News Nvidia's 50-series laptop launch looks bumpy: slipping ship dates, game crashes, and delayed review units

[Admin]

Nvidia's RTX 50-series "Blackwell" GPU launch for laptops has been rocky, with delays and driver issues.

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[Mindstab Thrull]

Half of what I'm seeing reported feels like Intel's Alchemist growing pains when it came out. But this is Nvidia and GPU's have been their bread and butter for decades. Come on guys, get with the program!

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Biggest thing against them though is the clearance sales on the RTX 4000 series. Granted you won't get the ability to generate more artificial frames, but it's a very worthy tradeoff.

 

[JTWrenn]

I wish Nvidia would be more open about all of this. Starting to feel like they rushed Blackwell on general to keep the AI pump running and gaming gpus paid the price

 

[usertests]

I wish Nvidia would be more open about all of this. Starting to feel like they rushed Blackwell on general to keep the AI pump running and gaming gpus paid the price

That's the privilege of overwhelming market dominance.

I'm not even mad. Why would they prioritize gaming GPUs when the same silicon can make 10-30x more revenue as an AI accelerator, and they have to sell them quickly before the bubble pops? The only reason is to maintain some level of goodwill so they can pivot back to gaming after the bubble pops, but gamers have demonstrated they will withstand any level of abuse from Nvidia and come back for more. If they lose a significant chunk of mindshare, they can use the untold billions they made on AI to compete hard with AMD (Intel is not even a competitor).

 

[M0rtis]

The 5090 laptop series kind of proves that the architecture improvements are minor for this generation. Both laptop chips - 4090 and 5090 use the 4080 and 5080 dies respectively. Both are capped at 175W power draw which is under the limit for their desktop variants i.e. both laptop GPUs are performing under their capabilities due to power limitations.

The benchmarks I have seen seem to put the 5090 5-10% of the 4090 which is what the performance uplift due to architecture improvements indicate, while their desktop counterparts can draw more power for a slightly larger performance uplift over the previous gen.

While Im not a fan of the MFG on the desktop, I kind of think its nice to have on a laptop where a smaller screen and inability to upgrade makes frame gen more viable.

 

[usertests]

The 5090 laptop series kind of proves that the architecture improvements are minor for this generation.

The best thing about this generation is the support for 3 GB GDDR7 modules, which have only been used in the laptop 5090 but will hopefully make their way into some desktop GPUs. No reason to bother with 128-bit 8 GB cards if 12 GB is coming relatively soon.

 

[terroralpha]

The 5090 laptop series kind of proves that the architecture improvements are minor for this generation. Both laptop chips - 4090 and 5090 use the 4080 and 5080 dies respectively. Both are capped at 175W power draw which is under the limit for their desktop variants i.e. both laptop GPUs are performing under their capabilities due to power limitations.

The benchmarks I have seen seem to put the 5090 5-10% of the 4090 which is what the performance uplift due to architecture improvements indicate, while their desktop counterparts can draw more power for a slightly larger performance uplift over the previous gen.

While Im not a fan of the MFG on the desktop, I kind of think its nice to have on a laptop where a smaller screen and inability to upgrade makes frame gen more viable.

there are ZERO improvements. the 5080 and 4080 super have similar core counts and perform almost exactly the same. the small lead the 5080 gets in some scenarios is due to the memory advantage of GDDR7. if you downclock the memory on the 5080 to around the same bandwidth as the 4080 super, they become the same card

i've been in the build your own PC hobby since the geforce 4 days. this is the second time there have been zero performance uplifts outside of the halo card. ironically, the same happened when i first got into the hobby. lower end geforce 4 cards were basically rebranded geforce 2 cards