So Nvidia generated as much buzz as they could in January 2025 with their new line-up: the RTX 5000 series. It was all about DLSS4, more CUDA cores, a breeze of AI, and frame generation to boost everything running your games, with the RTX 5090 as the flagship GPU to win you all over.

All good and well, but the launch did not really go as expected:

• Ooops! Some GPUs are missing up to 8 ROPs (thanks to TechPowerUp) leading to several percents of performance loss in games.
• There was almost no stock for anything at launch
• The performance increase from the RTX40 series to the RTX50 series is not huge across the board, which is why Nvidia put so much emphasis this time around on framegen instead of raw performance comparison…
• Nvidia is using deceptive naming compared to what they used to do for previous generations - for example the RTX5080 should rather be called a RTX5070

In light of such a massive fuck-up that has trickled down through all your channels during January and February, it’s not surprise to see the results of the following poll, asking for your impression of the new line-up from Nvidia:

Ignoring the ones who missed the news, the overall sentiment is massively negative. Nvidia is not fooling anyone this time around, despite the jeans and leather jacket of old. While the RTX5090 as a flagship is probably an impressive piece of hardware, the whole rest of the line-up feels like a poorman rehash of what they have with barely any innovation and improvement. No wonder they needed to focus so much on creating frames out of nothing, because the hardware certainly cannot deliver those alone.

In such a situation, you’d think it would be the perfect time for AMD and Intel to strike back… if they were not completely drunk and asleep at the wheel.

So for now you have to deal with the green company that barely apologizes for anything. We propped the moat, now we have to live with that moat.

So much for the Nvidia Way.