It was not actually. The last time this was the case was Maxwell: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gm200.g772 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs

It was not actually. The last time this was the case was Maxwell: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gm200.g772 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gm200.g772 Beginning with Pascal, Nvidia’s top GPU was not available in consumer graphics cards: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gp100.g792 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gp100.g792 Turing was a bit weird since instead of having a TU100, they instead had Volta’s GV100: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-tu102.g813 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-tu102.g813 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gv100.g809 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gv100.g809 Then there is Ampere’s GA100 that never was used in a consumer graphics card: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-ga100.g931 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-ga100.g931 Ada was again weird as instead of a AD100, it had the GH100: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-ad102.g1005 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-ad102.g1005 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gh100.g1011 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gh100.g1011 Now with Blackwell the GB100 is the high end one that is not going into consumer cards. The 5090 gets GB202 and the 5080 gets GB203. Rather than the 40 series and 50 series putting the #2 GPU die into the #2 consumer card, they are putting the #3 GPU die into the #2 consumer card.