Is NVIDIA Releasing A Cheaper GeForce RTX 5090 SE? Don't Get Your Hopes Up

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The rumor mill is buzzing today with the prospect of NVIDIA releasing a cheaper GeForce RTX 5090 SE graphics card with 32GB of GDDR7 linked to a 384-bit memory bus. But it's not happening, folks. And yes, I'm well aware that speaking in absolutes can lead to eating crow down the line, but if that happens (it won't), then so be it.

So, what's this all about? A report at GameGPU claims NVIDIA is readying a GeForce RTX 5090 SE to replace a hypothetical GeForce RTX 5080 Ti, which would fill a pricing gap between the GeForce RTX 5080 and the flagship GeForce RTX 5090. That could be semi-believable if not for the rumored specs.

According to the site, the SE variant would employ a partially deactivated GB202 processor. The version in the GeForce RTX 5090 is the GB202-300-A1 with 21,760 CUDA cores in total. The flagship model also...

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