Nvidia literally finished the 24GB RTX 50 Super — then shelved it over a $50 chip. you can't make this up

the cards are done. they're sitting at board partners right now. what's stopping them from shipping? a single memory chip that costs about $50 more…

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Ravi Malhotra · Hardware Editor

Why a 50% bigger chip costs 3x, not 1.5x

Higher-density memory dies aren't a linear scale-up — they're a harder manufacturing target on the same process, competing for the same fabs currently running flat-out for AI-datacenter HBM and GDDR…

What this means if you're buying for local AI, not just gaming

A 24 GB RTX 5080 Super would be a real jump for local-AI builds — it's the difference between a card that handles a 13B model comfortably and one that starts to fit the low end of 30B-class weights…

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Nvidia literally finished the 24GB RTX 50 Super — then shelved it over a $50 chip. you can't make this up

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