DeepSeek reportedly buying RTX 5090s for inference, drying up retail stock
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-09-24
A report claims DeepSeek is running smaller-model inference on NVIDIA RTX 5090 gaming GPUs, which has dried up retail availability. Commenters quip that global markets now price in NVIDIA gaming GPUs alongside diesel.
If true, it shows inference demand for cost-effective compute spilling into the consumer GPU market (unverified).
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