My hunch is that Nvidia is not a fool to let the gaming side slip like this.
$1599 "founder's base price for the 5090:
70% faster than the 4090, Nvidia will claim it is 100% faster (in selected scenarios) and 200% fast in RT (in selected scenarios).
DP 2.1, a better stronger energy cable...
Granted, idle to low usage consumption is much more real workload nowadays.
But i like my CPU, bellow the Babel cooling tower of the NH-D15 with 2 ippc3000 that try to control it.
Windows 7 ? I BET that we have WinXP controlling some kind of instrument or sensor.
Anyway, small sized reactors are the way to go (just imagine a autonomous independent aluminium factory or chip fab !)