Will RTX 5090 Be Too Fast For Any Current CPU?

[UnimportantAcc]

Just replace the CPU with a GPU silly 🥰🥰

[mchits]

[It's 2030, goes to buy RTX 9090 with all of my savings.]
Me: Hey, you have latest GPU, May be RTX 9090.
dealer: (goes inside and comes with a 8 feet server wrack.) here's Your GPU sir, just $100k dollars.

[leo_stanek]

What a world we live in where we are concerned that our GPUs have gotten so good we bottleneck the CPU at 4K high refresh rate. I remember when getting 1080p60 was the dream for high end hardware.

[markusmitchell]

Diminishing returns at this point. Games are unoptimized that's the only reason why these ridiculously stupid specs are needed.

[EmblemParade]

As a 4K/120 gamer I can promise you that we're still GPU limited with the 4090. I often have to compromise on AAA games by enabling DLSS 3 or lower settings, and sometimes just hit 60 FPS. At the same time, I do think upscaling is changing our requirements and expectations, so I hope the silicon can be optimized around that. We don't necessarily need more pixel shader performance if we assume upscaling. The die space is better spent on other features.

[heyguyslolGAMING]

I'll only consider the 5090 if it puts my house at risk of burning down. If it can't do that then its not powerful enough.

[hoverbike]

the 4090 is still hugely gpu limited in games like MSFS2020 in VR, and i expect 2024 to be utterly devastating in VR - and i'm all for it. We get closer and closer to Star Trek computer simulations every year.

[eugkra]

Alex said especially with RT it'll be CPU bound, because of the BVH workload. But what the next generation could offer is moving the BVH maintenance to the GPU alleviating a whole bunch of CPU work.

[LeoDavidson]

Until it does triple 4K at 240Hz without DLSS or frame generation, there's always room for more. :) Whether there's enough of a market for that outside of the sim-racing and flight-sim niches, I don' tknow, but I'd buy one.

[gnoclaude]

Il ride my 4070 Super until next gen consoles drop. Thats when the jump to ai NPU's for gaming and other new features will push me to upgrade. Honestly its overkill for 1440p in the games i play at the moment.

[Torso]

I mean, 4k120 has to be on the table for most games. Even 4k90, throw on some DLAA, call it good. Aside from totally broken PC ports I feel like we're still GPU limited 99% of the time, especially if you have something like a 7800x3D.

[Monsux]

I will just use DLDSR + DLAA on a 4k 120 Hz TV/monitor. CPU won't be the limiting factor, and I'm always getting graphical upgrade. Add path tracing with maxed out settings and the GPU (even RTX 5090 TI Super) would scream for help. I just love DLDSR and how versatile it is for all type of games… Doesn't matter if I'm playing new or older titles.

[Goblue]

I have an RTX 4090 the only way you would see me with a 5090 is if we can get 4K visuals with RT and can have at least 60 FPS rasterized performance no frame gen or DLSS.

[ijustsawthat]

Not if it burns your whole house down.
Cant they design a better connector instead ?

[garethperks]

Thankfully AMD have opened a door for us with X3D. CPUs finally start becoming useful for gaming with ultra high speed memory (e.g on-die cache).

[lewiswright]

Implementation of the of yhe most upto date DP standard can help in this utilisation with higher resolutions available at higher frame rates

[FMBriggs]

I love questions like this because they assume on some level that large companies (Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Intel etc) wouldn't be thinking about bottlenecks or be actively working on developing new ways to utilize cutting edge hardware.

[KontikiChrisSKFE]

I would honestly not mind if it would be too fast or even more power efficient with the new architecture, because I would mainly use the card like that for rendering purposes.

[mkreku]

I use an RTX 3090 right now and I would actually be interested in upgrading if they would start making mini versions of GPU's again. The 40XX series (and AMD's 7900 series) are all gigantic and since I build ITX rigs, they're just not interesting to me. But imagine if they used the smaller processor nodes to keep the performance the same and instead used the node advantage to shrink GPU's. One can dream.

[wl]

' 4K screens coming online now... ' rofl as if they haven't already been released by a year or two.