Big AI beasts reportedly delay Nvidia Blackwell orders due to GPU overheating but it doesn't worry us for RTX 50 gaming cards

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Nvidia's biggest customers for AI chips, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta, have reportedly cut their orders for the new Blackwell series of GPUs due to overheating issues. However, that doesn't worry us for Nvidia's new RTX 50 family of gaming GPUs, despite them also being based on the Blackwell architecture.

The Information (paywall, via Reuters) claims that overheating and other related "glitches" have caused customers to delay Blackwell orders or switch to Nvidia's earlier and presumably less problematic "Hopper" generation of AI-optimized GPUs.