It is unquestionably a great performance card in every way we would of expected such as raw performance, it is also undoubtedly bad in all the ways we expected in terms of price and power consumption.
I've an 7900xtx and it is still far exceeding my requirements, not that I would spend nearly double for the 5900.
The only thing that has me even thinking about the 50xx series is potential raytracing gains. My 3080Ti is still plenty powerful for 4K/120fps, but the few times I've tried running raytracing at those resolutions it feels like I may as well just using the integrated graphics on my CPU.
SLI dying was more a result of developers not wanting to optimize games for it since it added more overhead, and while there were performance gains to be had, it often wasn't as effective as just buying a better single GPU.
The game benchmarks are somewhat pointless. This is not a consumer-focused card but rather targeting AI datacenters. 99% of these $2k cards will never render a frame so seeing LLM benchmarks would be far more relevant.
AI datacenter procurement people aren't buying gaming-oriented GPUs for datacenters, nVidia specifically makes GPUs for that purpose (that also tend to cost much more than $2k).
