> Nvidia not producing consumer cards.

This is a false statement. They’re still producing consumer cards. You can go buy a 5070FE in stock on their web store at MSRP right now. You can buy a discounted 5060 from Best But below MSRP.

They’re changing production priorities for a little while if the rumors are accurate.

RAM prices have always been cyclical and prone to highs and lows. This is an especially high peak but it will pass like everything else.

These predictions that the sky is falling are way too dramatic.

> Is AI going to kill the consumer computer industry?

Even if, the death of the AAA gaming is nothing I will cry about. Most games don't require anything remotely as performant as 5070.

I don't play any AAA games really. The only "AAA" game I've played in the past few years is basically Baldurs Gate 3 and Kingdom Come Deliverance II. But mostly I play rpgs and strategy games that don't require much gpu power at all.

VR games inhale ram. This avoidance of putting any valuable amount of ram in graphics cards is a serious and consistent problem for larger VR games.

There are niches like sim racing which require a high powered GPU if you want to run ultrawide or triple screens though.

Just saying that your grudges with AAA games have a blast effect you might not be aware of.

I don't care about AAA gaming either, it's stale but one day the AI bubble will kill something you cry about though.

That's one possibility. Another is that it's temporary until production can be ramped up (but I doubt it because fabs). Pessimistic take is that the suppliers expect the bubble to pop soon (and very violently) and want to maximize their take while they still can.

Or maybe assuming the trend holds in the longer term it could mean that consumers will move downstream of datacenters. Anyone who wants a GPU rocking 3 to 5 year old recycled enterprise gear.