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Nvidia RTX 5090 Reportedly Dead, but It's So Expensive That It Doesn't Really Matter

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Nvidia RTX 5090 Reportedly Dead, but It's So Expensive That It Doesn't Really Matter

While the RTX 5090 was already hard enough to get at a reasonable price, new leaks suggest that Nvidia is flat-out discontinuing its flagship graphics card.

GPU leaker zed__wang on Twitter posted about the RTX 5090, saying there would be "No more GB202 for 5090, confirmed." They then followed up with a quote tweet, saying "All future GB202 supplies are RTX Pro exclusive."

For the uninitiated, GB202 is the name of the actual GPU die that powers the RTX 5090, and it has always powered more than just the RTX 5090. Instead, the GB202 powers nine distinct workstation and data center GPUs, according to TechPowerUp. It shouldn't be too surprising, then, that Nvidia would opt to prioritize much more expensive graphics cards like the Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, which costs around $18,000, rather than the RTX 5090, which costs around $9,000 on Newegg these days.

Nvidia also hasn't been shy about prioritizing AI over the gaming division, with the company dropping gaming from its earnings report, and working it into the 'Edge Computing' category.

But, while the leak suggests that the discontinuation of the RTX 5090 is confirmed, it is anything but. Nvidia hasn't commented on its flagship card going away. That doesn't mean much on the surface, but if you look back to February, similar rumors were spinning up about the RTX 5070 Ti, and no matter how convincing those leaks were, they ended up being completely false.

I've asked Nvidia for comment and will update this article if I hear back, but I suspect that this RTX 5090 situation is very similar.


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