"AI" chips are limited by HBM and advanced packaging, not N4 process wafers - 50 series are totally incremental to that effort, fact selling 90 series for 2-3 times more requires it to be made in the first place and rebranded as pro card - where are those? Zero announcements.
i wonder what the issue is? Yields?
Haha, what? You think the abysmal reviews of the 5xxx paper launch were a good showing?And unlike AMD, Nvidia knows full well the importance of release day reviews (which is probably what 90% of GPU buyers read/see).
Yes, those don't - but if they make those lower tier "AI" cards then they will have bin rejects that can be sold as 5090 and still make hefty profit.These don't use HBM
Or they sent them too late because they did not want "partners" to know how poor Blackwell is.Nvidia sent them the chips way too late.
In hindsight this would make sense, especially as Jensen was a notable absence at the presidential inauguration.This last decision might have been pressured by the tariffs on China. Had the cards been announced in late March then perhaps Jensen couldn't have announced a $1000 MSRP for the 5080 and $2000 for the 5090. And unlike AMD, Nvidia knows full well the importance of release day reviews (which is probably what 90% of GPU buyers read/see).
This last decision might have been pressured by the tariffs on China.
She can never leave that building like I can never leave these forumsBut only AMD have bad driver (c)
Take a look at launch driver known issues list... it's still growingBut only AMD have bad driver (c)
I watched that yesterday. He wasn't a big fan of the added input latency from MFG. Same input we've seen from other reviews where the latency is pretty atrocious if the actual FPS is low. He did seem to like the new DLSS though.
There's plenty of redundancy in the 5090's GB202, both in the L2 and SMs. There is none in the PHYs, but I don't know if that's a problem.
Perhaps the only reason is that you can't really make that many GB202 in a 300mm waffer, and TSMC didn't start mass-producing those chips until recently (late December?).
der8auer mentions the fact that OEMs had almost no time to do Quality Control on their cards before, because Nvidia sent them the chips way too late.
Blackwell might have suffered from a bunch of internal delays (perhaps related to missing max frequency clock targets) but then Nvidia didn't want to delay GPUs' release, so they ended up in this situation where they started selling the cards without having accumulated any stock.
This last decision might have been pressured by the tariffs on China. Had the cards been announced in late March then perhaps Jensen couldn't have announced a $1000 MSRP for the 5080 and $2000 for the 5090. And unlike AMD, Nvidia knows full well the importance of release day reviews (which is probably what 90% of GPU buyers read/see).
Jensen wants to keep his 70% margin, plus amd is even shifting wafers to ai.IMO, the smart move for Nvidia would have been to prioritize production of the GPU dies that are going to compete against RDNA4 so they can have excellent supply for those GPUs when they are launched. No one shopping for a 5090 is going to settle for a 9070 XT , they will wait until they can get the 5090. Someone interested in the 5070 or 5070 Ti however are far more likely to cross shop AMD if they can't find the Nvidia product in stock.
Yep... still growingTake a look at launch driver known issues list... it's still growing
Open Issues:
- Changing state of "Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area" does not take effect until PC is rebooted [4995658]
- [VRay 6] Unexpected Low Performance on CUDA Vpath Tests for Blackwell GPUs [4915763]
- [GeForce RTX 5080] Valorant may crash when starting game [4951583]
- 3rd party utility NVIDIA Profile Inspector may crash when used with NVIDIA driver 572.16 [5073734]
- [No Mans Sky] Game may crash when enabling frame generation [5083718]
- [Windows 11 23H2] When exiting Final Fantasy XVI, PC may freeze [5083532]
- [Delta Force] Some PC configurations may experience performance regression when Resizable BAR is enabled [5083758]
- [GODOT/Red Dead Redemption 2/ImGui] Some Vulkan apps may display minor rendering artifacts with GRD 572.16 [5086373]
- [GeForce RTX 5080/5090] ARK Survival Evoled crashes shortly after launching game [5086449]
- [Shadow of the Tomb Raider] Game may crash when Ray Traced Shadow quality is set to High or Ultra [5086423]
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...rce-grd-57216-feedback-thread-released-13025/
- [SteamVR] Some apps may display stutter on GeForce RTX 50 series [5088118]
- After letting display go to sleep for an extended period, driver may crash when waking up monitor [5089560]
IIRC the memory needs to be benchmarked at every step, the error corrections leads people to believe it is stable at way higher speeds than it actually is.