Here's a little more "good news" today, if you hate "AI" like most normal people:
The RTX 5090 is using liquid metal as its thermal interface material.
Do you know how much of a pain in the ass that stuff is? Companies don't use it unless they have to.
That bodes poorly for the rest of Blackwell.
The RTX 5090 is using liquid metal as its thermal interface material.
Do you know how much of a pain in the ass that stuff is? Companies don't use it unless they have to.
That bodes poorly for the rest of Blackwell.
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By the Omnissiah, between this and the benchmarks coming out for AMD's cards, the 5000 series is gonna be a shitshow.
But if they have to use liquid metal to tame it, and pure performance increases are only maybe 20-25% ...
That means Blackwell "AI" accelerators will suck.
And Blackwell was delayed because Nvidia was already having trouble with power and heat.
Now their "Founders Edition" needs liquid metal.
Doesn't seem like things are going well.
It also means warranty repairs on the PS5 are a giant pain in the ass. If you're trying to repair your own PS5 good luck because there's a chance the liquid metal drips elsewhere on the PCB and kills it.
You need to know how to handle it, something that falls under "specialized knowledge" way beyond something like thermal paste or pads.
A liquid metal mistake kills the entire device.
It's liquid metal *and* the 125W increase *and* Nvidia's own slides showing most of the performance increases for the 5090 come from DLSS 4.0 Multi-frame generation and not the raw power of the GPU.
You know what needs the raw power of the GPU?
"AI."
Regular thermal paste isn't conductive.