r/nvidia

saving money to hopefully buy a prebuilt setup in the coming months, might be longer if holiday sales don’t hit as well as they used to. i want to play games like Apex Legends and CS2 and probably some other stuff in between like Overwatch and Siege at 1440p and 240hz. i might dabble in a bit of single player story games maybe a few more Cyberpunk 2077 play throughs, RDR2, but im not too interested in the ray tracing and pathtracing stuff. mostly just play it on high graphics. all the shooters will be optimized at lowest graphics + settings to maximize frame rate. which gpu can handle these games at the stable rate that i desire? considered i also have a CPU that can handle the respective GPU that wont bottleneck

your CPU bound in Oblivion Remastered on ultra setttings and ultra hardware lumen RT on a RTX4070.... and now I suspect it could help in any case where CPU bound.? Yall experts would know better, but ya. I noticed turning on the hardware lumen RT didn't really drop my FPS while outside, but it would increase my latency by 15-20ms and drop my GPU util down to like 70 percent. So I said to myself "self". and my self "ya?". and i said "looks like we are CPU bound now. lets try frame gen just to see. it might give our CPU some breathing room." and myself was like "say less fam". Frame gen didn't even turn on the first reboot until forcing preset B in Nvidia app. But lo and behold on the 2nd reboot it came on. Not only did i get nearly double the FPS but I got those 15-20ms of latency back too! and the GPU util went back up to high 90s.

Might common sense for some of yall, but I've been at this PC gaming for a solid 2 months now and just found out :D Surprised I hadn't come across it before. Does it work in most cases when CPU bound or was this just some isoloated Oblivion Remasterd ish?

Using smooth motion for Rust - was sceptic about the latency, but that shit is black magic.
Completely changed my enjoyment for rust.

5700x3d 5070ti 16gb RAM

I was selected for associate prompt engineering for nvidia via pay roll of randstad 2 months ago but i have not gotten any joining letter till date and my hr saying hiring is on freeze anybody have any idea what’s going on?

I recently got a rtx 5050 laptop. But when it arrived while seeing the specs i stumbled across it only has 55w tgp .

(ik big mistake on my part for not checking properly but i assumed rtx 5050 generally has around 100 and it wasnt mentioned anyhwere about the tgp)

But when i ran benchmarks it showed clock speed of 2400Mhz which is not for far from the max speed of rtx 5050(laptop).

So my question is it still worth it or did i get scammed and i should try to return it (which won't be very easy)

So I tried Bazzite with my nvidia card a while back, and although I prefer windows for a variety of reasons, Bazzite always felt “smoother” than windows, despite both being locked to my 60hz monitor. I researched for a long time and the most likely difference is due to gamescope using a variety of methods to present its frames. After a while, I found what I wanted and I have now matched, if not exceeded the smoothness Bazzite gives my PC on Windows.

For anyone who’s using a Blackwell RTX 50 series card, it seems the best frame limiter to use at the moment is the Nvidia App frame limiter over RTSS.

I’ve used RTSS (both async and front edge sync) and Nvidia’s frame limiter is just straight up another level.

To my understanding, Nvidia has implemented a hardware flip metering block into the new cards, which allows it to process the frames to the exact refresh rate of the display. I don’t know enough to go into details like MsBetweenPresents and MsBetweenDisplayChange, and the frame pacing can’t be seen when using RTSS’s overlay, but the difference in visual clarity is easy enough for me to see. I’ve also checked with LLM and they confirm that is much better pacing through the Nvidia frame limiter.

I’m not sure how many people know this as Nvidia hasn’t seemed to advertise it but try it out after disabling RTSS and you may feel the difference. Latency is also incredibly minimal.

Hope this helps anyone who had any issues with frame pacing.

Edit: so after a comment I double checked and older cards than 50 series still get an upgraded frame limiter due to recent updated drivers. Apparently it can be comparable to latent sync from special k, but i havent tested it and i am unsure how. If someone can that would be great, as a possible alternative to RTSS for frame pacing. On top of this, for older cards this is driver level implementation only, but still hooks deeply into the windows DXGI. 50 series however have a physical silicon block that processes these, so results would be better on there.

This is Leroy Sikkes's talk from GodotCon about the work he's doing at NVIDIA on Path-Tracing in Godot.

It wasn't posted earlier due to a miscommunication; however, Emilio resolved the issue and got the talk posted today.

Hello!

I finally built a new pc and got a 5000 series card. I come from an rx6800, and I used to tweak settings for each game, frame limiters, anti lag, and even the driver level frame gen (did wonders on new vegas with the dxvk mod!)

Now i opened the nvidia app and my head spun from the settings(given that i didn't spend a lot of time on it, i didn't have much free time)

So, what to know? Dlss models? Is there a driver frame gen that i can enable on all games? What should i tweak and when?

I thank the good soul that will take the time to write me a brief guide!

I'm an "expert" user btw, just very new to the nvidia world, the last one i had was a 1050 2gb lmao

So, RTX 5060 is my first RT GPU since last GPU 1080ti. Never had to use DLSS and it’s my first experience with that. For example I’m playing BF6 and my display is 27”@1440p. I’m enabling DLSS 4.5 in settings and set upscaling to ultra quality, while game resolution at 1080p. And it looks so blurry like 1080p without any upscaling. Am I doing something wrong?

My story with Nvidia goes back a long way. I'm 36 now, and I've owned quite a few Nvidia GPUs over the years. Right now I'm using an RTX 5070 Ti.

A while ago, I decided to try something different and bought an RX 9070 XT. Unfortunately, it didn't work out for me. I was getting game stutters, random crashes, and other issues across multiple games. I spent a lot of time trying different fixes, but nothing really solved the problem.

In the end, I sold my Red Devil 9070 XT on eBay and bought an ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti instead. Since switching back to Nvidia, everything has been running perfectly. No crashes, no stuttering just smooth gameplay in every game I've played.

What's interesting is that two of my friends also tried the 9070 XT, and they ran into similar problems with crashes and stuttering in several games. Eventually, they gave up and switched to RTX 5080s.

I've also noticed there are a lot of Reddit posts every day about AMD driver and technical issues. Of course, that's just my personal experience, and I know plenty of people have good experiences with AMD. But after trying it myself, I don't think I'll be buying another AMD GPU anytime soon. For me, Nvidia has always been the more reliable choice, and that's what I'll be sticking with.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some advice before I do anything risky.

I have a Gainward GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Python III 16GB.

My card:

• GPU: GB206-300-A1
• Board: PG152 SKU 10
• Memory: 16GB Samsung GDDR7
• 1x 8-pin PCIe power
• 3x DisplayPort + 1x HDMI
• Stock power limit: 180W (no positive adjustment)
• Current VBIOS: 98.06.4E.00.1B
• GPU-Z Board ID: N15519

I'm trying to increase the power limit to around 198-200W.

I found the ZOTAC RTX 5060 Ti AMP 16GB VBIOS, which has:

• GB206-300-A1
• PG152 SKU 10
• 16GB Samsung GDDR7
• 1x 8-pin
• 3x DP + 1x HDMI
• 180W target / 198W max power limit
• VBIOS: 98.06.1F.00.E1

As far as I can tell, the hardware looks extremely similar, but the Subvendor and Board ID are different.

My questions are:

1. Has anyone successfully cross-flashed a Gainward RTX 5060 Ti with a Zotac AMP VBIOS?
2. Is PG152 SKU 10 enough to assume the PCB is basically the same, or is that not sufficient?
3. Does anyone know the Board ID of the Zotac AMP VBIOS?
4. Is there a better 198W/200W VBIOS that would be more compatible with my Gainward card?

I have already backed up my original BIOS and I won't flash anything until I'm reasonably sure it's safe.

Any advice or experience would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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I recently upgraded from 1440p to 4K monitor, and I have to mention one thing and see if you agree. Upscaling is amazing on a 4K monitor - specifically talking about DLSS4.5. It works so good in fact that I cant really see much of any differences between the DLSS modes.

I compared them in Cyberpunk which doesnt have that many tiny details but it has the best ray/path tracing and contrast and overall it is one of the most realistic games today, and I saw zero difference between DLSS Performance and better modes, doesnt matter if i used Preset L or Ray Reconstruction. There was literally no point trying anything better than Performance mode. I tried to stare at the monitor from one feet and compare, i tried to zoom into high resolution images, i tried to compare high resolution videos side by side, i couldnt see any differences.

Even the Ultra Performance mode looks really good, there is a slight loss of details compared to Performance, but it is still perfectly usable, and you get like +35% fps over the Performance mode, it is amazing. I then compared the modes in Kingdom come 2 which is full of very detailed foliage, and i was only able to spot tiny differences between DLSS Performance and Quality when I really really focused up close, the grass and leafs looked slightly more detailed but honestly if you kept showing me one or the other mode and i had to quess which it is, i would fail, i only noticed the differences with direct comparison (side by side high res images, or quickly switching between back and forth).

This definitely wasnt the case on my 1440p monitor, there were very noticeable differences between the modes, anything below DLSS Quality was unusable for me and even DLSS Quality looked so blurry to me that I completely switched to 2.25x DLDSR + DLSS Performance (the difference is that it upscales from 1080p to 4K and then downsamples all those extra details back to native, whereas regular DLSS Quality upscales from 960p -> native).

Actually I would go as far as saying that I would rather game on a 4K monitor with DLSS Ultra Performance than 1440p monitor with DLAA, i have both monitors right next to each other and the pixel density is simply everything, upscaling has gotten so good that you no longer need to render in high resolution. I really think that if you have a gpu that has 16+GB vram and it can run DLSS4.5, always pair it with a 4K monitor even if you have to run DLSS Ultra Performance to get desired fps. Maybe even 12GB gpus are fine, i honestly dont know how many games need more vram. And it will get even better in a month once the new DLSS4.5 Ray Reconstruction models become available, and then DLSS5 in autumn.

One other thing I want to mention is how much better HDR looks with DLSS4.5, it doesnt try to hide and wash out tiny bright details like other upscalers, instead it enhances that, and stuff like sparks from fire or fireflies at night look amazing on a 1000 nit HDR monitor.