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   Jerome (j@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:22:23 JST Jerome
   Users report bricked or unstable RTX 5090 and 5080 cards — root cause to be determined | Tom's Hardware
   
   Drivers, BIOS, PCIe 5.0; what's to blame? Hopefully, these are just isolated new product teething troubles.
   
   https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/users-report-bricked-or-unstable-rtx-5090-and-5080-cards-root-cause-to-be-determined
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     Alyx Hinata ??? (alyx@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:22:22 JST Alyx Hinata ???

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     @j Yay! More broken hardware on launch!
     Nvidia has not been having a good time. At the very least, hopefully nothing starts burning this time around.

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:22:22 JST djsumdog

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     Concern for the 50 people worldwide that were able to actually get a 5090/5080 at launch. Part of me hopes AMD is lying about how they left the high end market, and that their cards have better performance/$ than nVidia as a stealth marketing rug pull.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:18 JST 翠星石

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     @ForbiddenDreamer @biendeo @tyler @eee @A39IsTOZ8SJIr2oM2y.graf@poa.st @j That used to be possible on older memory interfaces, but the clocks are so aggressive that any leads you solder on wouldn't meet the signalling requirements.
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     eee (eee@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:19 JST eee

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     @tyler @biendeo @ForbiddenDreamer @graf @j 64gb ddr5 ram are about 180ish dollaridoos, i bet they can make that work with gpus
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     Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:19 JST Tyler

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     You _can_ pay a microsolder shop to put double capacity ram chips of the same type on your gpu but that is risky.
     
     as far as sticking ddr5 onto a board you'd need an entirely new memory controller to handle that, and the translation would be expensive in terms of latency. Those cards are already basically at capacity anyway as far as the weight that they can handle and density. They are multilayer boards already. You'd need some kind of header on the top to go in an empty bay, like an NVLINK or something if they still have that.
     
     They just choose not to put larger gddr5/6/6x chips on them because they know that you will buy a bigger card.
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     The Forbidden Dreamer (forbiddendreamer@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:19 JST The Forbidden Dreamer

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     @tyler @eee @biendeo @graf @j You can't just solder some leads in somewhere and locate extra chips remotely?
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     The Forbidden Dreamer (forbiddendreamer@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:20 JST The Forbidden Dreamer

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     @eee @graf @biendeo @tyler @j To make you buy an a6000 instead
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     Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:20 JST Tyler

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     So true paytriot
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     anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:21 JST anime graf mays ?️?

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     @biendeo @tyler @ForbiddenDreamer @j It's shitty of Nvidia to not upgrade memory capacity this generation given the increase in demand for AI. 8GB is vastly becoming "not enough" for most tasks
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     eee (eee@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:21 JST eee

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     @graf @biendeo @tyler @ForbiddenDreamer @j why dont gpus have slots for additional sodimm ddr4 on top of its faster memory?
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     Biendeo (biendeo@m.biendeo.com)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:26 JST Biendeo

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     I'm very surprised that in games the loss of memory bandwidth between Ampere and Ada wasn't too meaningful, and then the dramatic increase in bandwidth from Ada to Blackwell...also wasn't that meaningful. 👀 If it wasn't for new games coming out requiring very inefficient algorithms then there wouldn't really be that much demand to upgrade.

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     Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:27 JST Tyler

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     Why are "teething problems" acceptable lmao
     
     Yeah I'll wait. I'm happy with my 4070 super
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     anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:27 JST anime graf mays ?️?

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     @tyler @ForbiddenDreamer @j it's not acceptable, but I think a lot of people bought it without the expectation they'd need a faster bus, or more powerful psu, or ______
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     The Forbidden Dreamer (forbiddendreamer@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:28 JST The Forbidden Dreamer

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     @graf @j I was bummed that they sold out instantly stateside, but at least now I can chuckle at the scalpers holding these cards
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     anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:28 JST anime graf mays ?️?

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     @ForbiddenDreamer @j im either going to try to cop a 4080 super or wait til 6k series tbh
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     anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 21:28:29 JST anime graf mays ?️?

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     @j I almost bought a 5080 sjw my friend I'm glad I didn't because of various reasons
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 00:09:04 JST djsumdog

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     I also kinda wonder if we're at a limit with graphics these days. I haven't gamed in a few months, focusing more on coding. But even when I jump on my Windows box, there's nothing that really screams "Man, I wish I could run this at higher settings cause it's taxing my 3080-Ti" ... like nothing. Some things might run at high or medium instead of ultra, but like who cares?

     I'd rather play older games on my hacked PS4. And when you look at the console market, AMD dominates with their chips (exBox, PS4, PS5 .. all AMD GPUs .. I think they're all AMD CPUs too?)

     I'll admit the PS5 does look really nice, but it's not the same generation jump. I don't think the 50x series will be either. I think a lot of people who are queuing up to buy it either have really old 10xx or 20xx cards they're finally upgrading, or they're just CONSUME whores.

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     Alyx Hinata ??? (alyx@gameliberty.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 00:09:05 JST Alyx Hinata ???

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     They can still have a better performance/$ than nVidia, but that doesn't mean they'll compete at the high end too. I don't want them to abandon the high end market either, but let's face it, when was the last time AMD really managed to be on par with nVidia? On the GPU side, we might have to end up putting our hopes with Intel.