Comment Re:Hear me out on this (Score 2) 58
Recent news leaks have suggested that Nvidia has stopped manufacturing the 5090 and are using those GB202 chips only for their PRO line of models instead. For pricing reasons, the 5090 has really stopped being a consumer level GPU anyway. It's now used primarity for workstation use for use cases where you need a beefy GPU but 32Gb of VRAM is enough, which is what Nvidia wants to stop apparently by making businesses buy the PRO models instad.
The next step up in GPU power (not counting VRAM) in Nvidia's lineup is the RTX Pro 6000 which costs like 3x as much even at today's inflated 5090 prices. It uses the same GB202 chip but with all cores unlocked.
If these leaks are true, and the 5090 is in fact no longer being manufactured, that menas the top consumer level GPU available from Nvidia is in fact the 5080 (which is slower than the 4090), and Nvidia may release a 5080 Super with 24Gb of VRAM to compensate, by switching the 2Gb VRAM chips to 3Gb chips. That certainly will mean more price increases, so we may be looking at the updated 5080 at $2k and the 5070TI slowly creeping up towards $1.5k.
It's a pretty bleak outlook for gamers, but also a lousy situation for users and small businesses who want to run local LLM models without breaking the bank.