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This review of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card benchmarks the performance of the new GPU, particularly with the 5070 Ti vs. the 5080, 4080 Super, 4070 Ti Super, AMD RX 7900 XTX, and similar cards. Benchmarking includes gaming performance tests of the best video cards in 2025, some revisits of older cards like the RTX 3070 and GTX 1070, and power consumption and efficiency tests. The GPU market is in an era of absurdity now, reminiscent of 2020. Price means nothing.

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The below CPU is used in our GPU test benches.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Do Not Buy the RTX 5070 Ti
04:03 - Unhinged GN Store Ad
05:19 - Basic Specs, Pricing
07:35 - FFXIV Dawntrail 4K Benchmarks
08:49 - FFXIV Dawntrail 1440p 5070 Ti Benchmarks
09:46 - FFXIV 1080p GPU Comparison 2025
10:16 - Black Myth Wukong 4K Best GPUs 2025
11:15 - Black Myth Wukong 1440p RTX 5070 Ti vs 7900 XTX
12:00 - Black Myth Wukong 1080p Video Card Benchmark
12:38 - Starfield 4K Graphics Card Comparison 2025
13:08 - Starfield 1440p The More You Buy
13:53 - Starfield 1080p Lame Results
14:20 - Dragon's Dogma 2 4K 5070 Ti vs 5080
14:53 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p Benchmarks
15:19 - Draogn's Dogma 2 1080p Comparison
15:38 - Resident Evil 4 4K Benchmarks
16:04 - Resident Evil 4 1440p Testing
16:26 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 4K Upscaling
16:54 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 1080p Upscaling
17:25 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 4K Max
17:54 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p Max
18:14 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 1080p Max
18:28 - Ray Tracing: Resident Evil 4 4K Upscaling
18:51 - Ray Tracing: Resident Evil 4 1440p Upscaling
19:07 - Power and Efficiency: FFXIV 4K
19:34 - Efficiency: FFXIV 1440p
19:48 - Efficiency: Black Myth Wukong 1080p
20:03 - Efficiency: F1 24 4K RT
20:21 - DLSS and MFG Are to Sell Cards
21:52 - Thermals and Noise
22:24 - Acoustics and Frequency Spectrum
23:31 - Conclusion: Reality is Absurd

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In this video, we talk about the fake prices on NVIDIA's RTX 50 series, including the RTX 5090, 5080, and apparently, the inbound 5070 Ti. We'll see about that one soon. The video covers not only the scalper situation, but the first-party sellers forcing attachment of unwanted, old inventory with NVIDIA's GPUs.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM
03:27 - The Aftermath
05:14 - Time in Stock - Pointless to Try
06:09 - GPU Model Time in Stock
06:49 - Prices
07:44 - Terrible Combo Deals and FOMO
10:43 - Holding GPUs Hostage for Attachment
14:35 - Rising Prices and Fake MSRP
19:38 - Insane Scalper Market and Scams
20:13 - Some Retailers Don't Have Units
21:14 - Conclusion

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This livestream features the NVIDIA RTX 5090 (specifically, the ASUS RTX 5090 Astral OC model) with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU. We're overclocking the ASUS 5090 Astral on air, but we've shunt modded the GPU to bypass power limits. Today, we're benchmarking in 3D Mark Steel Nomad and Port Royal -- and just for some extra fun, we're pointing a high-end thermal camera at the back of the GPU and the 12VHPWR cables. Maybe it'll melt. Or maybe we'll get a record. This isn't meant to be an overclocking guide, but because we're OCing on air today instead of LN2, it's all take-home information that may help. The biggest challenge will be software.

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Timestamps by Comanso!
TIMESTAMPS

00:00:00 - Intro, Thermal Camera, Benchmarks
00:12:42 - The 5090 Astral and Steel Nomad
00:18:58 - Kicking Off, White Board, and LN2 Pots
00:21:39 - Baseline Scores + Setting up Thermal Imaging
00:36:12 - First Overclock Score
00:39:01 - Shunt Mod Explanation and Power Limit Bypass
00:43:25 - Scores Rolling In
00:52:09 - Major Port Royal Milestone
01:02:30 - 40K in Port Royal
01:29:12 - A JayzTwoCents Challenge
01:32:34 - Big Steel Nomad Improvement (5th place)
01:48:07 - Steel Nomad 16K Barrier Broken
02:05:01 - "Cool" LN2 Transfer and Some Ventilation Safety Talk
02:07:32 - Port Royal 40,672
02:22:26 - Joe's Gigabyte OC Incident
02:28:47 - Cliff Hanger Steel Nomad Score for #1 (16,240)
02:39:37 - Whiteboard score overall recap
02:59:54 - Talking About Automatic LN2 Cooling Systems (Roboclocker)
03:04:38 - Things Get Serious (venting LN2 vapor into the 5090)
03:24:47 - WORLD RECORD Steel Nomad (16,240 was valid!)
03:27:53 - Winding Down and Superchats
03:36:22 - Final Whiteboard Recap

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Video: Andrew Coleman

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In hardware news this week, we're talking about the burned 12VHPWR (and 12V-2x6) cables and connectors on the NVIDIA RTX 50 series GPUs now, including the 5090s. Additionally, Cyberpower has responded to GN's review, AMD announced the announcement of its previously announced RX 9070 GPUs, Meta is allegedly pirating content for AI, and the 5060 Ti is rumored to exist.

Watch our "12VHPWR Is a Dumpster Fire" deep-dive into its chaotic formation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y36LMS5y34A
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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Recapping the Week
01:25 - GN Fan Tester is Live!
06:25 - AMD Announces RX 9000 Announcement Again
08:35 - Cyberpower Responds to GN
14:39 - 5060, 5060 Ti Leaks and Rumors
17:10 - RTX 5090s Are Burning
21:12 - Rumor: Potential New Intel CEO
23:05 - AMD on X3D, AM4, AM5 Split
25:06 - Newegg Says Tariffs Raising GPU Prices
26:18 - US Imposes Tariff on Steel and Aluminum
27:30 - Rumor of 9900X3D and 9950X3D Prices
28:19 - Meta Allegedly Illegally Torrented Copyrighted Books
32:22 - Zotac: GPU Sales Dominated by Scalpers and Bots
34:04 - NVIDIA Investigating 50-Series Issues
34:31 - Sony PSN Extended Outage

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This is our first testing we've ever published with our fan testing machine that we bought several years ago. This process will be long and gradual as we build the knowledge required to fully tackle fan comparison charts, eventually leading to BIGGER BAR BETTER, which is all anyone wants in life. For now, we're beginning the exploratory process of publishing experimental results while we study how best to present the data and structure the language describing the results. We're excited for this and have more planned in the coming few weeks! This is the debut of our GamersNexus Fan Tester, and it's starting with case mesh porosity benchmarking.

This benchmark looks at the impact on airflow and performance characteristics (at a top level) from different porosities of mesh front panel. It'll help us better understand one of the key components for a good high-airflow computer case.

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Noctua interview discussing beat frequency phenomenon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ia_FZcthQ
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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - It's Time
06:50 - Fans are Complicated
08:26 - The First Test: Case Mesh Porosity
11:03 - Why This Test is First
12:24 - THE MACHINE
25:59 - Explaining the First Tests
26:42 - MASSIVE DISCLAIMER
28:16 - Case Porosity Benchmark
32:35 - Fan vs Mesh Panel Benchmark
35:53 - Real-World Examples (Thermal Case Tests)
38:31 - Conclusion and Plans

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The Zotac RTX 5080 Solid OC is in for review and testing. Our benchmarks include overclocking the RTX 5080 Solid, thermal testing, noise levels and acoustics, a tear-down of the Zotac card, and more. Unfortunately, the biggest immediate killer of the card is its value, especially with its seemingly arbitrary and variable day-to-day pricing that makes it anywhere from 10% to 30% more expensive than NVIDIA's baseline MSRP for the RTX 5080 GPUs. That alone makes the card lose any recommendation from us (to save you the time), but we'll still go through all the benchmarking and testing for anyone who may end up considering buying one of these anyway.

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AMD RX 7900 XTX on Newegg: https://howl.link/mtvba9dgdf7x4
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NVIDIA RTX 5090 on Newegg: https://howl.link/mcb343fapkti6
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AMD RX 7900 XT on Newegg: https://howl.link/33qsc2445zr2y
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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - TLDW Don't Buy
02:54 - Zotac 5080 Solid Basics
03:59 - Marketing
05:37 - Tear-Down and Disassembly
10:10 - Removing the Heatsink
15:08 - Thermals vs RTX 5080 Founders Edition
16:30 - Frequency Validation
17:02 - Noise Levels and Acoustics
18:04 - VBIOS Frequency Differences
18:15 - VBIOS Thermal Differences
18:35 - Gaming Benchmarks vs Founders Edition
20:00 - Overclocking in Steel Nomad
21:14 - Overclocking Gaming Performance
22:43 - Overclock Frequency Chart
23:43 - Conclusion

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Hardware news this week talks about NVIDIA's response to our PresentMon criticism, AMD's impending launch of the RX 9000 GPUs (including the 9070 and 9070 XT), RTX 50 series price surges, ASUS' Q-Release issues, and more.

Find our ASUS Q-Release lab report here: https://gamersnexus.net/news/lab-report-asus-q-release-pcie-mechanism-damage-claims
Watch our Paper Launch video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMd2WHKnceI
Watch our DLSS4 video with the PresentMon comments here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh1FHR9fkJk

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Recapping the Week
01:24 - NVIDIA Responds to PresentMon Criticism
07:33 - AMD to Launch 9000 Series GPUs in March
10:33 - 50-Series GPUs Encountering Stability Issues
13:30 - AMD Beats Intel at Data Centers for First Time
14:56 - New Tariffs May Lead to Expensive Hardware
19:31 - Google Now Open to Using AI for Weapons
20:45 - ASUS Q-Release Issues
28:43 - ASUS Releases 50 Series Pricing, Then Changes It

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We review Cyberpower's pre-built gaming PC with an AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPU in it. The system has all the right components, a competitive price, and a horrible cooling solution that throttles the CPU by 200 MHz all-core. It's an unfortunate story as old as our first reviews of Cyberpower's pre-built PCs. The 9800X3D overheats at 95 degrees Celsius under the 240mm liquid cooler, which we think is partly related to poor contact. The case is also deceptively closed off, despite appearing relatively open. We were disappointed by this one, as everything else about it was excellently done. OS install was clean, the BIOS was right, the drivers were recent, the build was overall good.

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NVIDIA RTX 5090 on Newegg: https://howl.link/mcb343fapkti6
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AMD RX 7900 XT on Newegg: https://howl.link/33qsc2445zr2y
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AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPU on Newegg: https://howl.link/o17puhoclww0v
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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - The Cyberpower PC Pre-Built
02:18 - The 9800X3D Pre-Built
05:36 - The Specs
07:30 - Tear-Down
12:40 - Cooler Removal
15:05 - Thermals for CPU
16:41 - Throttling
17:24 - Thermals for GPU, RAM
17:51 - Acoustic Testing and Noise Levels
18:36 - Power Consumption at the Wall
19:08 - Surprisingly Good BIOS, Windows Install
20:48 - Packaging, Accessories
22:50 - Conclusion

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In hardware news this week, Intel launches a strangely shaped CPU IHS, AMD has a vulnerability exposed by ASUS by accident, NVIDIA's stock drop plummets, the 50 series continues to be a retail myth, and the Steam Brick mod gives us something positive and fun for the week. News has been busy the last few weeks!

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Recapping the Week
01:05 - RTX 50 Series Doesn't Exist
07:01 - RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5070 Rumors
07:42 - Strange 230F IHS
10:40 - AMD Security Vulnerability in Microcode Leaked by ASUS
13:10 - Ayaneo 3 Modular Handheld
15:45 - Steam Brick - Modded Steam Deck
17:01 - NVIDIA's Massive Stock Drop
19:05 - Steve's Beef with Costco's Bagels
19:30 - Back to the Stock Drop
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We talk about NVIDIA's DLSS 4.0 multi-frame generation (MFG), NVIDIA's weird decisions on testing tools, differences in transformer vs. CNN (convolutional neural network) models, benchmark performance, and generated frames. Frame generation commonly gets referred to as "artificial" frames, "generated" frames, or commonly online, "fake frames." This video delves into the topic of NVIDIA's MFG, which is absolutely worth learning about, but also digs deep into its decisions to take ancient PresentMon code and then write what we think is a misleading review guide about how it works, updating it seemingly after we raised the alarm in discussions.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - NVIDIA's Misleading Premise
03:06 - DLSS 4.0 Explanation
04:00 - Patrick Explains DLSS
05:06 - OMFG
05:46 - Patrick Explains Frame Generation
06:47 - Multi-Frame Generation (MFG)
08:01 - Misrepresentations, Key Misunderstandings
10:55 - DLSS 4 Differences
12:43 - THE PROBLEM with NVIDIA's Actions
19:20 - What This Means
20:22 - Image Quality, Transformer vs CNN Model
22:07 - Benchmark Methodology
24:38 - Steve Loses His Mind
26:00 - Dragon Age Veilguard New vs Old Frame Gen Model
26:55 - Hogwarts Legacy Press vs Public Build Validation
27:38 - Hogwarts Legacy New vs Old Frame Generation Model
28:16 - Convolutional Neural Network vs Transformer
29:38 - Cyberpunk Ray Reconstruction
32:03 - Frame Pacing
33:44 - Conclusion

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Steve Burke: Host, Additional Writing
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