this will drive up the price of the current 5090D when the lesser model will sell at the same price when it becomes available

Wow. Nvidia “repurposed” GPU’s…

I wonder if those will be just a GB203 with 3GB GDDR7 modules - basically the same as the rumored 5080 Super -, or if it'll be a really cut down GB202 with a 384-bit bus. If the latter, then it could also become a future 5080ti.

Are they back to releasing vastly different spec under the same naming 5090D with 14080 shader 384 bit. 4080 confusion again.

This is probably what the actual RTX 5080 specs should have been

Bjorn_Of_IcelandThis is probably what the actual RTX 5080 specs should have been

Nothing of the sort. The 5080 was always intended to use the GB203 chip from the get go, and there is actually a good reason for it, after all. This is intended to meet the U.S. government restrictions, which were made more restrictive after the launch of the 5090D - to be more specific, made official a few days ago.

www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/ai-chip-export-rules-nvidia.html

Beyond the fact that it's practically twice as fast as the RX 9070 XT at rendering games (and that is where most people stop seeing the big picture), for compute, that goes a step further still. The RTX 5090 is extremely powerful. So powerful, in fact, that it is directly subject to export controls. The RTX 5090D model sold in China had its inferencing performance intentionally reduced by around a third, using firmware and chip level tricks, but it is still deemed too powerful for export for restricted group countries, such as China according to the export restrictions currently in effect. Additionally, countries which aren't on the United States' most privileged export tier, but are allowed to have this product (such as Brazil), face a limitation on how many units can be distributed to them. Nvidia can only ship a certain amount of 5090s to them and must obtain authorization to send more should this limit ever be reached.

As stated in the OP, the supply of 5090D was never too good, and it doesn't surprise me to see its specification being revised down. There is nothing Nvidia can do about this, really, except comply and reduce their product's performance until it meets the specifications.

igormpI wonder if those will be just a GB203 with 3GB GDDR7 modules - basically the same as the rumored 5080 Super -, or if it'll be a really cut down GB202 with a 384-bit bus. If the latter, then it could also become a future 5080ti.

Given the name isn't changing to 5080D or something, it's probably going to be the same 5090D core we currently have with the bandwidth and capacity reduced, with perhaps a further worsened ratio for AI TOPS.

Dr. DroNothing of the sort. The 5080 was always intended to use the GB203 chip from the get go, and there is actually a good reason for it, after all. This is intended to meet the U.S. government restrictions, which were made more restrictive after the launch of the 5090D - to be more specific, made official a few days ago.

www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/ai-chip-export-rules-nvidia.html

Beyond the fact that it's practically twice as fast as the RX 9070 XT at rendering games (and that is where most people stop seeing the big picture), for compute, that goes a step further still. The RTX 5090 is extremely powerful. So powerful, in fact, that it is directly subject to export controls. The RTX 5090D model sold in China had its inferencing performance intentionally reduced by around a third, using firmware and chip level tricks, but it is still deemed too powerful for export for restricted group countries, such as China according to the export restrictions currently in effect. Additionally, countries which aren't on the United States' most privileged export tier, but are allowed to have this product (such as Brazil), face a limitation on how many units can be distributed to them. Nvidia can only ship a certain amount of 5090s to them and must obtain authorization to send more should this limit ever be reached.

As stated in the OP, the supply of 5090D was never too good, and it doesn't surprise me to see its specification being revised down. There is nothing Nvidia can do about this, really, except comply and reduce their product's performance until it meets the specifications.



Given the name isn't changing to 5080D or something, it's probably going to be the same 5090D core we currently have with the bandwidth and capacity reduced, with perhaps a further worsened ratio for AI TOPS.

PC gamers are some of the stupidest and most self centered idiots on the planet. Every GPU sold 8800 on upward was a compute product and not a gaming product. That's the reality. PC gaming is going to rent a GPU in the cloud and every PC gamers who's bought on Steam or bought an 8800 or later card voted for that and paid for it to happen. Congrats! You got what you paid and voted for!

SOAREVERSORPC gamers are some of the stupidest and most self centered idiots on the planet. Every GPU sold 8800 on upward was a compute product and not a gaming product. That's the reality. PC gaming is going to rent a GPU in the cloud and every PC gamers who's bought on Steam or bought an 8800 or later card voted for that and paid for it to happen. Congrats! You got what you paid and voted for!

Well, it wasn't a huge problem until the first crypto bubble happened. In a sense, I think the AI grift is a continuation of that bubble, it's a lot of highly marketable hype with lots of room to make some serious money, so the small guy (in this case, the gamer and content creator) ends up paying the ultimate price.

The only way to dissociate from this problem going forward is to intentionally split consumer and enterprise products across different nodes. The AI market is hungry for high performance accelerators only possible on the latest generation process, and they are willing to pay for this.

Something tells me these will make it stateside under another name.

Guessing, RTX 5080 Ti SUPER?

I assume Nvidia put 8GB VRAM on graphic card to segment a useful card from the cheap entry cards.

SOAREVERSORPC gamers are some of the stupidest and most self centered idiots on the planet.

I'm innocent. I paid a few time short subscriptions to get amazon prime for the games. I never spend any cash on Steam, ubisoft, EA, .... or RGB or fish tank cases or vertical gpu mounts :P