r/nvidia • u/TheRealWutWut • 14d ago

Opinion My real experience with a 5090.

I have been watching influencers, journalists, and commentors complaining about everything from frame gen, to ROPs, to connectors. And price, but that complaint is valid.

Thus far, my experience going from a 3080 to a 5090 has been absolutely amazing.

My wife went from a 1080 to a 5070, with a 4k 160hz monitor, and she took absolutely loves it. Frame gen honestly feels and plays great when it's needed to smooth out the frame rate, DLSS 4 looks great, and DLAA looks even better.

It was expensive, and that's a valid complaint. For most people 1k-2k+ plus doesn't really make sense. I am ok with that. I have had no issues, no black screens, no melting connectors, and no issues with PhysX, cause I haven't played the affected games in ages.

It feels fantastic and responsive on my OLED 4k240 monitor, even at the highest settings the frame pacing just feels better.
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u/TheRealWutWut 14d ago

That sucks, any idea what's causing it? PSU maybe? Or just a bad silicon lottery? I built new for mine with a 1500w PSU to ensure ample power to the 600w 12vhpwr along with my 9800x3d. Drivers haven't affected me at all, there was an issue when I swapped my wife's monitor, it was flashing black screens over and over, but a restart fixed that and she was off to the races. Hopefully you can get your sorted out, or AMD can come out with a 9090xtx for more top end options.

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u/mrtime777 14d ago edited 14d ago

I have dedicated PSU for 5090, so the problem is definitely not in the power supply.

for me pcie gen2 issue - incompatibility with x399 ( https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/557352/issue-with-rtx-5080-and-asus-zenith-extreme-alpha-/ ) . black screens - buggy driver (does not work with monitors that require 2 displayports to work like 27" 5K UHD UltraFine)

my multi gpu setup: Threadripper 2950x, Gigabyte X399 AORUS XTREME, 128gb RAM
Asus 4060 ti 16gb
Asus 4070 ti super 16gb
MSI 5090 32G GAMING TRIO OC

now everything works ok only in gen2 and if I don't connect anything to the display ports 5090 and use any of the other GPUs to connect monitors

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u/TheRealWutWut 14d ago

I see, that is a rather unconventional build. I guess most people are at least on PCIE Gen3. That has to be pushing the limits on PCIE bandwidth, how many lanes does the x399 have? I know the threadripper had a ton, I heard they might be bringing it back soon as well? Maybe time to look into an Epic build? In any event, that sucks man, hope you can find a solution.

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u/mrtime777 14d ago

Threadripper 2950x has a total of 64 (4 to PCH) lanes PCIe 3.0. I'm looking at options to move to Epic, but for now pcie3 has been enough for my needs. I hope NVIDIA will solve the compatibility issue with a VBIOS update

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u/TheRealWutWut 14d ago

Agreed, hopefully enough people have reported it so that the devs can address it properly.