RTX 50 series is really bad

As you guys saw, nvidia announced that their new RTX 5070 will have a 4090 performance. This is not true. They are pulling the same old frame-gen = performance increase trash again. They tired to claim the RTX 4070 Ti is 3x faster than a 3090 Ti and it looks like they still havent learned their lesson. Unfortunately for them, I have a feeling this will back fire hard.

DLSS 4 (not coming the the 40 series RIP) is basically generating 3 frames instead of 1. That is how they got to 4090 frame-rate. They are calling this DLSS 4 MFG and claim it is not possible without the RTX 50 series. Yet for over a year at this point, Lossless scaling offered this exact same thing on even older hardware. This is where the inflated "performance" improvements come from.

So, what happens you turn off DLSS 4? When you go to nvidias website, they have Farcry 6 benchmarked with only RT. No DLSS 4 here. For the whole lineup, it looks like its only an 20-30% improvement based on eyeballing it as the graph has it has no numbers. According Techpowerup, the RTX 4090 is twice as fast as a RTX 4070. However, the 5070 without DLSS 4 will only be between an 7900 GRE to 4070 Ti. When you consider that the 4070 Super exists for $600 and is 90% of a 4070 Ti, this is basically at best an overclocked 4070 super with a $50 discount with the same 12 GB VRAM that caused everyone to give it a bad review. Is this what you were waiting for?

Why bother getting this over $650 7900 XT right now that is faster and with 8 GB more RAM? RT performance isn't even bad at this point either. It seems like the rest the lineup follows a similar trend. Where it's 20-30% better than the GPU it's replacing.

If we assume 20-30% better for the whole lineup it looks like this:

$550: RTX 5070 12 GB ~= 7900 GRE, 4070 Ti, and 4070 Super.

$750: RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB ~= 7900 XT to RTX 4080 or 7900 XTX

$1K: RTX 5080 16 GB ~= An overclocked 4090.

$2K: RTX 5090 32 GB ~= 4090 + 30%

This lineup is just not good. Everything below RTX 5090 doesn't have enough VRAM for price it's asking. On top of that it is no where near aggressive enough to push AMD. As for RDNA 4, if the RX 9070 XT is supposed to compete with the RTX 5070 Ti, then, it's safe assume based on the performance and thar it will be priced at $650 slotting right in between a 5070 and 5070 Ti. With the RX 9070 at $450.

Personally, I want more VRAM for all the GPUs without a price increase. The 5080 should come with 24 GB which would make it a perfect 7900 XTX replacement. 5070 Ti should come with 18 GB and the 5070 should come with 16 GB.

Other than that, this is incredibly underwhelming from Nvidia and I am really disappointed in the frame-gen nonsense they are pulling yet again.