Actually interesting, the 5090 is... i think we would have guessed it... a heavily cut down chip, because the "almost full die" got over 24 000 cores; which is way more than what a 5090 for "poor gamers" got to offer; not much more than 21 000 or more than 20% lesser cores. In some cases even more cores may become missing because those cards are actually way to broken to be of any good use in a AI-whatelse environment (probably the 10-20% worst case chips)... so it got its uses for gamers.
Interesting video "This is Nvidias World":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy1_9dcToJU Sure... a 24 000+ core "true Blackwell" chip can be run at probably lesser than 600 W and still offer more performance. Because for the "cut down" 5090 to be able to deliver its known performance... the GPU is running at a spec which is bad for efficiency!
This i can proof the easy way... because, if we would limit the power of a 5090 to around 450 W, it will use around 30% lesser power but the performance will only decrease around 15%. Actually, the cards "true design" is around 450 W, not 600 W (600 W is true Blackwell spec), but the card would barely exceed the 4090 at the "native specs" so they was clocking it up until it burns i assume.
Simply how it is... gamers actually are getting "garbage Titan chips" and in relative term cost a super load of coins. Although... indeed... the datacenter industry is paying a price equal to a average Tesla car... for each card. They simply got the bucks... a common human can only dream of.
Most likely, if a full scale chip is used, with 96 GB VRAM (so 32 GB is nothing)... but at the "sweet spot" for efficiency... it may use lesser power and still offer more performance vs. a 5090. This is the stuff the AI industry is using...
We simply did lose the value of money... it is soon worth not much more than garbage counted upwards with monstrous numbers.
Of course, i now found so many reasons to give my "thumb down" on what i unfortunately have to see... no need to bother me anymore... this stuff simply is not tasty.
But of course... the RTX 5080 and "lesser" is a own chip for gamer only... because a chip can not be so broken that it may need over 50% of its cores "deactivated"... this is the reason why it got less than half the cores... it simply is a small budget chip, yet at a high price as usual.
The entire matter is just disgusting... to much greed, to less heart and humbleness.
