RTX 5060s Announced.

Because I'm cheap... This is why I just put tower on its side instead of pay £50 for a bracket or a crutch. But it's also why I hope in the future we move towards vertical mounting as standard somehow.

As graphics cards get ever more powerful there isn't much we can do if we keep cooling them on air as standard, but water cooling adds cost and then leave the radiator needing to be put somewhere anyway.

Welll... There IS a way? But it's gonna suck *** through a straw:
Limit the length of the Card to maximum of 10" (254mm)and Stack them vertically. It would basically be like stacking 1080TIs but every GPU would come with two parts lol. It would solve the sag issue but now you'd have most of your board occupied, two PCIEs occupied or otherwise blocked and no room for any other peripherals unless you have a Workstation Board, and Airflow concerns would increase.

Not to mention that there are GUARANTEED to be problems with having a GPU split into two pieces like that vs having everything on one singular card.

It would work and I bet money they thought about it but probably decided it would be easier to just go longer and add a support vs going taller and needing to make changes to the standard MOBO specs.

On this topic I installed new drivers before shutting on
Pc down last night and just booted it up and loaded two FFXI instances and the GPU is going wild like it's on full load. Very worrying

The function has outgrown the form it seems. It's funny because I considered how it would work if they positioned the PCI more toward the middle of the card and had the excess stick out the back of the PC, but.. yeah, it's overdone.


The drivers are tragic though. They used to be so good at that. Like if you ordered the GPU on launch, the drivers are legit before you get the GPU in the mail. Dammit Jensen

Double check your drivers if using Nvidia. There’s a bug where it’s not tracking temps properly and we have no idea why they fcked with it in the first place. Jayztwocents has a full video on it.

They released a new update yesterday but I don’t know if the issue was fixed yet or not.

It's not a crutch, it's the massive coolers these things now need. As I mentioned the entire concept of daughter + motherboard joined by a slot dates back to when those daughter boards were much smaller.

The 4090FE weights ~4.62lbs and it's on the lighter side of the available cards. AIB partners will install bigger cooling solutions as a way to provide additional value, which makes them heavier. The 5090'S are coming in around 5lbs due to their 600W power requirement vs the 450W of the 4090. The AMD cards are also in the 4~5 pound range as they can use over 400W.

Now if you disagree with this, feel free to stand outside NVidia or AMD HQ and protest or demand a personal audience with Jensen Huang or Lisa Su to tell them how they are "doing it wrong".

If you disagree with the entire slot design, feel free to go stand outside these guy's building and tell them how wrong they are.

https://pcisig.com

Non 5090 cards are dropping below MSRP in some countries. 5090 still rare
https://www.techspot.com/news/107753-nvidia-rtx-50-series-gpu-prices-drop-below.html

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-also-planning-geforce-rtx-5070-ti-super-with-24gb-gddr7-memory

Rumour is they will release new cards using the 3GB chips (should have just done it in the first place)

They are also rolling out the 5050 or something but they blocked people from benchmark or review anything outside of their own parameters until release. I bet dollars to donuts that last gen cards probably run comparatively without the new bells and whistles.

Nvidia has been too dominant since the 2000 series card kept beating the Red team to the podium. AMD struggled to remain relevant but with the high end crowd talking about Nvidia only, people would hardly notice the Red team with the mid range cards.

The xx60 series cards used to be good value mid range power house. Now, I'm not sure if it's worth the purchase. If a gamer is stuck play at 1080 like most of them then 3080 will probably allow people to max out their settings. If they move to 1440p then it's probably 4070 super. If it's 4k then they belong to the high end crowd looking for a 5090.

As a laptop GPU with a definite 8GB (finally) the 5060 mobile doesn't seem too bad if it is priced the same as new 4060 laptops when they were out. If we're 3 years from a 6000 series then things have to be seriously different by then for people to want to buy. PCI-E 6 will be out (5.0 and even 4.0 aren't even being taken advantage of by GPUs yet really) and we'll also have DDR6 memory which with increased speeds and base densities (everything should start coming with more RAM by default - 8/16/32/64GB should become 24/48/96/128GB hopefully) will help iGPUs a lot. 1080p 60hz definitely would not need a dedicated GPU by then, maybe not 1440p 60hz either so there'll be no point in a 6050 or a 6060 if it is only 8GB again.

Idk, graphics is a serious problem for Nvidia. We are stuck at 2015 level graphics simply because it's way harder to make profit on a AAA game without letting the console peasants in. If you go hard on the graphics then scaling down to the console will leave a lot of resources wasted.

A graphic modded Cyberpunk 2077 is outclassing everything recently. And you can probably run it with the 4000 series in 4k. 5060 feels too much like a side grade of 4060 with more bells and whistles rather than raw power generation upgrade.

A resolution upgrade would be nice but we will be back to the size problem. 16 inch laptop can probably rock 1080p without needing much unless you have something like OLED screen. Similarly, a 24 inch desktop gamer probably not going to run 1440p unless he has his 120hz capped out. So unless people are upgrading to 27-32 inches monitor, I don't see 12GB becoming the norm. Nvidia will probably just put the main stream cards in 8gb again.

Well 8gb won't be possible with 3gb chips so I would expect it to be 6050 6gb, 6060 12gb, 6060ti 18gb, 6070 18gb, 6080 24gb, 6090 36gb

Maybe some of the RAM will disappear like the ROPs

I suppose 9/15/21/30GB is possible. It's just unusual you would use an odd number of modules.