Something appears to be brewing over at NVIDIA with its RTX 50 SUPER series making headlines again, new trading cards, and now the possibility of another RTX 50 series GPU. Those hoping for a new flagship are out of luck, but instead, we could see a new product to fill the gap between the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090. A new rumor claims that NVIDIA is readying the GeForce RTX 5090 SE, which will use a cut-down version of the GB202 die powering its flagship model. While the rumored specs do not match those seen in the overseas RTX 5090D or 5090D V2, which was made to meet export regulatory guidelines, the RTX 5090 SE could see a global release.
While at one point there were rumors that NVIDIA might offer an RTX 5080 SUPER or RTX 5080 Ti using the same GB203 die as the current model due to it reportedly already having fully enabled silicon, but with 24 GB GDDR7 vs the current 16 GB GDDR7 offered, it seems this potential new product (via GameGPU)will instead fill the gap between the two tiers. Ironically, the same GB203 die is used for NVIDIA’s mobile RTX 5090 GPU and is paired with 24 GB GDDR7 on a 256-bit bus. According to the rumor, only 110 of the fully enabled 192 SMs will be enabled for the 5090 SE, which equates to 14,080 CUDA cores vs 21,760 of the current non-SE model.
| RTX 5090 SE (rumored) | RTX 5090D V2 | RTX 5090 | Fully enabled GB202 die | |
| CUDA Cores | 14,080 | 21,760 | 21,760 | 24,576 |
| RT Cores | 110 | 170 | 192 | |
| Tensor Cores | 440 | 680 | 768 | |
| Memory Bus/Size/Type | 384-bit/32 GB GDDR7 | 384-bit/32 GB GDDR7 | 512-bit 32 GB GDDR7 | —- |
| Memory Bandwidth | 1.34 TB/s | 1.34 TB/s | 1.79 TB/s | |
| L2 Cache | 80 MB | 96 MB | 96 MB | 128 MB |
| TGP | 500W | 575W | 575W |
Pricing for the RTX 5090 SE is speculated to be ~$1,500, but given current market conditions and ongoing scalping practices, it’ll likely be found going for at least double that amount.