Leaked factory notice says Nvidia will no longer make any RTX 5090 model

GB202 is one die sold at several price points. Its full form, with 24,064 CUDA cores and 96GB of memory, is the RTX 6000 Pro ^[4]. The RTX 5090 uses 21,760 of those cores and carries 32GB ^[3]. That is 90.4% of the full core count (21,760 / 24,064) ^[7]. The RTX Pro 5500 has exactly the 5090's 21,760 cores, more GDDR7, and a target market of professional visualization and AI ^[3].

So every die that ships on a 5090 board is a die Nvidia could have sold on a professional card. Tom's Hardware argues that ending GeForce GB202 boards would stop relatively cheap consumer cards from competing with Nvidia's own accelerators in AI ^[5]. It also argues the move would send limited manufacturing allocation to higher-margin parts at little cost in gaming, because neither the RTX 5080 nor the RTX 5090 has a direct rival ^[5]. We think that reasoning is sound.

For local AI work, the figure that moves is memory per card. The 5090 has 32GB ^[3]. The notice's new flagship has 24GB ^[10]. The largest GeForce frame buffer would shrink by 8GB, or 25% (8 / 32) ^[6]. That card is not yet a shipping product. Tom's Hardware links it to long-rumored RTX 50 Super plans, including a 24GB RTX 5080 Super that was reportedly postponed over memory supply constraints ^[13]. Its argument is that with no 32GB 5090 boards consuming GDDR7, the 24GB card gets better memory supply ^[13].

The sourcing is an unnamed factory, one leaker who posted its notice, and a second who confirmed it ^[9][11]. The notice ends with "Please spread the word" ^[10], a request the internet has honoured. Tom's Hardware describes the claim as unverified and not an official Nvidia announcement ^[1].

We think the economic case makes the notice credible enough for teams that depend on 32GB GeForce cards to plan around it before Nvidia confirms anything.