{"id":798137,"date":"2026-10-10T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798137\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:00:11","slug":"rtx-5090-discontinued-nvidia-reportedly-moves-gb202-to-rtx-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798137\/","title":{"rendered":"RTX 5090 Discontinued? NVIDIA Reportedly Moves GB202 to RTX PRO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nvidia<\/a> <\/p>\n

NVIDIA will reportedly stop supplying GB202 GPUs for GeForce cards altogether, which would effectively see the RTX 5090 discontinued and leave gamers with the RTX 5080 as the fastest new card they can buy. The claim comes from well-known leaker MEGAsizeGPU, who posted on the 10th October that \u201cAll future GB202 supplies are RTX Pro exclusive\u201d. NVIDIA hasn\u2019t confirmed any of this, so treat it as a rumour for now.<\/p>\n

The story was picked up by IT\u4e4b\u5bb6 (ITHome)<\/a>, VideoCardz<\/a> and Taiwan\u2019s BenchLife<\/a>, with a second leaker adding a detail that matters just as much to anyone planning a high-end build: a 24GB RTX 5080 may be on the way to replace the current 16GB model.<\/p>\n

Why GB202 Is Going to Workstations <\/p>\n

GB202 is the biggest desktop Blackwell die NVIDIA makes, and it\u2019s shared between the gaming flagship and the professional lineup. According to MEGAsizeGPU, every GB202 chip produced from now on will go into RTX PRO Blackwell cards rather than GeForce boards. That would hit the standard RTX 5090 as well as the China-specific RTX 5090 D and RTX 5090 D v2, since all three use the same silicon.<\/p>\n

BenchLife says board partners have already stopped receiving RTX 5090 chips for production. It also suggests NVIDIA may not see this as a formal end-of-life decision at all, but simply as moving its capacity to product lines that earn more money. Given what a workstation card sells for compared with a GeForce one, that\u2019s not hard to believe.<\/p>\n

ITHome lists three GB202-based RTX PRO models currently on sale: the RTX PRO 6000, 5500 and 5000 Blackwell. It adds that the recently launched RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell uses the same GPU configuration as the RTX 5090 and 5090 D v2. Here\u2019s how the key cards compare:<\/p>\n

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: GB202, 24,064 CUDA cores, 96GB GDDR7 GeForce RTX 5090: GB202-300, 21,760 CUDA cores, 32GB GDDR7 on a 512-bit bus, 575W GeForce RTX 5090 D v2: GB202-240, 21,760 CUDA cores, 24GB GDDR7 on a 384-bit bus, 575W GeForce RTX 5080: GB203-400, 10,752 CUDA cores, 16GB GDDR7 on a 256-bit bus, 360W <\/p>\n

Those numbers show how big the drop is. If new 5090 stock dries up, the next card down has roughly half the CUDA cores and half the memory.<\/p>\n

RTX 5080 24GB Tipped to Replace the 16GB Model <\/p>\n

The second part of the rumour comes from leaker hongxing2020, who shared what\u2019s described as a notice from a factory. It says NVIDIA won\u2019t sell any RTX 5090 models, D variants included, and that an RTX 5080 24GB will become the top GeForce card while the 16GB version is discontinued. MEGAsizeGPU hasn\u2019t backed up this part of the story, so it does sit on slightly shakier ground.<\/p>\n

\"Msi<\/a> <\/p>\n

BenchLife goes further, saying NVIDIA plans to launch the RTX 5080 24GB in the first quarter of 2027. According to the site, board partners haven\u2019t been given any development data yet and have only been told verbally that it\u2019s coming soon.<\/p>\n

A 24GB RTX 5080 isn\u2019t a new idea. VideoCardz first reported the configuration back in September 2024, before Blackwell launched, and later rumours tied the same capacity to an RTX 5080 SUPER. In July 2026, the site reported that RTX 50 SUPER cards had reached at least one board partner, but that NVIDIA had put the launch on hold because 3GB GDDR7 modules were too expensive. That\u2019s exactly the kind of module you\u2019d need to get 24GB onto the 5080\u2019s 256-bit bus, so whatever happens to memory pricing will likely decide when this card actually appears, if at all.<\/p>\n

RTX 5090 Discontinued \u2013 What It Means For Buyers <\/p>\n

For most people, the RTX 5090 left the realistic retail shopping list a while ago. We spoke about the card nearing $5,000 as AI companies bought graphics cards by the pallet<\/a>, and it\u2019s recently been selling for much more. Prices that high fit with supply drying up well before any official word and it\u2019s a trend we\u2019ve seen before.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve been holding out for a 5090 to come back down to sensible money, this rumour suggests it simply won\u2019t. Remaining stock is all that\u2019s left, and dwindling supply rarely pushes prices lower.<\/p>\n

The bigger worry is the gap at the top of the GeForce range. A 24GB RTX 5080 would help with VRAM-hungry games, local AI work and high-resolution texture packs, but it won\u2019t match a 5090 for raw performance, and with reports that NVIDIA and AMD may delay their next-generation graphics cards until 2028<\/a>, there may not be a true flagship successor for a long time.<\/p>\n

It all points the same way. When NVIDIA can sell the same die for far more in a workstation or AI card, gaming gets whatever\u2019s left over, and right now that\u2019s less than ever.<\/p>\n

Would a 24GB RTX 5080 tempt you, or are you sitting tight until the next generation arrives? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NVIDIA will reportedly stop supplying GB202 GPUs for GeForce cards altogether, which would effectively see the RTX 5090…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}