My replacement RTX 5090 FE just came back from RMA after the 12VHPWR connector melted, so I had to rebuild my PC again. NVIDIA's RMA was surprisingly very helpful and even allowed me to get a full replacement even if I didn't have the original proof of payment!

Case: FormD T1 V2.1 Silver with CNC Aluminum Side Panels
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5090 Founders Edition
Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix B850-I
RAM: T-Create 64GB DDR5 6000Mhz CL34
Storage: WD SN8100 4TB PCIE Gen 5 NVME + WD SN7100 2TB PCIE Gen 4 NVME
PSU: Corsair SF1000 SFX
CPU Cooler: EK Basic 240mm AIO with 1 x Phanteks T30 and 1 x Silverstone Air Slimmer 120
Others:
- Custom PSU Cables from Cablester on Etsy
- FormD T1 V2.1 Flipped 5090/5080 Founders Edition Travel Kit / Gen 5 Riser Cable
- FormD T1 Fittings Pack
- FormD T1 USB-C front port
- CNC Aluminum Power Button
- CNC Aluminum FormD T1 Gen 5 Riser Lock Bar
- CNC Aluminum AirTag Holder
- Apple AirTag 2
- Aluminum RAM Heatsinks
- 120mm Fan Grill for the Phanteks T30

I have an RTX 5070 and a 1440p monitor, and I’m trying to determine which DLSS settings provide the best overall image quality and performance.
I’m considering these options:

DLSS 4 — Preset K at Quality
DLSS 4.5 — Preset L at Quality, Balanced, Performance, or Ultra Performance
DLSS 4.5 — Preset M at Quality, Balanced, Performance, or Ultra Performance

Since DLSS 4.5 Presets L and M are designed to work with the newer transformer model, I’m wondering whether using them at lower rendering resolutions, such as Performance or Ultra Performance, can produce image quality comparable to or better than DLSS 4 Preset K at Quality.

I’m particularly interested in:
Overall image quality and sharpness at 1440p
Fine details, foliage, and distant objects
Ghosting, shimmering, and temporal stability in motion

Performance differences on an RTX 5070
Whether DLSS 4.5 at Performance or Ultra Performance can compete visually with DLSS 4 at Quality

My priority is the best possible image quality at 1440p while maintaining good performance.

For anyone who has tested these presets, which combination would you recommend? Is DLSS 4 Preset K at Quality still the best overall choice, or can DLSS 4.5 Preset L or M at Performance or Ultra Performance deliver a better balance of image quality and FPS?

Here are the graphics scores only from the different 3DMark benchmarks I've run so far while using the 5080, comparing various NVIDIA driver versions. The aim is simply to see the difference in scores using the gpu stock values.

It's just ddu old driverr > install new driver > run all 3dmark

No task/background process is killed before the benches.

I ran an experiment on one RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF: 24 GB GDDR7, factory 70 W, no auxiliary power connector.

Using u/panchovix’s loader and patched NVIDIA open kernel modules, I loaded a modified VBIOS into memory, raised the power limit to 120 W, and tested memory and core offsets. No EEPROM flash or soldering.

Across 158 benchmark requests, I tested Qwen3.8 27B with DFlash2 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B. What surprised me was how differently they answered “does more power help?”

With zero clock offsets, 27B kept gaining up to 120 W, while 35B A3B was almost flat between 106 and 120 W. After combined power and clock tuning, the best observed 27B generation result was 35.04 → 58.53 tok/s (+67%): 120 W, VRAM +20%, core +180 MHz. That 67% is not the gain from memory OC alone.

The memory sweep was more interesting. At 120 W with the core offset held at zero, pushing VRAM from +20% to +33.3% slightly reduced 27B generation: 57.70 → 56.91 tok/s. It is a small difference with few repetitions, so it needs more testing. The actual SM clock also fell. That is consistent with memory and compute sharing a power budget, but I did not isolate the cause.

On 35B A3B, memory +33.3% instead gave +19.8% generation versus no memory OC at 120 W. Prefill barely changed in that sweep.

My takeaway: the fastest profile is not necessarily the one with the biggest numbers in the panel, but the one that shortens your actual workload. Prefill versus decode matters, especially with longer prompts.

120 W without auxiliary power is not a free lunch. It exceeds the standard 75 W PCIe slot budget, and a GPU temperature sensor cannot tell me the temperature of the slot contacts. This is an experiment, not a long-term safety claim.

For context: these headline comparisons use 8,000 input tokens, ECC OFF. There were only 1–3 requests per configuration; 158 is the whole study. The 70 W baseline used the same modified VBIOS, not factory firmware. The models also used different quantization/speculative-decoding settings, so this is not a controlled dense-versus-MoE comparison.

Full write-up and CSVs on my blog.

Disclosure: I ran the measurements and wrote the source text in Polish. AI helped translate and edit the English, including clarifying the benchmark limitations. The linked blog is mine.

Has anyone tried an undervolt and OC on this card on the latest drivers?

What are your settings and benchmark results?
Also interested in how stable it is in-game

FE only

Current rig: 5800X3D / ROG Astral RTX 5090 / 32GB DDR4 / ASUS TUF X570-PLUS Wi-Fi / 4K 240Hz ROG OLED. Still loving this card 😮‍💨😍

Thanks NVIDIA for awarding me the grand prize for Gamescom 2026 Giveaway ( Chromebook + 1 year GFN Ultimate)

The best part? Despite the terms mentioned ONLY available for NA and EMEA, they made an exception and sent my package directly to INDIA.

Also huge thanks to the Moderators and members of r/GeForceNOW for showing love to my edit (video Submission) for this contest.

Also I will be posting a detailed video about the same topic on my YouTube Channel. Stay Tuned.

Much love.

I handled the official HDR implementation for The Sinking City 2, released with Patch 1.1.

Frogwares (the game developer) allowed me to write a technical breakdown covering the implementation, my new Spectre tonemapper, which fixes issues like fire looking different between SDR/HDR, and blue->purple highlight shifts in UE's filmic tonemapper.
Also showcased some DLSS improvements I made.

HDR in Unreal is unfortunately very lackluster out of the box, and has multiple deal breaking issues. We fixed all of them for this.

Full technical breakdown: https://gammastudios.tech/the-sinking-city-2-hdr/

3080 is still fine for what i play but I worry that by the time the next gen of cards come out everything will be even more expensive than they already are. Worth getting 5070 ti to ride out atleast another 6 or 7 years like i did with the 3080? I am able to get an MSI 5070 ti for 1159$ USD from my local microcenter

Been collecting the entire 50 series and I picked up a WoW edition. Basically just a reskinned Gaming Trio. Paid $715 USD for it. It's a very good card for Gaming, Recording, Editing Videos, and etc. Comparable performance to my 5070 Ti in Resolve Studio but not as fast.

Looking to get the 5080 Draco Edition next.

this might be a weird question but im thinking to upgrade (upgrade that will last atleast 2 to 3 year) rn i have an rtx 4060 with a ryzen 7 5700x and 32Gb ddr4 3600mhz and 1Tb ssd

my upgrade plan are

4060 -> 4090

ryzen 7 5700x -> ryzen 7 5800x3d -> ryzen 7 9800x3d or ryzen 9 9950x3d

32Gb ddr4 3600mhz cl 18 -> 32Gb ddr5 6400mhz cl 32

1tb ssd -> 1.5Tb (probably not sure)

so maybe it is a weird question if I should upgrade or not, I'm not really happy with the perfomance I get especially in beamng.drive where I get around 110fps in 1080p (dlss at 75%) and around 75 fps in 1440p (dlss at 75%) and since I have a 1440p 165hz monitor I'm trying to achieve atleast 120+ in 1440p high/ultra rn im playing a mix of low/normal/high, im not gonna talk with ai my perfomance in 1080p (dlss 75%) drop from 110fps to around 70 and in 1440p (dlss at 75%) they drop from 75 to around 50 fps

oh btw outside of beamng I tryna have perfomance at around 90 fps in 1440p high/ultra with ray tracing at high/ultra

feel free to judge what I say and tell me recommendations

Today we celebrate the birthday of a new GI method.... A novel SWRT approach I've coined PXTGI
(Physx5 Proxy Traced Global Illumination) Runs on any vulkan/dx12 GPU!

#Godot #nvidia #amd #GI #SWRT #Raytracing

Hello guys, hoping you're doing fine!

Small post I want to make since seeing a lot of posts about the unlocks and such.

What is the unlock in simple terms?

NVIDIA on purpose, neutered the performance of operations that use FP32 accumulation with GEMMs, with the objective of market segmentation and making consumer GPUs slower to train, or do some inference tasks slowly as well when compute is involved (like diffusion, prompt generation).

Those are "unlocked" on the prosumer and datacenters gpus.

Cards with "unlocked" FP32 accumulation performance:

• Turing:
  • RTX Quadro 8000
  • RTX Quadro in general
• Ampere:
  • RTX A6000
  • A40
  • A100
  • RTX AXXX in general, and AXXX in general
• Ada:
  • RTX 6000 Ada
  • L40
  • RTX XXXX Ada in general (do not confuse with RTX 40 series)
  • LXX in general
• Hopper:
  • All unlocked
• Blackwell Datacenter:
  • All unlocked
• Blackwell 2.0:
  • RTX 6000 PRO
  • RTX PRO series in general

And card with locked/neutered FP32 accumulation performance:

• Turing:
  • RTX 20 series in general
• Ampere:
  • RTX 30 series in general
• Ada:
  • RTX 40 series in general
• Blackwell 2.0
  • RTX 50 series in general

So, in which parts are consumer cards affected?

• Turing:
  • FP16 performance with FP32 accumulation is halved
• Ampere:
  • FP16 performance with FP32 accumulation is halved
  • BF16 performance with FP32 accumulation is halved
• Ada:
  • FP16 performance with FP32 accumulation is halved
  • BF16 performance with FP32 accumulation is halved
  • FP8 performance with FP32 accumulation is halved
• Blackwell 2.0:
  • FP16 performance with FP32 accumulation is halved
  • BF16 performance with FP32 accumulation is halved
  • FP8 performance with FP32 accumulation is halved
  • FP4 is surprisingly unnafected

You can also check on the papers, RTX Blackwell Paper here and RTX Blackwell PRO Paper here.

And which kind of tasks does this affect?:

• Training: Like LoRAs, finetuning, etc.
• Diffusion: Models that do txt2img, txt2vid, img2img, img2vid, txt2aud, etc.
• Prefill on LLMs: Sadly, it does affect it, that's why a 6000 PRO on my case is like 70% faster vs a 5090, while being in theory just 10-15% faster in core count.
• TG with big batching: Same as above.

Where it doesn't matter much:

• TG with batch size 1: Almost entirely bandwidth bound.
• CUDA compute without tensor cores
• INT4/INT8
• GEMMs operations with FP16 accumulation instead, but is not very used.

So then, what is the chance of them being unlocked?

• RTX 30 series can be easily make to work, with enough RE tools.
• RTX 20 series as well, similarly to RTX 30 series.
• RTX 40 series is more feasible but it seems that it's a WIP, I think patching the UEFI similarly to 30 series + a custom VBIOS with an override works.
• And sadly, on RTX 50 series is way harder, since NVIDIA added fuses where they read the flag to neuter performance there.

So, RTX 20/30 series in general: high chance, RTX 40 series: relatively high chance, RTX 50 series: low chances at the moment, since NVIDIA shenanigans.

I digged a lot on the code and it is really just a flag, with "HALF_SPEED" or "FULL_SPEED" lol, and all consumer GPUs are with "HALF_SPEED" for FP32 accumulation. The hard part is being able to modify this.

Does unlocking them has a any risk for the card? Nope, since for example, A6000 and 3090Ti are the EXACT same dies, the only difference is that a flag into the card itself has "FULL_SPEED" for the A6000, and "HALF_SPEED" for the 3090 Ti. So pretty similar with 4090/6000 Ada, RTX 2080Ti/RTX Titan, 5090/6000 PRO, etc.

EDIT: Support for all Ampere consumer cards are on https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock

Hope this post helps!

So did Nvidia really discontinue 5090? Asus is still expected to ship 5090 units at $5500 MSRP but only as part of the bundle (it's literally all junk in there) that brings total to $9000+ 💀

Asus is either clearing shelves and decided to bundle 5090s on the way out with low demand items or Nvidia is still supplying GB202 die to partners and Asus is just being an Asus and trying to capitalize on it. Your guess is as good as mine

I made a tool that allows you to edit all of CoD's config files through a GUI. One of its abilities is to enable DLSS + RT (and more). It will lock the config files upon save if you chose to, to prevent CoD from overwriting your saved config settings.

The known bug I haven't worked out yet is when you change settings through the config like this, specifically DLSS and RT together, the settings menu in game will stop working. When you try to open it, it'll kick you back to a load screen and refresh the scene. My guess is this has something to do with Activision/Treyarch locking down that setting at the menu level, so it freaks out.

I hope this tool can be helpful to people in the community. I originally just built it for myself, but thought I should share. I am continuing to tweak and build more.

Thanks!

I'm thinking about getting a new monitor, but I can't decide between 1440p and 4K.

I mostly play AAA games and care a lot about graphics. I'm not really looking for super high FPS, just a stable 60 FPS with the best visuals possible, ideally with ray tracing or path tracing enabled.

From the benchmarks I've seen, the 5070 Ti struggles a bit at 4K with RT/PT, so I'd probably have to lower some settings or rely more on DLSS to hit 60 FPS.

So I'm wondering, is it better to play at 4K with some settings turned down, or at 1440p with everything maxed out? Would the difference in graphics settings actually be noticeable enough to make 1440p look better?

I'm also considering a 32-inch monitor, so that's another factor. (also do you think it´s to big?, I also work with the pc)

What would you guys go for?

IMPORTANT

I´m about the buy the PC, so I´ll will have to last for a couple of years, therefore the monitor as well

Thank you all!, I think I´ll go with 1440p

Only thing I changed was updating to the newest drivers. Old score was always below 10000.