Hardware leakers @hongxing2020 and @Zed__Wang, who have a track record on graphics card market news, shared what they said was a factory notice stating that Nvidia will no longer manufacture any RTX 5090 models, including the D variants. The notice also said the highest-end GeForce card going forward will be an RTX 5080 with 24GB of memory, and that the 16GB version will be discontinued.
The claim is unverified and is not an official Nvidia announcement. Tom's Hardware said it asked Nvidia for comment and the company has yet to respond, noting that Nvidia typically does not comment on rumors.
The alleged decision would make economic sense for Nvidia. The same GB202 processor powers the recently introduced RTX Pro 5500, which matches the RTX 5090's 21,760 CUDA cores but comes with 84GB of GDDR7 memory instead of 32GB and targets higher-priced professional visualization and AI workloads. The fully featured RTX 6000 Pro, with 96GB of memory, can sell for around $15,000. Redirecting scarce manufacturing capacity to these products would let Nvidia earn more per chip while avoiding competition between its consumer cards and its lucrative professional accelerators.
Even if shipments have stopped, RTX 5090 boards are unlikely to vanish immediately. Add-in-board partners, distributors and retailers probably hold enough inventory to sustain availability for a while, but prices would likely rise as supply runs down.
The move could also point to a refresh of the RTX 50-series lineup. Nvidia has long been rumored to be working on RTX 50 Super cards, including an RTX 5080 Super with 24GB of GDDR7 memory, though introduction has reportedly been delayed by memory supply constraints. With the RTX 5090 32GB gone, a 24GB RTX 5080 would face less memory competition.
Nvidia's next-generation Rubin-based RTX 60-series GPUs are not expected until late 2027 or possibly 2028, according to recent rumors, which would make the RTX 5080's role as the flagship consumer card an extended one if the reports prove accurate.