Nvidia may be killing off the RTX 5090 as AI chips take priority over gaming GPUs

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A Failing Industry: Nvidia has reportedly decided to kill its flagship offering in the latest generation of GeForce gaming GPUs. The GeForce RTX 5090 will soon disappear from the market, leakers claim, because the world's most valuable semiconductor designer is going to make much more money off data center AI accelerators.

According to MEGAsizeGPU, Nvidia has "confirmed" that the GB202 chip will not be used to build new RTX 5090 cards anymore. All future GB202 supplies are going to be exclusively used to make more RTX Pro Blackwell-based models, the leaker later confirmed with a new tweet.

Nvidia's alleged decision to remove the RTX 5090 from the market was reiterated by a second leaker known as Hongxing2020. In particular, Hongxing2020 saidthat Huang's corporation is already preparing a replacement, namely a new...

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