Nvidia Might Kill the RTX 5090 and Replace It With a 24GB RTX 5080
Nvidia is rumored to be shutting down production of its flagship gaming graphics card, the RTX 5090. This would help shift production to the more profitable RTX Pro line, which somehow costs even more than the RTX 5090.
This is just speculation from a reliable leaker, so don't consider it gospel, but it wouldn't be a surprise to see Nvidia sunset what has effectively become an AI card anyway. With prices reaching over $12,000 for the RTX 5090 in some cases, gamers aren't buying it anymore, even if Chinese exporters are.
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In their X post, leaker Zed_Wang claims that the underlying GPU at the heart of these cards, GB202, will be used only in the RTX Pro from now on. That means both the 96GB RTX Pro 6000 and the more modest RTX Pro 5000 with a mere 48GB of VRAM.
Alongside this rumor sits another...
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