phil_lawson posted at 6:14 AM Sun, 2 March 2025 - #4493998

It might be off topic but its really interesting and useful to know.

Back with the graphics cards, I've just been sent a message by my son taken directly from the Nvidia site showing a 5090 for over £3000! Think I'll persuade him to stick with having my 4090 for now. The card has gone from the site now so they've either sold them all already or there was a mistake. 

After watching YouTube reviewers it seems that its all about how the top cards perform in games and very little about how they compare in the creativity area. Seem like we're left just following on and hoping for the best.

As I'm not using my PC for essential work I think I'll give an Intel Arc A770 a go once I've passed on my 4070. 

The 5000 series launch has been 1 disaster after another.  Between the burning power connectors, the fake MSRPs, the unavailability (which won't be changing for the next 3 - 4 months), and now the missing hardware in the cpu chips themselves (ROPS), it has been about as bad as it can get - but I do believe it will get worse.

It isn't going to get any better anytime soon - Leather Jacket Man has already stated that Nvidia isn't a graphics card company, it is an AI company.  Going forward, only expect the scraps to make it to consumer level video cards.

If you want to see how GPUs do with productivity tasks, don't watch gaming YT channels.  There are a number out there that do cover productivity tasks.

I have an a770, and I am very pleased with it.  It is a productivity monster, and it games at 1440p high.  I also purchased an a310 just for AV1 encode/decode; I am reripping all of my physical media to AV1 to save drive space.

I want to once again agitate for moving away from Opitx and going with a render engine that is GPU agnostic (Cycles or the AMD ProRender engine) - there is no future with Nvidia.