*Official Benchmark Thread* - Post it here or it didn't happen :D

[Mr. Fox]

1 hour ago, hfm said:

I was watching my local microcenter when the news first broke about the 5070 Ti. At first there were still plenty available around MSRP, about 5 days ago there were some MSI models for $834 and $840 and the rest were $1K+. Looked today and the MSI model they have ~25+ of is $990 and the rest are $1K+. I fully expect within a few weeks you won't be able to get one at all. The DDR5 kit I bought in august is 4x the price.. thankfully I decided it pull the trigger on an upgrade at that point (got the 5070Ti at MSRP) .. i was waffling on waiting. At this point I don't think things are going to be a sane upgrade path until well into 2028.

It will take a big upset and collapse of the irrational AI grab-ass nonsense for this to correct itself. Hopefully the crash will be extremely hard, cost all of the bigshots hundreds of billions in losses and come sooner than later. I'd love to see them totally wipe out and burst into flames in time for Christmas sales in 2026. Would be awesome to see a massive dump of hardware surplus that bankrupt AI companies no longer want or need. I'm sure they already have stockpiles of GPUs, storage and RAM that are not even being used that they will need to dump.

[Raiderman]

8 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Sorry to hear about the adverse weather. Your temperatures look to be about the same as Brother @Rage Set and a significant portion of the Eastern US (even the Deep South) is experiencing brutal and abnormal ICE and snow, downed power lines, etc. I suspect that Brothers @tps3443 and @electrosoft are also getting hammered pretty severely right now. The Arizona summer heat can be deadly, but Arizona (and most other states in the West) very seldom have severe or catastrophic weather events. Most of the horrible and catastrophic weather events occur in the Central and Eastern states. Brother @Raiderman and I do not see very many temper tantrums from Mother Nature.

an angry thunderstorm now and then. @Papusan -21c is not too terrible. We will get that here in Idaho from time time. 60mph on a snowmobile is not as much fun when its that cold though!

[JamieTheAnything]

Record setting Precision 7550 with a 7750's 110W Quadro rtx 5000 shoved into it 

 

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/151229648

[electrosoft]

15 hours ago, Papusan said:

 

Yup, game developers need to implement garbage mode in their coming games. AAA games or not.... They need to make the games work ok'ish with 8GB vram buffer. This should be good news for those with slight older 8GB cards.

 

Three RTX 50 cards reportedly make up 75% of NVIDIA’s Q1 2026 supply

 

Most RTX 50 cards shipped have either 8GB or 12GB memory.

 

The damn cold her in the north will continue... Minus 21C yesterday. Not good for  my briken lungs😒

 

Coldest winter in 16 years

 

 

The most logical path considering they want that memory for AI which is much more lucrative but they can't just flat out put a full on "pause" on their consumer section but they sure can clamp it to a trickle...

 

If there was ever a time for the 5070ti on down crowd to switch to AMD, it is now.....

 

11 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Sorry to hear about the adverse weather. Your temperatures look to be about the same as Brother @Rage Set and a significant portion of the Eastern US (even the Deep South) is experiencing brutal and abnormal ICE and snow, downed power lines, etc. I suspect that Brothers @tps3443 and @electrosoft are also getting hammered pretty severely right now. The Arizona summer heat can be deadly, but Arizona (and most other states in the West) very seldom have severe or catastrophic weather events. Most of the horrible and catastrophic weather events occur in the Central and Eastern states. Brother @Raiderman and I do not see very many temper tantrums from Mother Nature.

 

It is brutally cold (relatively speaking) for us  right now coming off of that snow storm which just left everything frozen over. Right now it is a balmy 4f (~ -16c) here....

 

When I was younger, I loved the cold and looked forward to it. Now? I can see why people move to warmer, more even tempered states. 

 

5 hours ago, hfm said:

I was watching my local microcenter when the news first broke about the 5070 Ti. At first there were still plenty available around MSRP, about 5 days ago there were some MSI models for $834 and $840 and the rest were $1K+. Looked today and the MSI model they have ~25+ of is $990 and the rest are $1K+. I fully expect within a few weeks you won't be able to get one at all. The DDR5 kit I bought in august is 4x the price.. thankfully I decided it pull the trigger on an upgrade at that point (got the 5070Ti at MSRP) .. i was waffling on waiting. At this point I don't think things are going to be a sane upgrade path until well into 2028.

 

Stock has either dried up and/or baseline prices are getting a bit slap happy.

 

Lowest prices on part picker:

PNY 5070ti = 969.35

Asus Prime 5080 = $1364.99

Gigabyte Aorus Stealth Ice 5090 = $3579.98

Gigabyte Gaming 9070xt = $719.99

 

So glad I snagged that Red Devil earlier this month for $683 ($879.98 on PPC) and Vanguard 5090 $1971 (Basically Unobtanium status) back in August from Microcenter.

 

That Vengeance 2x24GB 9200 kit I managed to snag in December for $389 is now $969.99

 

I picked up a couple of Samsung 9100 Pro 1TB drives w/ heatsinks when I saw the writing on the wall for ~$149.99. They are now $229.99

 

Luckily, CPUs, Motherboards, cases, PSUs are suffering the most in the pricing downturn and their prices have stayed the same or fallen a tad.

 

Anyone looking to build out in the US, Microcenter bundle deals are just crazy good value atm. CPU, Motherboard and DDR5 memory in many configs and priced fairly even before the Ramapocalypse....

 

I'm set for hardware now till Nova and even then I will just need a MB and CPU.....

 

Good call not waffling.....

 

 

4 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

It will take a big upset and collapse of the irrational AI grab-ass nonsense for this to correct itself. Hopefully the crash will be extremely hard, cost all of the bigshots hundreds of billions in losses and come sooner than later. I'd love to see them totally wipe out and burst into flames in time for Christmas sales in 2026. Would be awesome to see a massive dump of hardware surplus that bankrupt AI companies no longer want or need. I'm sure they already have stockpiles of GPUs, storage and RAM that are not even being used that they will need to dump.

 

Unfortunately the big players will take the hit on the books and pass it along to us in the long run. The Googles and Microsofts will just keep it moving. AMD will take a minor chip on the chin. Hardest hit will be AI focused entities and Nvidia. I look to the day Nvidia has to come to us on bent knee, hat in hand, tail firmly tucked between their legs asking for our forgiveness....

 

I will never use any Micron consumer products again even if they fire back up the Crucial brand post AIB (AI Bust).