I had the same problem. I fixed this by downloading the latest tumbleweed binutils rpm and installing with sudo rpm -ivh --force --noscripts --nodeps --replacepkgs ./binutils-2.45-3.1.x86_64.rpm. Then, I ran your standard zypper in -f binutils to smooth it over. I also did a rollback from nvidia problems.
I suppose my situation is similar to what @malcolmlewis pointed out as well. 10k packages to be installed(!) Granted, I have all the latex packages installed