NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, RTX 5080 16 GB, RTX 5070 12 GB To Launch at CES, New PCB “Back Drill” Changes

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-32-gb-rtx-5080-16-gb-rtx-5070-12-gb-ces-2025-launch/

If you thought Lovelace had a bad GPU stack... Wait till you see Blackwell

GDDR6 VRAM Prices Plummet: 8GB of Memory Now Costs $27

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gddr6-vram-prices-plummet

Can we get more vram at low tier for next gen Nvidia? "No"

Oof: Years before Steam, a Blizzard engineer wanted to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store, but was reportedly turned down
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/oof-years-before-steam-a-blizzard-engineer-wanted-to-turn-battle-net-into-a-third-party-game-store-but-was-reportedly-turned-down/
The world of today is the result of every decision and accident that led to it, which is a disconcerting thought given how many things it's possible to almost do in a lifetime. Case in point, according to a new book on the history of Blizzard, the Warcraft studio rejected a proposal to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store years before Steam launched.
>> Dear God. Can you imagine Steam in the hands of Activision and Bobby Kotick? **shudders**

Blizzard canceled a roguelike version of Diablo 4 with permadeath and Batman: Arkham-style brawls
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/blizzard-canceled-a-roguelike-version-of-diablo-4-with-permadeath-and-batman-arkham-style-brawls/
If things had gone differently at Blizzard 10 years ago, we might've been playing a version of Diablo 4 with melee brawls akin to the Batman: Arkham series. I'm not even sure that idea sounds good on paper, but it didn't seem to work out in practice either because Blizzard eventually rebooted the project into the demon-slaying action RPG we have today.

I just realized (yeah, I know, I'm slow) that if that memory configuration is true, the 5060 will come again with a paltry 128-bit bus and either an insuffcient 8GB of VRAM or 16GB that won't do anything because the chip won't hav eenough memory bandwidth to take advantage of it. After all, we know Nvidia isn't going to use the newer and expensive GDDR7 on such lower parts.

So yeah, for those that want more memory, AMD may be the only one to bring it. And we'll see if they do or not. ***stares at the equally crippled 7600 8GB & 7600XT 16GB cards***

Anyone thinks this card will be good? Because this late in the cycle and likely aimed only for China, it doesn't look like it will bring much to the table.

I think I am at a point of caring less and less about hardware news. Like I am obviously going to post them but instead of being from the perspective of "Oh boy, I can't wait to buy it" to "Thank fuck I don't have to think about buying it" lol

Back in the day, 80 class always felt like the flagship. You started with the "80" as the top dog and then "80 Ti" the year later for around the same price if you wanted "Titan tier" performance. Yea there were Titans and all that but those felt like the rich people toys since 80 class never felt very compromised. These days it feels like the 80 class is there just to keep competitive with Radeon while 90 class shows off the true capabilities and the generational uplift we want to see... For the kidney prices we don't want to spend. If the rumours end up being legit, the gulf between 5080 and 5090 is a generational leap in itself.

Feels like a situation where instead of upgrading every gen or every 2 gens, you buy the top dog and chill for 6-8 years.

News 1: If this really was years before Steam, then Blizzard most certainly was still part of Sierra On-line, itself a subsidiary of Vivendi. So, no Activision store with that one yet.

Besides, having their own storefront didn't exactly mean it would work out nicely. Both Stardock and Paradox had their own stores (Impulse, sold to GameStop, and GamersGate, spun off) before they divested from them. In fact, I was on those stores (and GOG) first before switching to Steam.

News 2: Blizzard is going full circle here; Diablo was originally conceived as a roguelike with graphics (most roguelikes at the time, and even today, still used ASCII characters) until someone removed the turns and ran the game in real time. 

My guess is that the 7650GRE is made of Navi 32 chips that weren't good enough for the 7700XT. As such, it should fit right in between the 7600(XT) and 7700Xt in terms of performance.

As for how much memory this chip is gonna have, that's an interesting question. After all; Navi 32 isn't monolithic, and AMD could put as many MCD on that this as they want. But I guess they're going to use 3 of them, just like on the 7700XT, 2 would simply be too little for the performance.

The 7650GRE could performance-wise be the perfect counter to the 4060Ti, with similar performance but less VRAM issues for a much cheaper price. It's biggest Problem will be the price: the gap between the 7600 and 7700 models has been shrinking, so much so that there's not much left in between the 7600XT and 7700XT to make way for a new card: Either it will be just $30 or less apart from one of the models or AMD kills of the 7600XT to replace it with the 7650GRE.

You say this, and I just finished watching this a few hrs ago lol (GET OUT OF MY HEAD CHARLES!).

I'm still rocking my 1080ti atm, so all I'm having to do atm is avoid all the stupidly expensive/janky "AAA" games, while focusing on indies and my backlog. Still managing to get by at 1440p as well and happy with reaching 60fps at this point.

I know the next Nvidia line-up will be out of my price range, and I'm still not a fan of the whole AI focus, let alone RT (I'm still happy with raster/baked in fx, I've been replaying Dying Light 1 and that game still looks fucking good to me at night time/sunset).

I remember when 80 and 80TI were considered the top of the line, and a bracket you could lock yourself into to skip another gen (which was originally what I was going to do with my 980ti, but then the 1080ti just caught my interest and I will never regret that purchase). I feel like them introducing the Titan line caused a disruption, because at that point you had folks like Total Biscuit rocking dual Titans, and using them as the new cards to bench with, which of course was beyond realistic expectations due to their og price point.

Fast forward to today and the 90 models are basically being visually treated like they are the new Titans, when spec-wise they are just the 80 models, and the general public still haven't caught onto this deception yet. 

Considering how long the 1080ti has taken me, I'm likely to just grab a card I know I can afford and coast for the 6-7yrs, if not a lil more. I'm getting older and fine with tuning down settings. I'd rather tune down than rely on AI, that's just how I'll be till the day I die (I will always see AI assistance as a crutch, not the solution). 

Vanillaware is such an odd case, in that I keep hearing their CEO doesn't like PC gaming, because of the fact that we can mod our games and such. The weird thing is the fact that they seem to not be aware of PC gaming's nature/long-term history (we've had modding as far back as the 70/80's, all the way to this day), which makes his decision to not budge, having him look like a bit of an ignorant person.

We've seen plenty of Japanese games selling decently on PC, welcomed with open arms and even hyped. It's the ones that don't put the effort into the port jobs that tend to recieve the negative treatment, but that's only because we want them to do better, instead of settling for less.

You say this, and I just finished watching this a few hrs ago lol (GET OUT OF MY HEAD CHARLES!).

I'm still rocking my 1080ti atm, so all I'm having to do atm is avoid all the stupidly expensive/janky "AAA" games, while focusing on indies and my backlog. Still managing to get by at 1440p as well and happy with reaching 60fps at this point.

I know the next Nvidia line-up will be out of my price range, and I'm still not a fan of the whole AI focus, let alone RT (I'm still happy with raster/baked in fx, I've been replaying Dying Light 1 and that game still looks fucking good to me at night time/sunset).

I remember when 80 and 80TI were considered the top of the line, and a bracket you could lock yourself into to skip another gen (which was originally what I was going to do with my 980ti, but then the 1080ti just caught my interest and I will never regret that purchase). I feel like them introducing the Titan line caused a disruption, because at that point you had folks like Total Biscuit rocking dual Titans, and using them as the new cards to bench with, which of course was beyond realistic expectations due to their og price point.

Fast forward to today and the 90 models are basically being visually treated like they are the new Titans, when spec-wise they are just the 80 models, and the general public still haven't caught onto this deception yet. 

Considering how long the 1080ti has taken me, I'm likely to just grab a card I know I can afford and coast for the 6-7yrs, if not a lil more. I'm getting older and fine with tuning down settings. I'd rather tune down than rely on AI, that's just how I'll be till the day I die (I will always see AI assistance as a crutch, not the solution). 

It occurred to me the other day that this time Nvidia may have another reason to do this other than greed: China.

Remember that the US limited the hardware capabilities that could be exported to China for AI research, and the 4090 surpassed it, leading to the launch of the cut down 4090D.

Now, Nvidia could never launch a 5090 slower than the 4090 (can you imagine it?), but they could make the 5080 slightly slower than the 4090 to avoid going above that limit and be able to sell the card in China without problems.

And well, the card will still be 25-30% faster than the 4080, so it's not like anyone will be able to accuse Nvidia of not delivering a good generational jump.

You don't like DLSS?  Seems to work really well.  I hate the idea of frame generation but 4k quality is quite something, especially since it jumps fps by 30 to 40.

Maybe...but I'm more willing to bet on usual Green Goblin's greed and shenanigans.

5070 with 12GB?!?! Yeah, fuck off. Even 3060 had 12GB.

I think AMD, if they don't fuck up again royally, will have their big comeback in mid-tier market.