NVIDIA is reportedly discontinuing the GeForce RTX 5090, its flagship consumer graphics card, with all future supplies of the GB202 chip reserved for the professional RTX PRO lineup. The claim comes from the well-known hardware leaker MEGAsizeGPU, who posted on October 10 that "All future GB202 supplies are RTX Pro exclusive." NVIDIA has not confirmed any of this, so it should be treated as a rumor — but it has already been picked up by China's ITHome, VideoCardz and Taiwan's BenchLife, three outlets with strong track records on NVIDIA supply-chain reporting. For more on this story and others, check our breaking AI news coverage.
If accurate, the move would leave gamers without a path to NVIDIA's biggest Blackwell silicon. The RTX 5080, which uses a smaller die, would become the fastest new GeForce card buyers can get — a steep drop, with roughly half the CUDA cores and half the memory of the card it would replace.
What GB202 Is and Why the Shift Matters
GB202 is the largest desktop Blackwell die NVIDIA produces, and it is 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 affect more than just the standard RTX 5090. The China-specific RTX 5090 D and RTX 5090 D v2 use the same silicon, so all three variants would be swept up in the change at once.
Board Partners Say the Chip Flow Has Already Stopped
BenchLife reports that NVIDIA's board partners have already stopped receiving RTX 5090 chips for production. Notably, the site suggests NVIDIA may not view this as a formal end-of-life decision at all — it may simply be reallocating manufacturing capacity to the product lines that earn the company more money.
The economics are straightforward. A workstation card built on the same die sells for several times the price of a GeForce board, and demand from AI and professional visualization customers has been insatiable. If NVIDIA can sell every GB202 it produces into the RTX PRO channel, dedicating chips to gamers means leaving revenue on the table.
The RTX PRO Lineup Absorbing the Supply
ITHome lists three GB202-based RTX PRO models currently on sale: the RTX PRO 6000, RTX PRO 5500 and RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell. The site adds that the recently launched RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell uses the same GPU configuration as the RTX 5090 and RTX 5090 D v2 — the clearest sign yet of where NVIDIA's priorities for the big die now lie.
For professionals, nothing changes; the cards keep coming. For gamers, the top of the stack would simply evaporate from the market as remaining retail stock sells through.
A 24GB RTX 5080 Rumored to Take the Crown
A second leaker, hongxing2020, shared what is described as a notice from a board factory with a further twist: NVIDIA will not sell any RTX 5090 models, D variants included, and an RTX 5080 with 24GB of memory will become the top GeForce card while the current 16GB version is discontinued. MEGAsizeGPU has not backed up this part of the story, so it sits on shakier ground.
BenchLife goes further, reporting that NVIDIA plans to launch the RTX 5080 24GB in the first quarter of 2027. According to the site, board partners have not been given any development data yet and have only been told verbally that the card is coming.
A 24GB RTX 5080 is not a new idea. VideoCardz first reported the configuration back in September 2024, before Blackwell launched, and later rumors tied the same capacity to a prospective 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.
What It Would Mean for Prices, Stock and AI Buyers
If the rumor holds, existing RTX 5090 stock would become the last of its kind, which historically points to rising street prices as supply thins — the card has already been selling above its launch price for much of its life. Buyers hoping NVIDIA will simply refresh the consumer halo card may be waiting for nothing.
The deeper story is the same one running through the entire AI hardware market: silicon flows to whoever pays the most, and right now that is AI and professional workloads, not gamers. NVIDIA has not commented on the reports, and the company has reversed supply decisions before. Until it confirms anything, the RTX 5090's fate remains a rumor — but one that board partners, scalpers and PC builders are already taking seriously.
Key Facts at a Glance
- Leaker MEGAsizeGPU posted on October 10 that all future GB202 supplies are RTX PRO exclusive
- NVIDIA has not confirmed the claim; ITHome, VideoCardz and BenchLife have all reported on it
- GB202 is NVIDIA's biggest desktop Blackwell die, shared by the RTX 5090, 5090 D, 5090 D v2 and the RTX PRO lineup
- BenchLife says board partners have already stopped receiving RTX 5090 chips for production
- ITHome lists the RTX PRO 6000, 5500 and 5000 Blackwell as the GB202 cards on sale; the PRO 5500 matches the 5090's GPU configuration
- A separate rumor points to a 24GB RTX 5080 launching in Q1 2027 as the new flagship GeForce card
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