You haven’t missed your chance to pick up a GeForce RTX 5090, according to Nvidia’s Jeff Fisher. The senior vice president said the company hasn’t discontinued this GPU, despite a growing number of reports and signs from retailers that indicate otherwise.
Taiwanese PC hardware outlet 4Gamers shared quotes from an interview with Fisher, at the RTX Spark launch party. When asked about the production status of the RTX 5090, he said (via machine translation): “it has not been discontinued, and Nvidia will continue shipping, which is very important.”
Fisher highlights that “supply chain (capacity) is indeed somewhat constrained, but Nvidia is fully committed to bringing products to market.” Nvidia has near-complete control over its GB202 GPU die stock, which RTX 5090 cards share with the more-expensive (and profitable) RTX Pro Series. As such, Fisher may be alluding to the firm’s challenges in procuring (and justifying) GDDR7 memory modules for consumer graphics cards.
We’ve reached out to Nvidia repeatedly in the wake of growing RTX 5090 discontinuation reports, but have yet to receive an official response. In the meantime, retailer Micro Center lists the graphics card as “not carried,” with customer service telling us that it “had not yet received any information regarding whether or when it will be restocked.”
Electronics store B&H seemed more optimistic about the RTX 5090 stock situation when we opened up a support ticket, informing us that it expected to receive more stock. However, the agent couldn’t be certain, and caveated that “it is possible that there are still units available through distribution channels until they are sold out.”
At the time of writing, the cheapest RTX 5090 graphics cards on the market sit at £5,392 / $7,888, a whopping 178% / 295% above its original MSRP, with no signs of returning to their original prices. Those without incredibly deep pockets may find some solace in the rumoured GeForce RTX 5080 Super 24GB, but we’d expect that pixel pusher to cost closer to £2,000 / £2,000 given its higher memory capacity relative to the stock RTX 5080 16GB.
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