Extract was opened, toolset was gone

Hohoho 🎅

tl;dr:

5090 - good (for prosumers, ai nerds, etc)
5080 - bad
5070 Ti - good
5070 - bad (unless you are a pro and play in 1080p)

DLSS4 Frame Gen - still meh
DLSS4 upscaling - very cool
Reflex 2 - very good

Nvidia's strategy for shareholders - turbo good

So Nvidia can make just about everyone upgrade in some way or another.

Watch them suddenly discover what amazing stuff you can do with more VRAM once they have the SUPER refresh out in 2026.

A brilliant move for the shareholders.

So, conclusion time!

Nvidia has a very nice generation of cards ready to roll out.

A lot of RTX2000 or even GeForce 1000 owners will upgrade.

Only to realize they got scammed on VRAM.

But don't worry, Nvidia has the fix ready: The 5000 SUPER series with 3GB chips, so 1.5x the VRAM in a ~year or so!

DLSS4 with the new transformer model looks _very_ promising, the ghosting in ray reconstruction was atrocious, so I'm happy they fixed that.

The same is true for Reflex 2 with frame warp, suuuper cool tech, that should be front and center!

So conclusion time:

The RTX 5070 only having 12GB of VRAM, yet again, makes it a tough choice to recommend when the laughably tiny chip and miniscule amount of VRAM has an asking price of $549.

That's just straight up bad value. It has the power for 1440p UW + RT but can't due to the garbage VRAM buffer.

Verdict: 🚮

The RTX 5070 TI however, is probably the breadwinner in all of this.

16GB VRAM, while still too low for this level of performance, is less of a problem if the asking price isn't realistically in the four digits.

So I can see this card being more popular than what it usually would be.

Verdict: 👍

The RTX 5080, at the same $1000 price point that the 4080S had, a clear improvement in just about everything.

However, for that price, only 16 GB VRAM. 16GB already saw the 4080S struggle in some RT scenarios.

This will be the dumbest card to buy, not that gamers won't do it anyway.

Verdict: 🚮

This isn't an issue with the 5090 because the raster performance isn't why you buy this monster, but it'll be important down the stack.

Because from now on, we'll be in "I have some questions about this" territory.

So let's get started with the ugly.

Now let's have a chat about increases in performance or "performance".

As a lot of tech tubers slowly realize, frame generation isn't an fps increase tech.

It's a smoothing tech.

So the only good number on this slide is the Far Cry 6 number and that is RT, so raster will be even lower.

In all seriousness, the obvious first and foremost is the 🌟RTX 5090 🌟

↗️ 27% more power
↗️ 27% more frames (lmao) in RT at 4k Max
↗️ 25% more price
↗️ 21% more transistors
↗️ 33% more VRAM

For gaming, I don't really see the reason to spend $2000.

But for AI and prosumers this thing _slaps_

Let's start with the most important one, the biggest L.

Jen Hsen's leather jacket.

What the fuck is that thing??

Did he go to a underground 1980s disco club where Giorgio Moroder was chain smoking ciggies and smashing it at the turn tables?

Fat L, honestly.

Pretty much the only L of the night.