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

[Mr. Fox]

Turdbook garbage from the Green Goblin, in partnership with the identity theft trashmaster Nazis at Micro$lop.

 

[Talon]

7 hours ago, electrosoft said:

I've returned to the mindset too of, "just game on the damn thing," I mean it is with a nice AB OC and tuned up  NVCPL and system tweaked but still.....yeah. I stopped running the Matrix last week and went back to the stock vbios.

 

In the end, for gaming, you're not going to see that much of a difference worth the insane extra pull and the fact summer is approaching and with the Matrix running my room was routinely a sauna.

 

There is almost zero chance of a 5090ti unless the AI market suddenly craters and companies cancel their orders in droves. The way it's going I expect the 6090 to be a distant afterthought as initial Rubin production is going to be all about AI and I wouldn't be surprised to see the 6080 and below introduced first and for quite a bit before we even get a sniff of a 6090 if at all.

 

A lot of it comes down to what AMD is bringing to market too as their next gen is rumored to be a major leap in performance. Think 5700xt = 9070xt then we jumped to the 6000 series which was a massive uplift in performance matching the 3090 in raster. 9070xt really pushed a lot of auxilary capabilities outside of raster for AMD and is a portend of things to come....WoW is still broke in DX12 though again with AMD....🤣

 

I do know Nvidia needs a new architecture and a serious node shrink because 5090 power draw is insane for a consumer level product. Ironically, it reminds me of the GTX 590 which in its day pulled insane amounts of power for its dual GPU setup.....

 

What CPU do you use as your daily driver for gaming now? Bartlett? AM5? 14900?

 

270K and 5090 in the main setup and 273PQE and 5070 in the tinkering rig lol. My 9850X3D lives in the living room, now GPU-less 🙁. I do have a B580 brand new sealed from Intel as an RMA replacement that I could put in there if I feel like using it lol. If Zen 6 ends up being amazing and Nova Lake a flop, maybe I'll switch it up and drive the AM5 for awhile. 

[tps3443]

I almost got scammed on a 5090 tonight!! I drove 65 miles to buy a ASUS RTX 5090 TUF which was listed for $2,800 USD. 
 

After meeting him, I inspected the card, no core, no memory chips, fans unplugged etc, stripped screws pure junk, I turned him down right away and explained the situation (He played dumb of course) , then I quickly left feedback to try and help any other potential buyers, let’s just say I didn’t buy it! See my review below. (He had like (5) 5090’s apparently) 

 

Here is the Facebook ads attached as well. It’s still up! What a scammer!! This was not a FIFTY-NINETY but it was a FIFTY-NONE-dee lol. 
 

 

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/1EQULuMgY3/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[Mr. Fox]

10 hours ago, tps3443 said:

I almost got scammed on a 5090 tonight!! I drove 65 miles to buy a ASUS RTX 5090 TUF which was listed for $2,800 USD. 
 

After meeting him, I inspected the card, no core, no memory chips, fans unplugged etc, stripped screws pure junk, I turned him down right away and explained the situation (He played dumb of course) , then I quickly left feedback to try and help any other potential buyers, let’s just say I didn’t buy it! See my review below. (He had like (5) 5090’s apparently) 

 

Here is the Facebook ads attached as well. It’s still up! What a scammer!! This was not a FIFTY-NINETY but it was a FIFTY-NONE-dee lol. 
 

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/1EQULuMgY3/?mibextid=wwXIfr

We live in a dangerous world and scammers are becoming very common. Did you file a police report? That SOB (and all of the others like him) needs to go to jail and get brutally beaten by other inmates while awaiting for his arraignment.  I'd also report the Marketplace post as a scam.

[electrosoft]

Good observation on the status of Ray Tracing:

 

 

 

Not a sham, but the actual hardware chops required in raw power just haven't been delivered by Nvidia and many games don't even bother with it or give it token lip service.

 

Feels like the long con from Nvidia to switch reliance to DLSS and FG....

 

Nevermind the VRAM regression or at the very least lack of progression considering its need for RT and PT....

 

 

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13 hours ago, tps3443 said:

I almost got scammed on a 5090 tonight!! I drove 65 miles to buy a ASUS RTX 5090 TUF which was listed for $2,800 USD. 
 

After meeting him, I inspected the card, no core, no memory chips, fans unplugged etc, stripped screws pure junk, I turned him down right away and explained the situation (He played dumb of course) , then I quickly left feedback to try and help any other potential buyers, let’s just say I didn’t buy it! See my review below. (He had like (5) 5090’s apparently) 

 

Here is the Facebook ads attached as well. It’s still up! What a scammer!! This was not a FIFTY-NINETY but it was a FIFTY-NONE-dee lol. 
 

 

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/1EQULuMgY3/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

Dude......

 

Good thing you know what you're looking for in these situations. Next time, tell them you will be testing it on the spot before purchase to weed out a lot of chuff even if that means lugging your son's desktop with you to a Starbucks, library, police safe trading zone, BNN or more to test it out.

 

PCpartpicker shows the cheapest 5090 available right now in stock is $4200.

 

With the market the way it is, any sub $3k deal has to be sus. Anyone who has a 5090 KNOWS it is valuable so selling it for cheap doesn't make sense. Not that it can't happen, but you have to protect yourself first.

 

(HUGS $1971 MSI Vanguard 5090 1.125 Open Box MC special even harder while checking WV2 connections 🤣)

 

 

 

 

[Papusan]

1 hour ago, electrosoft said:

Good observation on the status of Ray Tracing:

 

 

 

It's so important that Thermal Grizzly sold their soul....

 

3DMark’s Next-gen ray tracing test adds native 4K, AI upscaling and frame generation

According to the video description, Thermal Grizzly is the first sponsor of the new 3DMark benchmark and is showing the teaser exclusively at its booth in Taipei.

 

[Mr. Fox]

1 hour ago, electrosoft said:

Cpartpicker shows the cheapest 5090 available right now in stock is $4200.

 

With the market the way it is, any sub $3k deal has to be sus. Anyone who has a 5090 KNOWS it is valuable so selling it for cheap doesn't make sense. Not that it can't happen, but you have to protect yourself first.

The only reason I am not selling my 5090 for $1500 more than I paid for it ($2000 more than it is worth) is because I'd not be able to replace it. The only option would be a downgrade because I would never pay the current market rate (new or used) for a 5090 at this point. They were not even worth what we paid for them before prices basically doubled.

[Mr. Fox]

2 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

It's so important that Thermal Grizzly sold their soul....

 

3DMark’s Next-gen ray tracing test adds native 4K, AI upscaling and frame generation

According to the video description, Thermal Grizzly is the first sponsor of the new 3DMark benchmark and is showing the teaser exclusively at its booth in Taipei.

 

I wonder how much Roman paid in advertising costs to have the company name appear in the benchmark? Probably more of a business / marketing move than a sponsorship.

[Papusan]

3 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

I wonder how much Roman paid in advertising costs to have the company name appear in the benchmark? Probably more of a business / marketing move than a sponsorship.

 

Thermal Grizzly's Scale: While Thermal Grizzly is a premium, highly respected enthusiast brand founded by der8auer, it operates on a smaller marketing budget compared to past mega-corporation sponsors like MSI or GALAX. This suggests the partnership was likely structured around a mid-tier six-figure multi-year contract rather than millions of dollars. From between $100,000 and up to $500,000. Probably not much above $200.000 - $250.000.

 

Black or white edition cable?😀

 

What worse than burnt connectors is missing cores and memory. Aka scammed. The scammers now  glue the screws so you can't open your graphics card to check if your scammed....

 

 

[Mr. Fox]

6 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

Thermal Grizzly's Scale: While Thermal Grizzly is a premium, highly respected enthusiast brand founded by der8auer, it operates on a smaller marketing budget compared to past mega-corporation sponsors like MSI or GALAX. This suggests the partnership was likely structured around a mid-tier six-figure multi-year contract rather than millions of dollars. From between $100,000 and up to $500,000. Probably not much above $200.000.

Budget aside, Roman is probably too smart to waste any more than $200K on advertising. I know I am not alone in saying that I cannot identify many purchases based upon advertising. There are exceptions and fringe examples, but I generally view people that purchase items based on advertising as being "not very smart" people, and smart business owners know that. The best advertisements are (a) results and (b) word-of-mouth. Marketing is for muppets.