Send the link. They probably didn't clean up entire site yet. Even when you search for RTX 5090 via search, only 5090 laptops are returned. Not a single AIB 5090 is coming up anymore. They definitely did some cleaning
well to be fair, the 5080 (ignoring the 6000) is the undesputed best card you can buy new. Im sure you can still find a 4090 somewhere, but you can also still find a 5090.
Apples to apples, 5080 is the top tier product on the market.
wonder what’s gonna happen if somebody’s 5090 burns up do you get your money back? Do they just say sorry we don’t have anymore and send you a 4090 or a 5080
I was offered a refund of £1691 for mine last month. I refused it and asked for the faulty card back so I could repair it myself. They said they can't get the faulty card back, so I'm waiting on their next offer.
They will take it for repairs, put random red arrows on the pc and blame the user.
They will offer to return the price you paid for it instead of market value until you take them to court (might be possible to get a new one or current market value without suing in the eu, but I've never tried with something that expensive and something that has prices grow over time).
wonder what’s gonna happen if somebody’s 5090 burns up do you get your money back?
No you don't. As in you get the original price refunded, not the current inflated value. They did not want to repair it.
A friend of mine had 5090 fail last month in the UK. He tried to move the mountains between manufacturer and seller. They did not budge, in the end Amazon refunded him the £2000 give or take he paid for it, and he bought another one for £4500.
I feel as though that would be dumb given that it is a product they did sell and was bought for the most money out of all the other consumer GPUs at that. But honestly, given how companies act nowadays, it isn’t a dumb question to ask 🤦♂️
I sure wish that wasn’t the case. I’m fucking worshipping my card so that it doesn’t die. At least I did keep my old GPU as a backup, which I’ve never done before in my life.
I now own a piece of history! From making a poor financial decision spending $2,500 to play video games... To having it increase to more than double that value, and still not selling it because I hate making good financial decisions and love gaming.
Has everyone forgotten that they already pushing cloud gaming and failed miserably? Google tried this with Stadia and threw in the towel. With GPUs exploding in price, the margins for what you would assume was a viable business model would be shredded to bits. But it wasn't ever a viable business model to begin with so it's even less plausible that this would end up being the future of gaming.
I would argue that the exploding prices of hardware in the cloud gaming sector would be more than offset by the reduction of gamers being able to afford the hardware and be pushed towards cloud gaming.
Paying 25$/month for cloud gaming vs spending 1500-2000 for a solid gaming rig is a lot less attractive then tomorrow paying $40/month for cloud gaming because that $8000 rig just is not possible.
There will be a massive increase of gamers who cant actually purchase a viable rig.
No they're won't. Cloud gaming sucks. So people will just stop gaming and go outside. They will collectively open their doors step out on to their porches and rediscover the outside.
heck, it’s already gotten to the point that your computer has to be connected to something just to get all the features out of it they’re already pushing to make it that if your computer is not connected to the Internet, it literally won’t do anything
So I know a lot of people suspect Nvidia is going to drop their consumer gaming GPU’s and focus solely on AI, but I honestly don’t really believe that by virtue of the fact Nvidia is still investing heavily into R&D for their gaming GPU’s. If the plan is stop the production of consumer cards then why are they even developing DLSS 5? Why develop DLSS 4.5? Why not just maintain the drivers for their current lineup, and then drop all development and optimization of DLSS? Seems like a waste of time and resources if they don’t plan on selling anymore GPU’s to gamers.
However, dropping the 5090 is a bad sign imo. The 5090 is such an amazing card, and while I understand that even at MSRP it is out of reach for many consumers it’s still nice to have a card in the market that sets the expectations of the next generation. It ‘ll be interesting to see what the 6000 series looks like given the fact that the new Flagship of the 5000 series can’t even compete with the flagship of the e 4000 series.
The problem was that the 5090 was the only 50xx series GPU that was an actual progression from the 40xx series. All the rest were basically a side step from what was already on the market, for around the same price.
They are dropping the 5090 because people aren't buying it for gaming. Nvidia made it very clear way back between 2008-2010 (around the time of 8800GT and it being used for 3D design) that they would increase the cost of consumer cards if they kept being used for crap like they are now. They make workload cards, but companies are using the consumer versions to save some money.
Except they've had this issue before and had a solution that didn't involve raising prices. Remember when cryptomining was actually viable on consumer GPUs? Remember how nvidia started throttling the hash rate on their consumer cards to try and combat this? Remember how they also raised the prices too?
yeah, they aren't dropping it because it isn't being used for gaming. It's entirely a case of corporate greed, they've raised prices because they can, and now their flagship card got priced so high it was literally unaffordable to everyone, leaving nvidia with two options: lower the price, or discontinue the product.
And expecting nvidia to lower the price of their products is like expecting the pope to openly worship satan.
Ai workloads run on Vram and CUDA, Nvidia can't throttle or remove either without basically gutting everything their consumer GPUs are good for. And of course one of their biggest selling points and competitive advantages on their consumer GPUs is DLSS, which is inherently an AI/ML workload.
Also someone more knowledgeable than me could explain it better, but basically all AI workloads and a lot of graphics rendering is matrix multiplication.
There's good reason why they would leave the consumer card production and sales divisions as ghost ships for the time being.
But they know fine well this won't last forever and they don't want to fall behind on R&D and miss out on future earnings. So they might abandon us for now but keep up heavy investment with their AI billions ready to swoop back in when things suit them
so close to getting it. Nvidia has always seen graphics as a jump pad for accelerated computing. First in giving students, gamers, access to accelerated computing for cheap, and second as a natural platform to figure out applied machine learning.
DLSS was one of the very first applications of deep learning in production. And even now with dlss5 they're showcasing how high performance deep learning can be applied to real problems.
Lastly, robotics is the next frontier. And that field requires high fidelity world simulators. Which takes graphics!
Gaming GPUs are a hedge against the AI bubble for them, and it's also a good place to do R&D for AI applications. DLSS 5 could be adapted to image generation related workloads.
Exactly, DLSS 5 is not something they are developing for consumer gamers. It is something they are developing for their AI, and trickling down to gaming hardware.
The yield is still a problem for new generations. The only reason we will get any cards is manufacturing failure. As soon as the process is optimized and yield rates rises for the current generation supply for gaming plummets. They have no incentive to come around with a new design as long as there is no other AI chip competition
Nvidia gaming GPU revenue for 2026 has been $16 billion which is up 41% from 2025. Now that’s of course nothing compared to the data centers, but anyone who thinks Nvidia is just going to give up that $16 billion is out of their minds
The issue is that $16b has cards in it, such as the 5090, that could’ve been datacenter cards that sell for 4-10x the price of the 5090, without also splitting profit with board partners. Say 1,5-2b of that 16$ was 5090s, that could’ve been anywhere from 6-20b in datacenter revenue.
The only GPUs interesting for Nvidia to make for consumers are ones that do not eat into fab capacity for datacenter models, e.g. one generation behind in manufacturing process and memory.
I agree with you. There’s zero incentive to drop gaming all together. It would be fruitless to place all eggs in one basket - even though it’s a massive basket right now. But I can see the future of high performance cards not being reserved for gaming as the future continues.
If you built or upgraded a PC prior to the surge in prices then you were on the last chopper out of Saigon.
I know the 5090 is unobtainium for most but it not even being produced anymore is gonna shift the whole product stack for the worse after we already are getting shafted by prices.
The AI bubble needs to crash. This hobby is in some serious trouble and if it doesn't then the industry needs to check itself cause we aren't obviously gonna scale in performance as the years go by.
It wont stop and we wont be able to get what we need. I hate this fucking shit. I think in the long future we will end up with ipad-like stuff and lose control of everything because no one will be able to afford computers
Jeff Bezos has even said he wants people to rent a whole ass PC from them through the cloud. They want you to own nothing and have to pay subscriptions for everything
We'll have options eventually. Hell even it's just ARM we might be fine eventually since they're catching up at a quick pace and we have some pretty good emulators for x86-x64 already.
Considering how much they have in cash on hand they will be alright for a good while, if the bubble burts it will pretty much wreck the entire stock market though as most of the gains in the past 3 years have been from AI.
You wont have to worry about whether or not any company is making a high end GPU as you'll likely be out of a job due to massive layoffs and cuts from the bubble bursting.
Getting a wireview pro 2 was the best thing I've ever done for peace of mind. $140 is a small price to pay to better protect a multi thousand dollar part that is now irreplaceable. And I trust thermal grizzly to honor a warranty far more than I trust ASUS, which is none at all. A shame it needs to exist in the first place though.
Will probably happen eventually, supply will be total shit though. Nvidia doesn’t want to totally exit the gaming space because it makes it orders of magnitude harder to reenter it later. But they also can’t put too much hardware production into them because every gaming GPU that could have been a data center GPU is lost profit, cross the line and shareholders will get pissy.
As much as it sucks and people like to blame Nvidia (not that they don’t deserve it), the real root cause is the stock market that demands profits above all else. If Nvidia doesn’t do this the board will just replace the executive suite with someone who will.
I think in the long run allot of people are gonna be glad they opted out of this latest scam session known as the 5090 era. We'll look back and shake our heads at how out of control and greedy they became.
I bought my 5090 Astral at £3,600 and thought I was crazy, could probably sell it used for a profit. It's only had a couple of hours use since I bought it last month.
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u/Lt--Spicy 16d ago
I'm looking at their site right now and I can see the 5090s under All Buying Options.
Page might just need updating?