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RTX 5090 May Be Losing Its Chips to AI

Official NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on a black and green background.

The world’s fastest GeForce card may be running into the same problem as the rest of the PC market: AI pays more.

Fresh supply-chain reports say NVIDIA may be ending new GeForce RTX 5090 production and redirecting future GB202 chips toward higher-margin RTX PRO and data-center products.

This is not an official NVIDIA announcement. Tom’s Hardware and VideoCardz both trace the claim to hardware leakers citing factory information.

Hardware leaker MEGAsizeGPU says future GB202 supply will be reserved for RTX PRO products. NVIDIA has not confirmed the claim.

Why GB202 matters

The RTX 5090 uses NVIDIA’s giant Blackwell-class GB202 silicon. NVIDIA’s own launch material describes the 5090 as a 92-billion-transistor flagship with 32GB of GDDR7 memory.

The same basic silicon family also feeds professional products. NVIDIA says the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell carries up to 96GB of GDDR7 and targets AI, simulation, rendering, and data-center workloads.

Official NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition graphics processor, a professional product built on the same GB202 family used by the RTX 5090.
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition. Professional and AI products can generate much more revenue from large Blackwell dies than consumer gaming cards. Official NVIDIA newsroom image.

That creates an obvious business choice

If one scarce GPU die can become either a gaming card or a much more expensive professional accelerator, NVIDIA has a strong incentive to prioritize the product with the better economics.

That is the same broader trend BitcoinVersus has been tracking as Wall Street builds financing around NVIDIA GPUs and AI companies treat accelerator supply like strategic infrastructure rather than ordinary computer hardware.

For gamers, the practical issue is simpler: fewer GB202 chips flowing into GeForce cards would mean fewer RTX 5090s reaching stores.

Hardware Unboxed’s RTX 5090 review shows why the card became the flagship of NVIDIA’s consumer lineup—and why losing fresh supply would matter to high-end PC builders.

A 24GB RTX 5080 is also rumored

A second leak claims NVIDIA could replace today’s 16GB RTX 5080 with a 24GB model and leave that card as the top active GeForce product.

That part is even less certain. NVIDIA has not announced a 24GB RTX 5080 or confirmed that the 16GB model is being discontinued.

Still, more VRAM would make sense if NVIDIA wants a new gaming flagship below GB202. BitcoinVersus recently explained why VRAM capacity increasingly matters for high-resolution gaming, AI, and creator workloads.

SmartNews takeaway

The RTX 5090 is not officially dead.

But the rumor is believable for one simple reason: the same premium silicon can earn NVIDIA more money in professional and AI systems than it can inside a gaming PC.

If the report is real, AI is not just making GPUs more valuable. It may be deciding which GPUs gamers get at all.

BitcoinVersus.Tech Editor’s Note: NVIDIA has not confirmed that RTX 5090 production has ended. This article reports an unverified supply-chain claim and clearly distinguishes rumor from official product information.

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