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Shaunodon said:

I imagine they haven't completely decided whether or not they want to abandon the gaming sector just yet, so they're basically treating this like a placeholder generation and just throwing out the bare minimum of product they can get away with, along with it's minimal improvements on the previous generation.

They were already doing the R&D for Blackwell regardless, so throwing a few scraps to the gaming sector is hardly that much more effort for them.

They at least want people to still believe they're a major player in the market even while they currently don't care much about it.

Nvidia isn't leaving the gaming anytime soon. And you can tell for several reasons:

The more obvious one is Jensen, He's the kind of man that not only wants to win at everything he does, but wants to actually dominate. I don't remember during the launch of which cards it happened, but there's a story of Jensen bringing all the higher ups at Nvidia to the same place after the launch of those cards didn't go well to ask them "Who did this to me". Not to the company, but to him. Because he is Nvidia and he doesn't like to lose. And that's precisely what would look like if Nvidia left the gaming sector, it would be read by him as accepting defeat, and he'll never accept that. The catastrophic launch of Blackwell will only spur him to go above and beyond with the 6000 series to make people forget the 5000 series and its launch.

Another reason is that while not as big as the AI/datacenter market, the gaming market is still quite big by itself, and it can bring a lot of money to the company that leads. This is the money Nvidia used to bring themselves to where they are now, and they're not going to leave it now so someone else like AMD or Intel can take it and use it to grow and develop higher-end hardware and software that may threaten Nvidia in the future.

The last point I'll make is more mundane and practical: the 5000 series cooler. You don't spend millions developing a revolutionary cooler design that is all but irrelevant for AI/datacenters only to leave the market a couple years later. It's a long term investment for future products.

Last edited by JEMC - on 27 March 2025