Latest Rumors Claim the GeForce RTX 5090 Is Doomed, and NVIDIA Will Replace It with the RTX 5080 24GB as Its Consumer Flagship Offering

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By Peter Brosdahl

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If the latest rumors pan out to be accurate, then NVIDIA could soon be ending production of its current flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 5090, only to replace it with an upgraded version of the RTX 5080. So what’s a company to do when its highest-priced consumer product edges closer to its lowest costing profesional offering? Well, in NVIDIA’s case, it looks like it’s going to opt to cease production of said product, namely the GeForce RTX 5090, which originally launched with an MSRP of $1,999 and can now be found for upwards of $9,600. Meanwhile, the RTX 6000 Pro, with its 96 GB of memory and using the same GB202 die, originally launched for $8,655 and now goes for $16,000.

Much like its gaming counterpart, the RTX 6000 Pro is available in different versions and price points, but aside from more GDDR7 VRAM, it features the fully unlocked GB202 die with 24,064 CUDA cores vs. 21,760 on the RTX 5090. The two also share the same 512-bit memory bus. In addition, the RTX Pro 5000 series also uses the GB202 die but with 48GB GDDR7 on a 384-bit bus and goes for between $8K and $10K. According to industry info leaker MEGAsizeGPU, NVIDIA is choosing to use the GB202 die exclusively in its RTX Pro series graphics cards.

If true, this would be yet another setback for the consumer gaming market that has not seen any new GPUs in 2026 from Team Green and NVIDIA’s partners. NVIDIA already competes with its partners through sales of its in-house manufactured Founders Edition graphics cards, but by ceasing production of the RTX 5090 and its further cutdown overseas variant, the 5090D, it will mean one less product its partners have to offer. If there can be any silver lining to this, another hardware info leaker has claimed that the long-rumored GeForce RTX 5080 24GB is back in the game and factories are already being notified it will replace its 16GB counterpart. The following, per hongxing2020, translated via VideoCardz:

“We have received a notification from the factory: NVIDIA will no longer sell any RTX 5090 models, including the D variants. Going forward, the highest-end GeForce model will be the RTX 5080 24GB, and the RTX 5080 16GB version will be discontinued. Please take note.”

In a sense, the RTX 5080 24 GB already exists in the form of the RTX 5090 mobile that uses a cutdown version of the GB203 die seen in the desktop RTX 5080. It’s long been said that the current RTX 5080 16GB already uses a fully unlocked version of GB203, so a memory upgrade is the most notable performance improvement, and perhaps higher clocks, that could be made for this card, which has long been rumored to be a “SUPER” product. However, before anyone begins jumping up and down and waving their arms in excitement, pricing is sure to be an issue, and more than a few are expecting this card to launch at $2,000, but good luck getting one even if it does, thanks to scalper bots and an obvious demand for local AI usage.

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Peter Brosdahl
As a child of the 70’s I was part of the many who became enthralled by the video arcade invasion of the 1980’s. Saving money from various odd jobs I purchased my first computer from a friend of my dad, a used Atari 400, around 1982. Eventually it would end up being a lifelong passion of upgrading and modifying equipment that, of course, led into a career in IT support.

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