A second leaker, hongxing2020, posted “5090 EOL, 5080 24GB ready” alongside an apparent factory notice stating that NVIDIA will no longer sell an RTX 5090 model, including Chinese market D variants. The same review states that a 24GB RTX 5080 will become the best GeForce card and that the 16GB version will be discontinued. This looks a lot like the RTX 5080 SUPER, which is said to have 24GB of GDDR7 on the same GB203 chip, although it’s unclear if the two are the same card. SUPER cards reportedly reached board partners in July, only to be suspended due to GDDR7 pricing. As for the RTX 5090, I doubt NVIDIA will formally call this an end-of-life (EOL) approach, since the chips are simply being redirected to a more profitable product line.
RTX 5090 buyers were already going through a tough time. The card launched in January 2025 at $1,999, and last month European sales topped €5,000 while Walmart sold for $4,299. Cards built from GB202 chips that partners already have could continue to be released for a while, although it’s reasonable to expect prices to climb further once this stock is exhausted. Of course, the RTX 5090 was hardly a gaming card for most people at this point, with AI companies seemingly buying up inventory in large quantities before it even hit gaming retail. While the RTX 60 series may have slipped to 2028, the RTX 5080 24 GB could remain the fastest GeForce card in production for a long time.
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