Ask all PC enthusiasts who have been here or more about the biggest range of GPUs to go out, and you will probably hear a long monologue on the GTX 10 “Pascal” series from Nvidia. These GPUs not only left AMD far behind in 2016, but did something that no other GPU range has been able to do since. Not only Pascal had performance numbers by A-Watt, but it was also relatively affordable, widely available and free from major defects and bugs.
Since then, the GPU launches that we have seen from Nvidia have been too expensive without offering much in return, affected by unprecedented shortages, is strongly reduced compared to previous generations. In the case of the last RTX 50 seriesEach of these problems is at stake at the same time. Is it just me or nvidia culminated with the GTX 10 series?

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GTX 1000: Pascal becomes synonymous with GPU
It was like a sling
With hindsight, the NVIDIA GTX 900 series gave the impression that the GPU industry was seriously retained due to the limits of the underlying process nodes. The passage of the node 28 nm of TSMC to node 16 nm was sufficient to make GPUs of the GTX 10 series of NVIDIA, despite no fundamental architectural change from Maxwell to Pascal. The GTX 1080 was about 30% faster than the GTX 980 TI, while being half the size, using much less power and costing less.
The venerated GTX 1080 Ti, for only $ 100 more, was still 30% faster than the GTX 1080. It is not for nothing that the 1080 Ti is always one of the GPUS is worth buying usedOffering a 1080p and even 1440p game experience in many titles. Throughout the Pascal battery, Nvidia has delivered FPS gains by massive dollar, and GPUs like the GTX 1070 and GTX 1060 have become historical products whose consumers remember with emotion to date.
There were no paralyzing supply problems, gourmet scalpors or inflated PDSF distressing the launch of the GTX 10 series. It was the last time that Nvidia offered really excellent GPUs for the price, the products that people really wanted to buy.

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RTX 2000: Turing overpromised and subdiskers
GTX’s transition to RTX
Nvidia was the pioneer in real time Ray traced In consumer GPUs, but technology was not enough to position RTX 2000 GPUs in a good day. Of course, the initial demos of tracing the rays were impressive and promised new summits of realism in the last titles, but these titles seemed to be missing on the image. For a long time, the list of games with tracing effects of the shelves was slim and the players were little encouraged to separate from their Pascal GPU.
In addition to that, many Turing cards were not much faster than their Pascal predecessors; The RTX 2080 was only about 10% faster than the GTX 1080 TI in certain games. NVIDIA stopped the higher prices of RTX 2000 GPUs on the tracing of the shelves alone, but the industry was slow for adoption. The powerful GTX 1080 TI launched $ 699, which was not cheap in any standard, but the RTX 2080 TI broke all the records by receiving $ 999. The NVIDIA GPUs had officially become luxury products, and they didn’t have much to show for that, at least not yet.
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RTX 3000: Ampère launches on a terrible market
The lost generation
Nvidia knew that he needed something well after the lukewarm answer to RTX 2000 cards. So he launched a range that was really great, the RTX 3000 “Ampère” series. The launch promised an RTX 3060 TI which was going to beat the Super RTX $ 2080 to almost half of the price. The flagship product RTX 3090 at $ 1,499 may have been unimportant for most consumers, but the RTX 3080 at $ 699 was one of the best GPUs that Nvidia had long been manufactured.
Nvidia has reduced prices through the range, offering killers to all those looking for an upgrade. So what’s wrong? Basically, everything else. The RTX 3000 series was launched at the worst time possible. The crisis of the shortage of silicon and the supply chain due to the pandemic, combined with the boom of cryptocurrencies, created a perfect storm which assured that no one could buy these incredible GPUs at the prices that Nvidia had promised. The demand was unprecedented, the scalpers made a bank and the market mainly stopped for the average consumer.
As the market came back to normality, we were already a year after the launch of RTX 4000, which means that the Ampère range has essentially become the lost generation.

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RTX 4000: ADA Lovelace vacillates on prices
The return of Nvidia in good shape, but not in the right direction
The RTX 4000 series could have been all that the previous generation was not, but Nvidia could simply not resist the charge of a ton for its new GPUs. The pandemic era had clearly indicated one thing – consumers were ready to pay anything for GPUs. And Nvidia responded with price record price increases on the RTX 30 series. The RTX 4080 of 80 classes had a leap to $ 1,199 compared to the previous price of $ 699. THE RTX 4090 Could have been at only $ 100 more than the RTX 3090, but it has always sold much higher.
Mid -range networks such as RTX 4070 Ti had a lot for them, but a Lack of enough VRAM And the unaccompressing prices made them immediately less exciting. Further in the battery, products like the RTX 4060 Ti were simply terrible, efficient more slowly than their predecessors in many cases. And then, you also had the RTX 4080 12GB “tirelessly”, which was quickly exposed as the RTX 4070 Ti in everything except.
THE A super refreshment of the RTX 40 series did not do much to wash the bad taste left in consumers’ mouths. He delivered small performances in the mid -range and essentially reduced the price of RTX 4080 by $ 200, a price that should have been there to start.

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RTX 5000: Blackwell announces a black age for game GPUs
Nvidia stops worrying completely
The latest generation of Nvidia cards leaves no doubt in the spirit of anyone on the intentions of the company – it has fully adopted her AI DNA of the new age. Blackwell GPUs failed to provide significant gains in raw performance on the Ada Lovelace series. NVIDIA enthusiastically marketed the FPS gains fed by AI, thanks to Multi-Camers generationBut the problems of latency with the generation of framework were only exacerbated by the new technology.
The biggest problem, however, was the poor availability of GPUs in the RTX 50 series. A return to the launch of the RTX 30 series, the 2025 GPU market was filled with scalpers, paper launchesand unrealistic PDSF. NVIDIA Fusion connectors made a return after its beginnings in 2022 and the combination of Missing rops,, Terrible driversAnd little effort to maintain the supply numbers show that Nvidia has stopped trying to make GPUs fascinating for consumers. No one expects the next RTX 5060 Ti And RTX 5060 to offer a good reason to upgrade either.

Edition of the founder of Nvidia RTX 5070
The NVIDIA RTX 5070 is an affordable blackwell graphics card, offering approximately 20% more performance than RTX 4007 at a decent price, but only if you can find one in stock.

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When will Nvidia make GPUs super excellent?
Assuming it will even happen, when Nvidia plans to launch another generation like Pascal? Each successive range has been plagued by intrinsic or extrinsic problems, leading to a less than ideal launch. RX 90 series of AMD has reduced the gap with Nvidia significantly, offering refreshing competition in the mid -range segment. It is difficult to say that this will force Team Green to try to make its RTX 6000 series. Today’s Nvidia is very different from what it was.