Managed to grab an Asus Astral RTX5090 without bundle but cost slightly more. I am letting go my 2 months old MSI RTX5080 16G SUPRIM SOC at MSRP price. Only COD in Penang.
Despite the abysmal state of the GPU market, I think the 16GB 5060 Ti might be the best card out of the 50 series, assuming the MSRP 'sticks' Reasonable performance uplift, competent RT and feature set, along with a substantially larger memory bandwidth should make this card somewhat more tolerable than the 4060Ti
Of course, distributors and retailers will try their best to capitalize on the FOMO by bundling it with lots of 'goodies'
This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Apr 15 2025, 10:51 PM
Despite the abysmal state of the GPU market, I think the 16GB 5060 Ti might be the best card out of the 50 series, assuming the MSRP 'sticks' Reasonable performance uplift, competent RT and feature set, along with a substantially larger memory bandwidth should make this card somewhat more tolerable than the 4060Ti
Of course, distributors and retailers will try their best to capitalize on the FOMO by bundling it with lots of 'goodies'
Extra VRAM only helps in frame smoothness, it doesnt add to the FPS significantly which is why the current xx60TI family 16GB version FPS dont differ much from 8GB. And the main problem with them isnt whether 16 or 8GB buffer but the gen on gen perf leap isnt there to fully utilise that 16GB. 4060TI 16GB has disappointing low 10% step up from 3060Ti
And many predicting 5060TI will just have 10-15% gap with 4060TI. This is the main issue, not VRAM size.
So where does the 75W from the PCIE slot come in? Is that thing using a total of 695-ish Watts?
There was a reviewer i think J2Z or Derbauer or another, cant recall, that did power usage tracking and found that Blackwell somehow prioritise drawing power from 12VHPWR even over the 600W limit, but will use very little from PCIE slot not even close to its 75W limit.