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So my 5080 just died and sent it in for rma. Msi said not under warranty due to oxidation damage.. ask for cost of a refurb or repair and they said $1200 lmao so my question is, buy a new 5080 if I can’t get mine repaired outside or downgrade to a 5070ti? I play in 4k and 99.99% single player games. I don’t mind frame gen at 2x at the moment. I usually play at max or near max settings with ray tracing and path if available. I suppose I can drop some sliders if I go the 5070ti route.

Hey guys,

I recently bought an RTX 5060 and I’ve been wondering if I should enable ReBAR in BIOS or just leave it off.

I’ve seen a lot of mixed opinions about it. Some people say it gives free performance, others say it can hurt frametimes or input latency in competitive games, so now I’m not really sure what to do.

I only really play competitive/esports games:

• Valorant
• CS2
• Overwatch 2
• Aimlabs
• KovaaK’s
• osu!
• Minecraft

I play everything on the absolute lowest settings because I care more about high FPS and responsiveness than graphics.

For someone like me, is ReBAR actually worth enabling or is it better to leave disabled?

Would also appreciate if anyone here tested it specifically in esports titles and noticed any FPS, frametime, or latency differences.

Thanks :)

Got a 5090 for $2100 equivalency by trading a 4090 laptop with 4tb and 64gb ddr5 I got for $1300 and $800 cash. I've been going back and forth between keeping the 5090 or reselling it at $3450 to make it so I got my 2nd laptop I bought for $1300 (same config) for free.

My reasoning for keeping the 5090 is that it'll retain value better than my 5080. Im assuming if 60 series drops, 5080 prices will drop like the 4080 models did, but 5090 will be somewhat static around $2400, $2000 bare minimum, like the 4090. Also I use blender so the extra power will be nice.

However, I love my aorus master 5080 since it perfectly fits the aesthetics of my PC, and it has an LCD screen I can display my beloved Yorha A2. That's basically it.

So convince me why I should keep my 5090 so I can, since I really want the "best" but my yearn for aesthetics is contesting this.

So I have a non fully supported G-SYNC AOC VA monitor and it's always been quite a struggle for the Maniac that I am to find the propre tweaks to have good framerate, while keeping a décent framepacing on my 4070

G-SYNC is enabled (but "G-SYNC compatibility is NOT ticket), 144Hz so FPS capped to 137, with Low Latency ON (not ULTRA.

ANd if I choosed V-SYNC ON, I had a decent (just decent) framepacing but I felt that it sacrificed some FPS and 1%Lows were "around " 72.

If I choosed Fast or OFF, 1Lows would rise more freely above 72, but it was hardly keeping up with the FPS, very unstable and a bit a tearing but I choose to stick to it.

Well, since this fix in the latest drivers, Forza Horizon 6 is the second game I try with V-SYNC ON and framegen again and I am quite surprised to see MY FPS sticking very smoothly (not abruptly) around 135, 136, 137 FPS, and fully locked in 1%lows at 72.

Camera movement themselves feels very smooth, with no stutter nor any tearing.

I still understand less Latency but it seems to sits around 15ms to render and 45ms to... Display ?

Feels responsive to me, I personnally boost the pollrate of my controllers and m/K so it's fine to me.

But... Yeah, i'm really surprised to see how nice it feels, in average i end up with A smoothest FPS lock / fluctuaction that isn't disturbing the framepacing overall

and I wanted to know if i'm alone to have been helped by this fix ?

Is there anyone here, mostly with no or partial G-SYNC compatibility that could give some feedback on this ?

Some games getting worse worse average and 1% lows, stuttering and such. Is this still the case or has it been patched through the years?

Question is pretty straight forward, will the 5080 be enough or should one really be looking at the 5090 for Path Tracing? It’s honestly more impressive to me than Ray Tracing, I know that sounds silly but blows my mind how it makes some media look.

Feel free to share your opinions/experiences!

I’m conflicted between the 5070 ti, 5080 and 5090 but I’m not sure which is best for money when it comes to 1440p.

I know the 5090 isn’t really necessary for 1440p, but I’d rather have the 32gb vram for future proofing.

Resident Evil 2 has been tested in Linux (Pop!_OS 24.04, COSMIC/Wayland) and Windows on my dual-boot machine:

RTX 5070 Ti
Ryzen 9 5900X,
RAM 32 GB
Each operating system has its own identical 1TB SSD drive.

The game was run at 1080p using the MAX settings, VSYNC OFF, FRAME LIMIT -OFF.
Game Mode -ON
NTsync - ON
Both systems Windows and Linux were set on Max Performance power plans available via OS GUI

Linux lags behind by about 30 - 40 FPS on average in this test, despite the fact that both platforms provide excellent performance, well above 200 FPS, with exceptional overall consistency.
The 1% LOWs shows opposite picture, with Linux winning by 10–15 FPS.
Linux GPU utilization is 3–5% lower than Windows.
On the Windows end, CPU utilization clearly shows greater and steady frequencies.
On the Linux end, GPU VMem use is greater for 1 GB, which can be explained by usage of Proton (compatibility layer).

Both systems are still perfectly playable and fluid over the whole benchmark.

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Disclaimer: Why I Test with Pop!_OS + NVIDIA
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1. Windows gamers
   The whole point of these benchmarks is to show that Linux gaming exists, works well, and isn’t nearly as complicated as many Windows users think. I’m basically trying to show a realistic migration path from Windows to Linux, not build a perfect Linux-only lab.

2. NVIDIA dominates the gaming GPU market.
   According to the Steam Hardware Survey, NVIDIA usually sits around ~75–80% of GPUs in gaming PCs. If I test on NVIDIA, I’m covering what most gamers actually use.

3. Pop!_OS is one of the easiest distros for NVIDIA users.
   It ships with dedicated NVIDIA ISOs, drivers are integrated, and updates are straightforward. I run tests on official Pop!_OS drivers, so the setup reflects something an average user could realistically install.

4. If Linux gaming works on NVIDIA, it works for most gamers.
   Yes, AMD often performs better on Linux. I’m aware of that. But testing only on AMD would shrink the scope from ~80% of the market to a much smaller slice. My goal is broader relevance, not best-case scenarios.

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So uh what should i use? I vastly prefer preset L over K, looks so much more crisp in 4k,

RR overrides dlss 4.5 tho right?

Trynna play cyperpunk max settings in 4k, i just cranked everything up + path tracing + dlss quality + frame gen

Looking for best settings for 4k 144hz with my 5080

Cheers ✌️

(I dont think id even mind 30 fps, i just want fidelty)

I have a 5080 ultra7 265kf I play at 3440-1440p
What dlss preset/ nvidia preset should I use for both performance and graphics