Discussion Nvidia Blackwell in Q1-2025

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Golgatha

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It's happening on the CPU side too. Ryzen X3D CPUs are being scalped hard because AMD can't provide enough of them. Intel decided to just give up and not compete with them for the gaming crown.
I don't really see this. The only CPU that's out of stock Online is the 9950X3D. If you have a Micro Center near you, all are in stock at 25+.
 

Ranulf

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Yeah, I just looked it up. I'm on August as well and went to download Nov and Dec drivers, anything pre 50 series. As usual, the dumb Nvidia app auto updates itself the second you click on it so I had to wait 2 minutes for it to update and be able to load info on the card/drivers. No option I can see to tell to not auto update.
 

DAPUNISHER

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Nice to see more confirmation. Been reading reports of the new drivers screwing up all rtx cards for the past month or so. I've avoided updating my 2060s card drivers.
If you look at my thread in the Nvidia forum where no one is willing to help me 🤣 You can see my 3050 crashes if I try to use FSR FG with DLSS. I should have posted some bull💩and relied on Cunningham's Law 😁

Batman Arkham City runs like crap with or without PhysX, so Imma blame it on the drivers. As my GTX 1080 when I had it, played those games great.
 
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aigomorla

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ahhh they entirely removed physx? I thought it was just removed from the new cards, but still there for the older cards?

Then who would want to ugprade drivers if your not playing the latest AAA titles or on the 5000 series?
 

DaaQ

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Im pretty sure you gonna have missing Pork ROPS in those sausages.



They dont care about gamers anymore and basically telling us to just get the professional series for more.

They know whales will pay for it.
Not being able to keep inventory on even the 3400 dollar ASUS card is a statement itself.

So they are trying to see if gamer will buy the 5000+ dollar titan 5090.. aka the PRO card because Gamers are stupid like that sometimes.
But PLEASE DONT TELL JENSEN if he adds RGB to that PRO card, he can upsell it an additional 30% and call it ESPORT PRO Edition.

Then he will have 6 T-REX's in a room... One RTX RPO dressed up as a LAMB.


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I dont know if this was posted... but yup... RIP Nvidia gamers...
I really do not want to support them anymore, but unlike ASUS where we can go somewhere else, there isn't a alternative to the 4090/5090.
If all your doing is gaming, then there are alternatives. Heck I ran BG3 on a GTX 780
 

Golgatha

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ahhh they entirely removed physx? I thought it was just removed from the new cards, but still there for the older cards?

Then who would want to ugprade drivers if your not playing the latest AAA titles or on the 5000 series?
PhysX hasn't had a driver version update since 2021, but there is still hardware support for the last version of PhysX up until the 5000 series. This is why I have a 3050 6GB in my son's gaming computer (2nd rig listed in my signature) that's dedicated to PhysX.
 
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The issue isn't Physx, it's CUDA, which nVidia dropped 32-bit support for.
Don't know why they couldn't keep a 32-bit CUDA codepath in their drivers for older GPUs. I think the simple answer is that they just prefer everyone dumped their older GPUs in landfills and bought the latest one from them.

in Bill Burr's voice: "Ohhh we can't support 32-bit CUDA coz it's killing us! Sucking the life out of us! Our children are crying coz we have to stay in the office after hours trying to support 32-bit CUDA!"

For a company that keeps harping on how AI will change the world, sure is funny how they have no AI solution for keeping 32-bit CUDA alive.

Hypocrites.
 

MrTeal

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5090 Laptop review at Compubase. The Razer Blade they tested was actually slower than the ROG Scar albeit 135+25 W versus 150+25.
Doesn't that show the 5090 ahead of the 4090 even with the lower power budget? Granted 11% ahead with 8% more shaders isn't setting the world on fire, but if it's at 135W vs 150W that's not awful.
 
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Golgatha

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MSI.com also doesn’t charge sales tax in my experience, which can be a big deal.
Yeah, B&H is nice in that regard with their PayBoo card that negates sales tax from the final total. Most of the time I purchase at Micro Center because they're local and I get 5% off with my card there, and they also price match pretty much anyone.
 

TESKATLIPOKA

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Doesn't that show the 5090 ahead of the 4090 even with the lower power budget? Granted 11% ahead with 8% more shaders isn't setting the world on fire, but if it's at 135W vs 150W that's not awful.
You are not looking at the laptop but desktop score.
5090 Laptop is slower.
 
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