Nvidia is reportedly ending the RTX 5090, and local AI loses its 32 GB card

Nvidia has said nothing. What exists is a rumor, tagged as such by VideoCardz, that the company is ending GeForce RTX 5090 production and reserving all future GB202 silicon for its professional RTX PRO line. The claim traces to hardware leaker MEGAsizeGPU, who wrote on X that there is "No more GB202 for 5090, confirmed." A second leaker, hongxing2020, posted what looks like a factory notice saying the highest-end GeForce would become a 24 GB RTX 5080. TechPowerUp reports the same. None of it is confirmed by Nvidia.

What the rumor actually says

The GB202 is Nvidia's largest Blackwell desktop die. The RTX 5090 uses a cut-down version of it, and so do the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell and the RTX PRO 5000 workstation cards. The reported plan is to send every newly produced GB202 chip to RTX PRO, which would end GeForce production on that die and take the 5090 and its China-market D variants with it. MEGAsizeGPU has not confirmed the 5080 half. hongxing2020's note reads, in English: "NVIDIA will no longer sell any RTX 5090 models, including the D variants," and says the top GeForce will be an RTX 5080 24GB. Nvidia has announced no end-of-production date.

Where local AI pays for this

For people who buy a GPU to run models rather than games, the spec that matters is not the CUDA count. It is memory, and the 5090's 32 GB became the affordable way to hold a mid-size model in VRAM without a workstation card. The rumored replacement at the top of the GeForce stack is a 24 GB RTX 5080 — eight gigabytes less, on the one number this class of buyer actually pays for.

• RTX 5090: 32 GB GDDR7, 21,760 CUDA cores, 575 W
• RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (same die): 24,064 CUDA cores, 96 GB GDDR7
• Rumored top GeForce: RTX 5080, 24 GB GDDR7

The price is consistent, not proof

VideoCardz notes the 5090 has been selling at $7,000 to $9,600, which on its own suggests production has slowed or stopped. That is consistent with the rumor, not proof of it. The outlet also recalls reporting a 24 GB RTX 5080 back in September 2024, later tied to the RTX 5080 SUPER, and that in July 2026 RTX 50 SUPER cards reached a board partner before Nvidia held the launch over the cost of 3 GB GDDR7 modules. We have tracked the card vanishing from first-party retail and off the shelves at Micro Center; the supply story has been building for weeks. What would settle it is a price and a board partner model a buyer can order, not another post.