Why it matters: Reports of the RTX 5090's death may have been exaggerated. That's according to Nvidia, which recently confirmed that the flagship consumer card was still in production. However, that denial doesn't seem to line up with Nvidia's own US marketplace, where the RTX 5090 is conspicuously absent.

Prolific leaker MEGAsizeGPU last week wrote that Nvidia had "confirmed" the GB202 chip used in the RTX 5090 would no longer be used in new RTX 5090 cards. Instead, future supplies of the GPU would be used exclusively for RTX Pro Blackwell-based models.

Another leaker, Hongxing2020, said Nvidia would replace the RTX 5090 with a new RTX 5080 variant packing 24GB of VRAM.

Now, 4Gamers reports that Nvidia has denied the reports at an RTX Spark launch party event in Taipei, Taiwan.

Jeff Fisher, Nvidia's senior vice president of personal computing, talked about CUDA and how there would be no AI market today without it.

"The supply chain (capacity) is indeed somewhat constrained, but NVIDIA is fully committed to bringing products to market. Although there are other variants of the RTX 5090 chip, it has not been discontinued, and Nvidia will continue shipping, which is very important," Fisher said, according to the machine-translated site.

That all sounds pretty definitive, but it's at odds with Nvidia's official US marketplace. The option to see RTX 5090 cards has been removed completely, with the RTX 5080 sitting at the top of the list.

There are some RTX 5090 cards available on Newegg. The majority are over $9,300, with the most expensive model priced at $10,899.

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