from what I’ve tracked, it lines up with the broader chip shortage story, component costs have gone up across the GPU supply chain. on top of that, the RTX 5090 specifically has extra demand from people running local AI models since it’s the best consumer card with 32GB VRAM, so it’s pulling on both gamers and AI/compute users at once.
iluvdata@lemmy.world 1 week ago
from what I’ve tracked, it lines up with the broader chip shortage story, component costs have gone up across the GPU supply chain. on top of that, the RTX 5090 specifically has extra demand from people running local AI models since it’s the best consumer card with 32GB VRAM, so it’s pulling on both gamers and AI/compute users at once.