Is nvidia going to stop making video cards for the gaming market?

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It's seems that nv is becoming a data center business model thingy now. Microcenter has no more available. Is nvidia going to stop making video cards for gamers and soley focus on the enterprise?

Nvidia has reportedly stopped manufacturing the GeForce RTX 5090 and its China-market D variants, redirecting all GB202 GPU die production toward high-margin AI data center and RTX Pro Workstation Cards. [1, 2]

Key Details of the Shift
  • Discontinuation Reports: Industry sources and hardware leakers (including MEGAsizeGPU and hongxing2020) report that Nvidia has notified factories to halt production of the GB202-based RTX 5090. [1, 2]
  • AI Focus: All available GB202 silicon is reportedly being shifted to professional and AI hardware like the RTX Pro series. [1, 2]
  • New Consumer Flagship: Rumors indicate that Nvidia may pivot the consumer lineup by introducing an upgraded RTX 5080 with 24GB of VRAM to replace the current 16GB model as the top-tier gaming card. [1, 2]
  • Reseller Prices: Existing retail and third-party stock has already surged to extreme levels (frequently exceeding $7,000), with retailers like Micro Center enforcing strict ID and anti-export pledges on remaining units.
 
They will stop making FLAGSHIP video cards for the gaming market, but I don't see Nvidia making zero gaming cards at all. I can see the biggest Rubin "202" dies or whatever they call it 100% going towards AI cards only while gaming gets the smaller "203" silicon sold as either a 6080 or rebranded as 6090 depending on it's performance.
 
MistaSparkul said:
They will stop making FLAGSHIP video cards for the gaming market, but I don't see Nvidia making zero gaming cards at all. I can see the biggest Rubin "202" dies or whatever they call it 100% going towards AI cards only while gaming gets the smaller "203" silicon sold as either a 6080 or rebranded as 6090 depending on it's performance.
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so an 80 series video card is going to cost 5k now? alrighty then.
 
First Radeon left the high end of videocards and now GeForce is doing the same.
Now we start getting less powerful cards than we could be getting and the msrp's will continue to go up.
If they release a 24gb RTX 5080 next year, watch the msrp be very close to what the rtx 5090 msrp originally was.
 
When Blackwell was announced I thought I'd skip the gen but in the years since the high end consumer market has taken a hit. I mean we've had multiple cryptocurrency price spikes in the past (even dating back to the GTX 1080 era) but even those weren't as egregious. Not sure it will return to normalcy unless something dramatic happens.

Intel's Arc was actually a rare positive leading up to this but read they're exiting discrete GPUs, so RIP.
 
I am not sure about stopping making flagship video card, it is not like the 3090 was particularly close to an A100 level GPU (828mm of tsmc 7 vs 628mm of quite inferior Samsung node), it had almost just half the transistors, the 3090 was still seen as a flagship gaming gpu by people because that just about being the fastest gaming GPU available and that only relative to what exist on the market not what supercomputer can do that we never see in person. The 6800 ultra was a really small and cheap chip to make, it was still the flagship gpu back then.

Their ego will push them to always have something similar or a bit above AMD fastest gaming GPU as long they make gaming GPU would be my guess, so they will always offer what get to be seen as a flagship gaming GPU.

Will they make gaming GPU, as long entreprise do buy GPU that have similar tech I do not see why not, gaming and PC gaming seem like a giant growing worldwide business, that people will be ready to spend fortune on.
 
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You have to think outside of the phrase "gaming" versus enterprise.. It is more appropriate to call them the "consumer" and "business" product lines..
Right now.. CEO's are counting dollar signs in the sleep at night instead of sheep.. They are flourishing in record profits quarter after quarter with all this AI spending.. We've already experienced Micron dropping from the consumer memory market...
We are seeing huge drops in PC shipments from the various manufacturers.. ( large numbers.. not just tiny amounts )
This is not the last of all this craziness..

The PC enthusiast hobby as we know it has took a huge step back
 
Hash_Immutable_1337x said:
We've already experienced Micron dropping from the consumer memory market...
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they made 36.6 billions from their MCBU (Mobile and Client Business Unit) segment in 2026 financial year, 3 time more than in 2024, about the same as their, about exactly the same as the data center business (37.6 billions)
 
MistaSparkul said:
They will stop making FLAGSHIP video cards for the gaming market, but I don't see Nvidia making zero gaming cards at all. I can see the biggest Rubin "202" dies or whatever they call it 100% going towards AI cards only while gaming gets the smaller "203" silicon sold as either a 6080 or rebranded as 6090 depending on it's performance.
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The real problem is that the flagship video card, the best GPU for the market will still be decided by NVIDIA. AMD's so far behind that I feel like we'll be in GPU stagnation for quite some time with everything good, innovative or ground breaking shifting to AI and datacenter markets. The 5080 24GB (if NVIDIA does one) will effectively be the flagship until the 60 series. I could easily see us getting a 6080 or something that may have 32GB of RAM, but it probably won't be more than 10-15% faster than the 5080's of today.

Unless AMD suddenly learns to compete at the high end, I fear this will be the new status quo going forward.
 
Dan_D said:
The real problem is that the flagship video card, the best GPU for the market will still be decided by NVIDIA. AMD's so far behind that I feel like we'll be in GPU stagnation for quite some time with everything good, innovative or ground breaking shifting to AI and datacenter markets. The 5080 24GB (if NVIDIA does one) will effectively be the flagship until the 60 series. I could easily see us getting a 6080 or something that may have 32GB of RAM, but it probably won't be more than 10-15% faster than the 5080's of today.

Unless AMD suddenly learns to compete at the high end, I fear this will be the new status quo going forward.
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Agree with all of this but I'd bet $1 that the 6080 will have 24GB VRAM and will outcompete the 5080 24GB by maybe 10-15%. The 6080 will not outperform the 5090 by any metric except total power draw/efficiency/frames per watt/whatever you wanna use.

I expect the 5090 will remain the flagship consumer GPU until 2031, when the 7080 24GB will provide broadly comparable performance at modestly lower power draw.
 
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The 5080 is about 12% faster than the 4080 looking at the most recent benchmark (9070 gre reviews) at 4k on TPU, it was a bit of a worse case scenario, still on TSMC 5, same size die....

With how much they can charge for GPU (and how expensive they will be to make anyway because of memory) and the benefice of keeping it the same size, going for TSMC 3 this time around, if they release a "small" 6080 (i.e. keep it at 380mm) I am not sure why it would not be closer to an more usual 20-25% ?

Do we have some preview that TSMC 3N does not help much ? the N1X performance could be suggesting that, but they went all-in on efficacy over performance on that one and that a cheap implementation, not a full-on new line up on 3nm.

I think very likely that MSRP explose instead of dies getting smaller, and if that the case we should get a full new TSMC node generation update.

as for the 6090 they have to make big RTX 6000 anyway, they have to do something with the lesser dies, can they find enough business for the RTX 4000/5000 to never release a gaming version, to the cost of not having a nice halo card ? maybe, but why not still release it and not make much of them, they have the money to spend and have an answer ready if AMD release AT0 gaming cards...
 
Celcius said:
First Radeon left the high end of videocards and now GeForce is doing the same.
Now we start getting less powerful cards than we could be getting and the msrp's will continue to go up.
If they release a 24gb RTX 5080 next year, watch the msrp be very close to what the rtx 5090 msrp originally was.
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Going to be more. Current 5080s are going for $1600+ and rising.
 
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