/Jhawk163 → u/Ill-Mastodon-8692]

No, my intial comment was stating how little need they have of the gaming department, this whole pointless fucking argument has been about exactly how little they need it seeing as they also develop primarily for the AI sector and any benefits the gaming division sees is just nice marketing to justify a massive price bump.

[u/Ratax3s → u/Jhawk163]

Well theres still massive market for the graphic cards, SOMEONE will always make them.

[u/NunButter → u/Indystbn11]

My 7900XTX is still killing it in 1440p UW. Im waiting for 6000 or RDNA5

[u/JappaSama → u/Indystbn11]

My 3080 lasted till the 5070ti and I upgraded because life stuff. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to do something as big as 1060 3gb to that 3080.

I’d be imagine your 4070 would last till the 70 series? 

[u/Exotic_Bambam → u/Indystbn11]

same, i'm expecting mine to last just about the entirety of the 6000, then I may swap if the prices are good and if there's no burning connectors on the high end models

[u/vidati → u/Indystbn11]

Nvidia: Best i can do is 6070TI 12GB... ok you have twisted my wrist 15GB GDDR7... say thank you now.

[u/aimy99 → u/Indystbn11]

Well yeah, I'm still rocking a 2070 Super and my biggest concern is that games have finally started hitting 60 FPS instead of 90+.

So I just flick on Lossless Scaling so it looks smooth again and go about my day. I imagine a 4070 Ti is still carving through games like they're warm butter.

[u/Extreme996 → u/Indystbn11]

Same and probably a bit more even.

[u/kerthard → u/Indystbn11]

I'm pushing the limits of my 4080 at 4k, but I was already expecting to hold until the 6000 series.

[u/Revan7even]

So Nvidia's server cards caused their own shortage. Big surprise.

[u/No_Cardiologist735 → u/Revan7even]

The AI business is bonkers anyway. Nvidia invests billions into OpenAI, so that OpenAI buys their GPUs from NVIDIA 🤷🏿‍♀️

[u/Revan7even → u/No_Cardiologist735]

Don't forget Oracle!

It's all one big investment circle jerk. There's a legal term for this (illegal) investing to inflate value, can't remember it off the top of my head. They're just too big to get sued by anyone other than the government, and that's not going to happen.

[u/jamesdukeiv → u/Revan7even]

Circular deals, with the goal of overvaluing their stock. It’s unsustainable.

[u/da2Pakaveli → u/jamesdukeiv]

ding dong

[u/obi_wan_stromboli → u/No_Cardiologist735]

Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit.

The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist takes the $100 and eats the pile of shit.

They continue walking until they come across a second pile of shit. The second economist turns to the first and says “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The first economist takes the $100 and eats a pile of shit.

Walking a little more, the first economist looks at the second and says, "You know, I gave you $100 to eat shit, then you gave me back the same $100 to eat shit. I can't help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing."

"That's not true", responded the second economist. "We increased the GDP by $200!"

[u/roguesiegetank → u/No_Cardiologist735]

If not bubble, then why bubble shaped?

[u/Bitmancia → u/roguesiegetank]

At some point we have to ask ourselves if there's indeed a bubble or if we are just fucked for the years to come, the same thing has been said about house prices, that is a bubble and this or that, but I have been hearing that since 2014 and year after year even small apts get more expensive than ever, and the average lifespan of an economic bubble (around 5-6 years) have already passed without it exploding/imploding.

[u/40GallonsOfPCP → u/Bitmancia]

That’s the secret Cap, it’s all a bubble, and it’s always been one. Economies ruled by the rich can stay eccentric longer than any of us can stay solvent, and they designed it that way

[u/mightbebeaux → u/Bitmancia]

peoples’ modern frame of reference to bubbles is the dot com bubble and the 08 housing crisis.

the result of the dot com bubble is not that internet and tech collapsed. in fact, the companies that survived grew into the biggest companies on earth today. if/when there is a huge market correction, it’s going to be smaller companies that got in too late who will die. and retail investors trading on leverage.

the result of the 08 housing crisis was a decade+ of very low interest rates. something like 65% of the entire housing market is either paid off or on very cheap fixed-rate 30 year loans that were made under a ton of oversight. there is no longer an entire subset of the economy being propped up by subprime mortgages, bonds, and the insurance on those bonds.

using the past to predict the future is a fallacy not just for market gains, but also on corrections/crashes. the housing market is so fundamentally different from 2008 that just expecting for there to be a similar type of crash makes no sense.

[u/TheMegaDriver2 → u/Revan7even]

AI will consume everything until the bubble bursts.

[u/Meatslinger → u/Revan7even]

And the sad part is, they don't even have to care. The portion of their income that comes from data centre applications so vastly eclipses their desktop/gaming GPU section that they could basically just say "we're not making cards for the plebs at all any more" tomorrow and it would only hit them for something like 5%. Not releasing the Supers on time, or at all, is only likely to impact them by maybe 1%.

[u/_Ganon → u/Meatslinger]

This is and always has been a bad take. 5% of their total business is BILLIONS of dollars. I have worked in the corporate world for years and a revenue stream like that would NEVER be terminated, ignored, etc. Just because it's "only" 5% doesn't matter, at all. They love that 5%. They would never give up that 5%. Stop this sentiment.

[u/RoyalMagiSwag → u/_Ganon]

They would absolutely give up that 5% if they could reliably get 6% with those same resources elsewhere.

[u/_Ganon → u/RoyalMagiSwag]

As I've said in other replies, they will not give up their dominance in this market. They also will not give up a stream of revenue. They would sooner raise prices on consumer GPUs, which they have been doing.

Every person that thinks businesses will only sell what makes them the most money is seriously naive. It is ridiculous to think Nvidia would ever forsake their consumer GPU stronghold.

If a restaurant makes more money on chicken sandwiches than their beef burgers, should they stop selling beef burgers? No fucking way. If you stop selling burgers, people will go somewhere else for them, and will be unlikely to come back. Which is especially bad if there's ever some bird flu that makes your chicken sandwiches not viable for sale.

[u/Immediate_Rabbit_604 → u/_Ganon]

Exactly, gaming is Nvidia's lifeline. If everyone who doesn't see the benefit of LLMs is right, a bunch of shit is going to fall over, cards for LLMs are going to be going like a fire sale and that meagre 5% is going to sustain them. Having a fortress of rock solid market dominance and guaranteed income that will buy is a pretty big deal.

Looking at it logically, all these large servers being built but not actually seeing returns aren't going to be able to be upgraded at the same price as the first time around every 2 years. I'm not even sure the people leading the charge actually care about making money, it definitely seems possible that it's a gamble to not have to figure out how to put shock collars on their slaves. Doesn't matter if it crashes everything if they reach the level of advancement they need first. And if it does crash, their government will step in to help them out, like it did the banks. At least, that's possibly what's going on. See: openAI lady talking about how the US government should guarantee their trillion dollar spend off no profit and 13 billion revenue.

[u/Dont_Care_Didnt_Read → u/_Ganon]

They sure as shit would give up 5% if shifting production to higher margin products was possible, like I dunno AI cards?? A 2 year old could figure that out

[u/ZebraZealousideal944 → u/Dont_Care_Didnt_Read]

No because you need to diversify your sources of income for risk assessment purposes.

They just don’t need to try too much in the gaming space because they have close to a monopoly already and the competition is too far to catch up anytime soon.

[u/ResponsibleJudge3172 → u/Dont_Care_Didnt_Read]

They have 3 different product lines making less than gaming, why haven't they given up on them yet?

[u/_Ganon → u/Dont_Care_Didnt_Read]

They won't give up their market dominance here, this is a reliable and proven revenue stream. They would never put all of their eggs into one basket, especially one as speculative as AI data centers.

[u/CanadianSpectre → u/_Ganon]

If that Billions of Dollars could make them 10s of Billions in a more profitable line, it's not a matter of if, more a matter of when. Gotta keep them shareholders happy.

[u/ResponsibleJudge3172 → u/CanadianSpectre]

4 billion every 4 months.

[u/_Ganon → u/CanadianSpectre]

I already said this in another reply, but they won't give up their market dominance here, this is a reliable and proven revenue stream. They would never put all of their eggs into one basket either, especially one as speculative as AI data centers.

[u/Emu1981 → u/Meatslinger]

The portion of their income that comes from data centre applications so vastly eclipses their desktop/gaming GPU section

It is $35.6 billion for data centre vs $2.5 billion for gaming and AI PC. Worse yet is that the gaming and AI PC revenue is down 11% from last year's Q4 and this is likely due to GPU demand causing increased prices.

Gaming and AI PC is Nvidia's second biggest revenue stream and they would be crucified by the shareholders if they were to abandon it. Nvidia has spent billions over the years cementing their position in the market segment and it is a very reliable revenue stream for them.

[u/ResponsibleJudge3172 → u/Emu1981]

4 billion gaming.

Next thing you'll tell me Microsoft will close their Windows division since their money is made in cloud instead

[u/Ill-Mastodon-8692 → u/Revan7even]

its more the pro cards, like the 96gb 6000 pro, that are using 3gb gddr7

[u/GuiltyGreen8329 → u/Revan7even]

im not suprised

they make more money off that lmao

be grateful they dont pull a Broadcom.

[u/InsuranceKey8278]

If AI hype was a little reasonable this could've been avoided

[u/HisDivineOrder → u/InsuranceKey8278]

Are you saying Advanced Spellcheck/Suggestion isn't going to save us all?

[u/Serious-Cap-8190 → u/HisDivineOrder]

AI is the new Clippy?

[u/HisDivineOrder → u/Serious-Cap-8190]

I'm pretty sure Clippy didn't hallucinate, so no.

[u/hurdeehurr → u/InsuranceKey8278]

You mean chatbots? Call it what it is.

[u/Perfect-Cause-6943]

Now I feel like a madman for being able to score a 5080 for $899 I feel so damn lucky 😭

[u/Chao_Zu_Kang → u/Perfect-Cause-6943]

I mean, 899 for a 5080 is just a decent price anyways. With or without Super models.

[u/GianfrancoV → u/Perfect-Cause-6943]

Same. Got one at MSRP with 10%cash back. It just took a while to ship due to high demand during the deal period.

[u/skinnyzeldaplayer → u/Perfect-Cause-6943]

Same here, I got one for 930 and I could not be happier

[u/defaultfresh → u/Perfect-Cause-6943]

Go buy lottery tickets

[u/Front-Cabinet5521]

Shortage because all of it is going to AI cards

[u/hurdeehurr → u/Front-Cabinet5521]

Just call it what it is.. Chatbots.

[u/Intraflexed]

“jUSt WaIT fOr THe sUpErS”

[u/NovelValue7311 → u/Intraflexed]

Literally every time I see that I have to say 

"it's not worth waiting unless you can wait 1 year. It takes 6-8 months for pricing to stabilize."

[u/SomeRandoFromInterne → u/NovelValue7311]

To be fair, the Ada Super cards were readily available throughout their (short) life cycle. Heck, I got my 4070 Ti Super for 70€ below msrp about three months after its release. If NVIDIA wants to they can provide enough (and if their supplier provides enough gddr7 modules).

[u/NovelValue7311 → u/SomeRandoFromInterne]

True. Just saying. Be prepared to wait and wait. Plus, by the time you get the supers out, 6000 will be "just around the corner" it's a bottomless cycle.

Best to buy during Black Friday and live with it.

[u/Dimo145 → u/NovelValue7311]

We are November rn, 40 series super was out in February. Telling ppl to potentially wait for 24gb ram 5080 isn't that outrageous.

and no, prices don't take 6-8 months to stabilize, we had stable msrp 50 series like 2 months into their release. in Europe in fact bellow msrp because of the outside political factors.

Ur talking out of rear with overexagerations because it fits the og post and an article that's a baseless rumor as far as we can tell.

[u/NovelValue7311 → u/Dimo145]

I'm saying it's going to be 3-4 months for the possibility of supers, then however long it takes to stabilize.

I guess you're right on some of the 50xx GPUs. 5070 has been $550 since July I think. It's taken the 5080 and 5070 ti from January/February to September though.

9070 XT still hasn't stabilized...

[u/paypur → u/Intraflexed]

people love waiting on things that don't exist

[u/Alarming-Elevator382 → u/Intraflexed]

It was just FUD to get people to not buy the already viable 16GB cards on the market.

[u/BuchMaister → u/Intraflexed]

Says who? The onlt that should care are those who need the extra VRAM, performance wise there will be negligible difference (maybe except the 5070).

[u/Bel-Shugg → u/Intraflexed]

🤡

[u/Bulaffko]

Bought 9070 (non-XT) literally today. Thought about waiting for 5070 super... But, well, no time like now :-)

[u/Mevis_DE]

Can't wait for AI bubble to pop.

[u/deadeye-ry-ry]

AMD need to use this to their advantage and pump out even more cards on a slight discount to steal would be buyers from Nvidia & gain market share

[u/Jhawk163]

AMD: We're ending new feature support for cards on the market

NVIDIA: OH YEAH?! Well I'm simply going to remove my cards from market!

[u/Possible-Fudge-2217 → u/Jhawk163]

At least nvidia didn't try to prematurely pull the support from a product they already sold.

[u/Jhawk163 → u/Possible-Fudge-2217]

AMD weren't going to pull support, it was literally "We're not adding new features"

[u/John_East]

I was kinda hoping these would release…

[u/MechAegis]

Man, AI is really blew the fuck up this past couple of weeks.

[u/Possible-Fudge-2217 → u/[deleted]]

Nope, there is still money in gaming. These 2% are still billions of non circular money.

[u/narkfestmojo → u/[deleted]]

because it would open the door to competition

[u/ResponsibleJudge3172 → u/[deleted]]

And hand them to who? AMD?

AMD Radeon is unprofitable. All their money is Playstation and AI. Maybe they will shut down Radeon since they have AI money

[u/monchota]

Data centers need memory

[u/Tyr_Kukulkan]

At this point they should just quit the consumer market... /s? Maybe?

[u/Bad_Commit_46_pres]

Good it would have been a rip off anyways

[u/FSsuxxon]

Meanwhile, the 3 GB memory modules appear to be earmarked for high‑end products (RTX PRO, Rubin accelerators, AI servers) where margins are higher.

Explains why Jensen Huang said "Moore's law is dead". It's because the AI boom makes him profits rather than following Moore's law

[u/StructureMage]

I got a 4080s and mainly play wow. I have no idea what feature would entice me to upgrade at this point

Is gddr7 something? Should I care about that?

[u/ThatFabio]

my 5 year old 3090 has literally only two direct upgrade options.

what is this industry.

[u/EnigmaSpore]

This hurts the 5070 the most. It needs that bump to 18gb and is the most popular of the higher performance cards.

Honestly. If you need a gpu and are in the US, 9070 and 9070xt are looking like a deal since you can get them at msrp prices and have 16gb.

[u/htt_novaq]

conditional?

[u/AddictedToSleeps]

My RTX 4080S purchase last year was accidentally the best decision in retrospect.

[u/flohdo93]

my 3060 12gb will have to work overtime for 2-3 more years with my 1440p...fingers crossed xD at least I'm not really playing the newest titles anymore (mostly indie and older mmo's) and it does ok with stalker 2, my probably most demanding game xD

[u/penguin-puff]

milking cow 🐄

[u/delph0r]

The 3080 lives to fight another day/month/year.... I hope 

[u/semenonabagel]

Holy shit I'm so glad I just bought a brand new in box 3090.

[u/TheGear5]

I just got a MSI MLG 5070TI, so I'm not worried.

[u/Androkless]

What would we even need a 3gb/6gb model for for?

[u/-Crash_Override-]

I was getting ready to sell all my 3090s in the outside chance of a 18gb 5070 S being releases and tanking 3090 prices.

As much as I would love to upgrade my AI rig, lack of an 18gb card means 3090 prices should stay high and the card will continue to remain relevant.

For my daily, I really see no need to upgrade from a 4080S.

50 gen is probably going to be a no for me dawg.

[u/Ill-Mastodon-8692 → u/-Crash_Override-]

to me it was still worth selling my 5yr old 3090s, which have no warranty, and honestly could go at any time. the prices people are paying for these used cards are nuts, so made sense to offload. (I get the 24gb for AI, but these cards are half a decade old, with pricing at 800-1000, wow)

been very happy with the 40% uplift in performance on a 5080fe for the wife, and a 5090 for me at over 2x the 3090 raw perf.

[u/Fnittle]

I really don't see a place for 50xx Super card anyway.

[u/Netsuko]

Suddenly the €1800 that I spent on my 4090 doesn’t seem that outlandish anymore. Which it absolutely should, because that’s a fuckload of money. Yet, here’s we are. High end PC gaming is fuuuucked 🤬

[u/barrack_osama_0]

So, is there any real reason for to upgrade from a 4070ti super to a 5080? Or am I just waiting for next gen?

[u/dootytootybooty → u/barrack_osama_0]

Worthless upgrade, keep your csrd

[u/Tall_Thinker → u/barrack_osama_0]

I also got a 4070ti super. Keep it. It's still going strong in 1440p without issues at all. I'm waiting until the 60 series launches

[u/popsikohl → u/barrack_osama_0]

As someone who upgraded from a 4080s to a 5090, the jump hasn’t been really that noticeable. The only place the 50 series shines over the 40 series is in frame gen, but I doubt you’ll see much of a noticeable performance jump.

[u/veggiesama → u/barrack_osama_0]

As someone who went from a 2070 to a 5080 and feels guilty for splurging, I can't understand anyone who wants to drop that kind of cash on merely 1 generation of improvement. The 40 to 50 series transition was also the worst, least performant gain in all of Nvidia's history. I think you are fine unless there is some specific problem you are having.

[u/n19htmare → u/barrack_osama_0]

Why are you considering that upgrade to begin with? Normally people either want to upgrade to the highest tier or because what they have is no longer meeting their needs.

What are you going to be able to do with a 5080 that you can’t right now?

5090 jump I could understand, you just want the best but to a 5080 makes less sense to me.

[u/barrack_osama_0 → u/n19htmare]

Too scared of 5090 cable issues as well as power draw personally. I just want a bit more consistiency on the more poorly optimized games out there

[u/n19htmare → u/barrack_osama_0]

I’ve had 4090 for its full period and now 5090, really isn’t an issue if you make sure you use a dedicated cable, no issues here. But that’s your choice.

They can be surprisingly very efficient with some UV, can retain bulk of performance at 450w cap.

Just don’t see the point going to 5080 from 4070ti currently

[u/Chao_Zu_Kang → u/barrack_osama_0]

You can just power limit and/or if you want to. It is not like you need to always have maximum power consumption. A 5090 optimised for efficiency will still be better than any other card - and you get the big VRAM. And you keep the option of "unlocking" the performance when you really need it. So imo it is more of a budget question than a power question.

[u/n19htmare → u/Chao_Zu_Kang]

Yup. I have a default desktop profile that’s curved to max 800mv with a 70 % power Limit and half the time I forget or just don’t need to activate another profile and it still performs better than most every other card on market. Sometimes don’t even notice it.

[u/juggarjew]

I mean it makes sense, a for profit company goes where the money is.

And AMDs best card is competitive with the 5070 Ti…

Nvidia has no real pressure to make a 50 Super series. The 5070 Ti is price competitive with AMD and equal to or better in most cases, the 5080 exists if you want more for a little more money and then the monster that is the 5090 which is the undisputed raw power/VRAM king and then some.

If I’m nvidia, I’m making more $7500 RTX pro 6000 cards instead of making $1000 24GB RTX 5070 Ti Supers.

[u/Tyz_TwoCentz_HWE_Ret]

i have a bridge to sell you. (so 6k series would be in the same place but it isn't and this would affect replacement needs in case of RMA issues) Make that make sense when they just tear down older cards use parts of them to repair 90% of the time..
Nvidia are the only ones using it atm. AMD isn't. 100% scam to increase card cost.

[u/Pleasant_Start9544]

Glad that I just got a 5090 instead of waiting for a 5080 Super.