Tearing Down a GPU No One Should Buy - RTX 5070 Founders Edition Disassembly
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Date: 2025-03-05
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orozcocris93
it isnt that nvidia doesnt have money it is that they want to give you the bottom of the barrel product and charge you gold for it. since the 3kl series of gpus i have been staying away from nvidia. the problem with the gpu market is you eiter buy a toyota (nvidia) a kia (amd) or a pontiac (intel) where if you were buying a car, first off, toyota would not let such qc problems go through the assembly line. that would spell disaster for their reputation and they actually care about that. kia prides in being a cheap but good alternative where amd only cares that they are the lesser of the two evils by placing themselves just slightly under in price and offering just as much performance and then there is intel. basically out of business and their cards are not really guaranteed to be future proof ie receive updates to drivers and such just like a bankrupt company like pontiac has become. reliable enough but no longer in the market...
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it isnt that nvidia doesnt have money it is that they want to give you the bottom of the barrel product and charge you gold for it. since the 3kl series of gpus i have been staying away from nvidia. the problem with the gpu market is you eiter buy a toyota (nvidia) a kia (amd) or a pontiac (intel) where if you were buying a car, first off, toyota would not let such qc problems go through the assembly line. that would spell disaster for their reputation and they actually care about that. kia prides in being a cheap but good alternative where amd only cares that they are the lesser of the two evils by placing themselves just slightly under in price and offering just as much performance and then there is intel. basically out of business and their cards are not really guaranteed to be future proof ie receive updates to drivers and such just like a bankrupt company like pontiac has become. reliable enough but no longer in the market...
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FunBunChuck
Waiting for the review of the Radeon RX 9070XT is like waiting for the doctor's prognosis on your tests for pancreatic cancer. You know it's going to be bad,... you just don't know how bad.
The Radeon RX 9070XT will perform worse than the GeForce RTX 2060 Fe! The drivers are going to power crash so bad they're going to permanently brick Gamer's Nexus test benches! Then just for good measure the Radeon RX 9070XT will spontaneously combust for absolutely no reason other than to make absolutely sure there will be no test results!
Nvidia wins again!
Nvidia always wins!
And Linus Tech Tips will have the same exact problems! Spontaneously exploding Radeons!
Nvidia wins some more!
And Jayztwocents review will be filled smoking computers followed by a spectacular fiery explosion!
Nvidia wins even more!
Nvidiaaaaaah!
Supweeeeeeme! Marketshare skyrockets to a perfect 100%!
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Waiting for the review of the Radeon RX 9070XT is like waiting for the doctor's prognosis on your tests for pancreatic cancer. You know it's going to be bad,... you just don't know how bad.
The Radeon RX 9070XT will perform worse than the GeForce RTX 2060 Fe! The drivers are going to power crash so bad they're going to permanently brick Gamer's Nexus test benches! Then just for good measure the Radeon RX 9070XT will spontaneously combust for absolutely no reason other than to make absolutely sure there will be no test results!
Nvidia wins again!
Nvidia always wins!
And Linus Tech Tips will have the same exact problems! Spontaneously exploding Radeons!
Nvidia wins some more!
And Jayztwocents review will be filled smoking computers followed by a spectacular fiery explosion!
Nvidia wins even more!
Nvidiaaaaaah!
Supweeeeeeme! Marketshare skyrockets to a perfect 100%!
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David-h5r1x
Only nvidia has all the problems. Melted power cable, missing ROPs ect..AMD however has No problems and the price is way cheaper. AMD also usually has more Vram. My Radeon rx 7900 xtx has 24gb of Vram..Nvidia flagship only has 16gb Vram....I been saying it for years AMD has more bang for the buck...Nvidia is just all hype and super expensive for what you are getting..also Nvidia fixed something that was never broke. The power cable. AMD has NEVER ever had a melted power cable. That is a Nvidia problem that they created. If it ain't broke don't fix it
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Only nvidia has all the problems. Melted power cable, missing ROPs ect..AMD however has No problems and the price is way cheaper. AMD also usually has more Vram. My Radeon rx 7900 xtx has 24gb of Vram..Nvidia flagship only has 16gb Vram....I been saying it for years AMD has more bang for the buck...Nvidia is just all hype and super expensive for what you are getting..also Nvidia fixed something that was never broke. The power cable. AMD has NEVER ever had a melted power cable. That is a Nvidia problem that they created. If it ain't broke don't fix it
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gamersnexus
Looking at the PCB near the power connector I see what looks like two shunt resistors which might allow the card to treat the 12-pin as two separate power sources. The RTX 3090 Ti did that with its 12-pin, though there it was treated as three power sources, and according to Buildzoid that was what caused it be more resistant to the power connector failure compared to the RTX 4090. If Nvidia is actually balancing the power on this card then it might suffer less power connector failures than the RTX 5070 Ti, 5080 and 5090.
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Looking at the PCB near the power connector I see what looks like two shunt resistors which might allow the card to treat the 12-pin as two separate power sources. The RTX 3090 Ti did that with its 12-pin, though there it was treated as three power sources, and according to Buildzoid that was what caused it be more resistant to the power connector failure compared to the RTX 4090. If Nvidia is actually balancing the power on this card then it might suffer less power connector failures than the RTX 5070 Ti, 5080 and 5090.
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gundamned4879
the only reason i was even remotely considering getting a 5070 was for the full flow-through design, good to know my 3070 FE is basically the same! i don't want another GPU with the 12VHP connector anymore after all of this, my 3070 arrived with an 8 pin adapter that turned it into a Half connector. only 6 pins were used on the 3070FE 12VHP adapter, so i bought a 3080 adapter from Micro Connectors to use all 12 pins instead of sending 220 WATTS OVER 6 TINY PINS
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the only reason i was even remotely considering getting a 5070 was for the full flow-through design, good to know my 3070 FE is basically the same! i don't want another GPU with the 12VHP connector anymore after all of this, my 3070 arrived with an 8 pin adapter that turned it into a Half connector. only 6 pins were used on the 3070FE 12VHP adapter, so i bought a 3080 adapter from Micro Connectors to use all 12 pins instead of sending 220 WATTS OVER 6 TINY PINS
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NotFred07
The fins on the backplate make me think back fondly to my thermalright HR-11, an additional little cooler that attached to the back of the gpu in the 8800GTX days.
People would laugh and say it didn't do anything because that's not where the heat was, even though I could test with and without it and show it made a few degrees of difference.
Well, who's laughing now! (It's Nvidia isn't it. All the way to the bank)
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The fins on the backplate make me think back fondly to my thermalright HR-11, an additional little cooler that attached to the back of the gpu in the 8800GTX days.
People would laugh and say it didn't do anything because that's not where the heat was, even though I could test with and without it and show it made a few degrees of difference.
Well, who's laughing now! (It's Nvidia isn't it. All the way to the bank)
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gamersnexus
Great content for the morbidly curious - Thanks Steve! - Thx GN crew!
Observation: To get that X-frame off, seems to me the first step should be remove the cover plate where the DP HDMI ports and back exhaust are first. That gives you access to the X-frame's retention screw and a clean shot at the outer edge to get a spudger in to lift the X-frame.
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Great content for the morbidly curious - Thanks Steve! - Thx GN crew!
Observation: To get that X-frame off, seems to me the first step should be remove the cover plate where the DP HDMI ports and back exhaust are first. That gives you access to the X-frame's retention screw and a clean shot at the outer edge to get a spudger in to lift the X-frame.
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annettesurfer
The 5070 FE is not yet listed at MC in MI but in-stock shows a $549.99 Asus Prime (x5), a $549.99 GB Windforce OC (x1), a $699.99 GB Gaming OC (x3), and a $739.99 Asus TUF. Pcpartpicker lists 50 different RTX 5070 models, and that doesn’t include the Ti model. I’ll wait for one of the 26 RX 9070 XT models that pcpartpicker listed.
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The 5070 FE is not yet listed at MC in MI but in-stock shows a $549.99 Asus Prime (x5), a $549.99 GB Windforce OC (x1), a $699.99 GB Gaming OC (x3), and a $739.99 Asus TUF. Pcpartpicker lists 50 different RTX 5070 models, and that doesn’t include the Ti model. I’ll wait for one of the 26 RX 9070 XT models that pcpartpicker listed.
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Genda1ph
GB103 is not a 5080 die - it's a 5070 die.
Historically 90 and Titan cards shared the die with the 80 class cards, this time nVidia pulled a 4080 12G except we didn't get the real 80 card. We might get a decent 5080 Ti, eventually, but I don't think nVidia is going to fix the board design, and I'm not running a fire hazard in my rig.
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GB103 is not a 5080 die - it's a 5070 die.
Historically 90 and Titan cards shared the die with the 80 class cards, this time nVidia pulled a 4080 12G except we didn't get the real 80 card. We might get a decent 5080 Ti, eventually, but I don't think nVidia is going to fix the board design, and I'm not running a fire hazard in my rig.
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gamersnexus
good to see the backplate being used as a piece of heatsink, but is it really worth it to add another failure point on the card with that daughter board just for this I doubt the weight of the GPU, especially when users moves the PC around, will cause stress to the daughter board before problems occurs as the daughter board gets lose
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good to see the backplate being used as a piece of heatsink, but is it really worth it to add another failure point on the card with that daughter board just for this I doubt the weight of the GPU, especially when users moves the PC around, will cause stress to the daughter board before problems occurs as the daughter board gets lose
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gamersnexus
Good grief, Nvidia really has issues with its 50 series
It seems Nvidia cant stop taking Ls.
Pretty happy that I dont have to upgrade my GPU.
I hope AMD can use the opportunity to get some of the market share back, so that Nvidia gets to regret their obvious mistakes in this generation of GPUs.
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Good grief, Nvidia really has issues with its 50 series
It seems Nvidia cant stop taking Ls.
Pretty happy that I dont have to upgrade my GPU.
I hope AMD can use the opportunity to get some of the market share back, so that Nvidia gets to regret their obvious mistakes in this generation of GPUs.
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CalgarGTX
Everytime you see a fkin torx screw on something, you already know it's a company that doesn't want you to disassemble anything, they are betting on average joe only having a crosshead screwdrivers in a size or two around. There is zero need for torx in low torque application like these.
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Everytime you see a fkin torx screw on something, you already know it's a company that doesn't want you to disassemble anything, they are betting on average joe only having a crosshead screwdrivers in a size or two around. There is zero need for torx in low torque application like these.
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sand9577
The inside of that back plate seems to be chemically milled, along with the fins, the stock material it starts from, the embedded threaded insert...the mechanical design of that single piece alone is probably the most expensive component of that card, well...aside from the PCB it self.
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The inside of that back plate seems to be chemically milled, along with the fins, the stock material it starts from, the embedded threaded insert...the mechanical design of that single piece alone is probably the most expensive component of that card, well...aside from the PCB it self.
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darnice1125
Only good thing about it is the removable pci slot because so many damaged cards is because of board flex from the pci connector. All manufacturers should copy this. The rest of Nvidia is a dumpster fire. But lemmings will still only buy Nvidia.
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Only good thing about it is the removable pci slot because so many damaged cards is because of board flex from the pci connector. All manufacturers should copy this. The rest of Nvidia is a dumpster fire. But lemmings will still only buy Nvidia.
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jamesmcd71
I don't need a new GPU. But I have decided to get a 9070XT just because I'm by using my 4090 Is hypocritical.
I really don't need a 4090. I ran across a deal on a rebuilt that was packed with high-end components and couldn't pass it up.
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I don't need a new GPU. But I have decided to get a 9070XT just because I'm by using my 4090 Is hypocritical.
I really don't need a 4090. I ran across a deal on a rebuilt that was packed with high-end components and couldn't pass it up.
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gamersnexus
Plot twist Nvidia completely makes Steve lose it, he becomes the whistlin diesel of tech. Sad part is Whistlin Steve catches more flack than Whistlin Diesel because GPUs are more rare and harder to come by than any other object on earth.
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Plot twist Nvidia completely makes Steve lose it, he becomes the whistlin diesel of tech. Sad part is Whistlin Steve catches more flack than Whistlin Diesel because GPUs are more rare and harder to come by than any other object on earth.
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mewimi
6:20 Steve you stole my ifixit toolkit, I want it back! I didn't know you were in my area! ( Mine also has the stuck bits in same area, I'm considering putting it in the freezer to contract the wood and then slightly widening the holes. )
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6:20 Steve you stole my ifixit toolkit, I want it back! I didn't know you were in my area! ( Mine also has the stuck bits in same area, I'm considering putting it in the freezer to contract the wood and then slightly widening the holes. )
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imglidinhere
The almost modular design of the PCIe-slot portion is cool because it might mean a future design for easier repairs I've seen a lot of cracked connectors as being the reason for inoperable GPUs. Would be a nice change at least.
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The almost modular design of the PCIe-slot portion is cool because it might mean a future design for easier repairs I've seen a lot of cracked connectors as being the reason for inoperable GPUs. Would be a nice change at least.
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David-h5r1x
Nvidia intentionally makes it difficult to take apart ther cards. Weird screw types. Hidden screws. Impossible to figure out what part fit where. AMD however all screws are visible and strait forward how to take apart
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Nvidia intentionally makes it difficult to take apart ther cards. Weird screw types. Hidden screws. Impossible to figure out what part fit where. AMD however all screws are visible and strait forward how to take apart
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permeus2nd
It never ceases to amaze me how small things end up been some of the most expensive.
I mean when you were holding the core of the GPU in your hand I’m thinking wow that’s the bit that costing 500 quid
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It never ceases to amaze me how small things end up been some of the most expensive.
I mean when you were holding the core of the GPU in your hand I’m thinking wow that’s the bit that costing 500 quid
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