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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by 6SixTy on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @01:57PM (#42625935)
Nvidia wants you to buy their datacenter or professional cards for AI. Those often come with better perf/W targets, more VRAM, and better form factors allowing for a higher compute density.

For consumers, they do not care.

PCIe Gen 4 dictates a tighter tolerance on signalling to achieve a faster bus speed, and it took quite a good amount of time for good quality Gen 4 risers to come to market. I have zero doubt in my mind that Gen 5 steps that up even further making the product design just that much harder.

Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by throwaway48476 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:06PM (#42627462)
In the server space there is gen 5 cabling but not gen 5 risers.
Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by throwaway2037 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:25PM (#42630220)

    > gen 5 cabling
Do you mean OCuLink? Honestly, I never thought about how 1U+ rackmount servers handle PCIe Gen5 wiring/timing issues between NVMe drives (front), GPUs/NICs (rear), and CPUs (middle).
Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by throwaway48476 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:51PM (#42630369)
OCuLink has been superseded by MCIO. I was speaking of the custom gen 5 cabled nvme backplane most servers have.