This may be the end of the road for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, as recent rumours claim the company has stopped manufacturing the flagship graphics card altogether. Nvidia apparently plans to shift focus to its RTX Pro series instead, prioritising workstations and data centres for this silicon. However, the firm may still have some GeForce plans in mind by way of an RTX 5080 refresh.
X user and PC hardware leaker Zed__Wang claims Nvidia is no longer allocating GB202 GPUs to RTX 5090 production, with all new supply now going towards RTX Pro cards instead. If true, this move would most meaningfully impact supply of RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation cards, as this model mirrors the slightly cut-down die of the GeForce RTX 5090, with 21,760 of a maximum 24,576 CUDA cores enabled.
All future GB202 supplies are RTX Pro exclusive
— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) October 10, 2026
This alleged discontinuation doesn’t feel far fetched considering current RTX 5090 prices, with some models pushing beyond $5,090 earlier this year. Looking at PCPartPicker at the time of writing, the cheapest you’ll now find Nvidia’s flagship sits at a whopping $7,178. That’s a 259% increase from the card’s original $1,999 MSRP.
If production of RTX 5090 cards has indeed come to an end, that would explain the lack of supply on store shelves and the subsequent rampant inflation in cost of stock that remains. However, Nvidia is yet to publicly confirm that it’s no longer making the GeForce flagship. We’ve reached out to the company for comment.
5090 EOL🙀，5080 24GB ready 🚀 https://t.co/FUc1igiwlD
— hongxing2020 (@hongxing2020) October 10, 2026
Fellow X leaker hongxing2020 echoes Zed__Wang’s claims of the RTX 5090’s demise, suggesting the RTX 5090D is also heading for the great graphics card gig in the sky. However, the user also shares that Nvidia is preparing to sunset the GeForce RTX 5080, replacing the current model with a 24GB refresh.
It’s unclear why Nvidia would bother launching an RTX 5080 with 24GB of GDDR7 now, rather than 16GB, as doing so would naturally prove exorbitantly more expensive owing to the 33% bump in memory. My best guess is that this would serve as a peace offering of sorts following the discontinuation of the RTX 5090, but such a gesture feels like a half measure than a true replacement.
https://t.co/JYQl6jWGFP：
“另一方面，NVIDIA 計畫在 2027 年第一季推出 GeForce RTX 5080 24GB GDDR7 顯示卡，其目的是為了取代現行的 GeForce RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7，只是到目前為止，AIC 合作夥伴都未收到任何開發資料，僅獲得口頭上的告知相關產品的開發資料將會在近期給出。”— Ruby_Rapids (@RubyRapids) October 10, 2026
Tech outlet Benchlife reports that Nvidia plans to launch the RTX 5080 24GB in Q1 2027, making CES 2027 a logical launch platform. However, the site says that board partners (MSI, Gigabyte, etc.) haven’t received any information on the card beyond the intent to launch in that period.
It’s unclear whether the RTX 5080 24GB signals the possible launch of a wider GeForce RTX 50 Super series. There’s every chance we could see other graphics cards receive a VRAM boost, but the memory crisis could still give the company cold feet when it comes to gaming tech, as it apparently has for months now.
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