Nvidia Reportedly Halts Production of RTX 5090, Top-Tier Gaming GPU Yields to High-Priced Professional Cards

动察 Beating AI News Flash: Nvidia may discontinue its most powerful consumer-grade graphics card, the RTX 5090, to allocate core chips to higher-priced professional graphics cards. Hardware leaker MEGAsizeGPU claims that future production of GB202 chips will be entirely supplied for the RTX PRO series and no longer used for the RTX 5090. Another leaker, hongxing2020, posted what appears to be a factory notice, stating that the China-specific version is also within the scope of discontinuation.

These two types of graphics cards use the same series of GB202 chips, but their prices differ greatly. The RTX 5090 is equipped with 32GB of VRAM and has a launch price of $1,999. The RTX PRO 6000, aimed at AI development, design, and rendering, has 96GB of VRAM and is listed at $16,000 on Nvidia's official website, 8 times that of the former. Although the selling price cannot directly represent profit, the high-priced professional market clearly offers Nvidia greater revenue potential.

The RTX 5090 has already seen obvious shortages in the U.S. market, with some third-party sellers even listing it at $9,600. If the discontinuation is true, consumers will in the future have to rely only on remaining inventory.

A bigger change may be a regression in GeForce flagship performance. Another leak claims that Nvidia is preparing to launch a 24GB version of the RTX 5080 to replace the RTX 5090 as its highest-end gaming graphics card. The current RTX 5080 has only about half the number of CUDA cores as the RTX 5090, with about 30% lower 4K gaming performance. Even if the new version's VRAM is increased to 24GB, it is still lower than the RTX 5090's 32GB.