Nvidia reportedly ends GeForce RTX 5090 production, shifting top GB202 chips to professional cards
According to an unverified factory notification cited by leaker @hongxing2020, Nvidia will stop making RTX 5090 cards, including the China-market D variants, with the RTX 5080 24GB reportedly replacing the 16GB model as the top GeForce card. Nvidia has not commented, and Tom's Hardware reports that it typically does not respond to rumours. The reported logic is margin: the RTX Pro 5500 uses the same 21,760 CUDA cores but sells for more, and the RTX Pro 6000 costs around €13,800 (US$15,000).
Bottom line — If confirmed, Nvidia would leave the GeForce range without a GB202 flagship until Rubin-based cards arrive, possibly in 2027 or 2028.
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The RTX Pro 5500 pairs the RTX 5090's GB202 core with 84GB of GDDR7 instead of 32GB, a configuration PCTuning.cz says uses a clamshell layout with 28 memory modules and a 448-bit bus.
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PCTuning.cz estimates the RTX Pro 5500 at around 310,000 Kč (about €12,400), based on the listed prices of the RTX Pro 6000 at 399,990 Kč and the RTX Pro 5000 at 242,999 Kč.
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Tom's Hardware notes that existing partner and retailer inventories could keep RTX 5090 boards on shelves for a while, though availability and prices would be expected to fall once supply stops.
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VideoCardz reports third-party sellers asking as much as $9,500 (about €8,200) for an RTX 5090, and eTeknix reports BenchLife's claim that board partners have stopped receiving chips for production.
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eTeknix says BenchLife expects the RTX 5080 24GB in the first quarter of 2027, while VideoCardz notes that a 24GB RTX 5080 SUPER launch was previously put on hold because of the cost of 3GB GDDR7 modules.
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MEGAsizeGPU's claim that future GB202 supply is reserved for RTX PRO cards is separate from the factory-notice claim about the RTX 5080 24GB, and VideoCardz says MEGAsizeGPU has not confirmed that second part.