[friedtofu]

As a lifelong nvidia consumer, I think it's a safe bet to ride out the first wave of 5xxx series GPUs and wait for the inevitable 5080/5070 (GT/Ti/Super/whatever) that should release a few months after with similar specs and better performance based on whatever the complaints surrounding the initial GPUs lacked.

I would expect something like the 5080 super will have something like 20/24Gb of VRAM. 16Gb just seems wrong for their "target" consumer GPU.

[knallfrosch]

Or you wait out the 5000 Super too and get the 6000 series that fixes all the first-gen 5000-Super problems...

[ryao]

They could have used 32Gbps GDDR7 to push memory bandwidth on the 5090 to 2.0TB/sec. Instead, they left some performance on the table. I wonder if they have some compute cores disabled too. They are likely leaving room for a 5090 Ti follow-up.

[nsteel]

Maybe they wanted some thermal/power headroom. It's already pretty mad.

[arvinsim]

I made the mistake of not waiting befpre.

This time around, I will save for the 5090 or just wait for the Ti/Super refreshes.

[valzam]

A few months? Didn't the 4080 Super release at least a few years after the 4080?