Nvidia Reportedly Halts GB202 Production for RTX 5090

Nvidia has reportedly stopped selling GB202 graphics processors for consumer GeForce RTX 5090-series add-in boards, including the 'D' variants intended for the Chinese market, according to Tom's Hardware. From now on, the GB202 silicon will reportedly be used exclusively on data center and professional graphics cards.

According to the same report, the highest-end GeForce graphics card going forward will be the RTX 5080 24GB, while the RTX 5080 16GB version will be discontinued. Nvidia has not officially confirmed the report and has yet to respond to a request for comment.

The GB202 die sits at the top of Nvidia's consumer GPU stack, and the report claims its allocation is shifting entirely to data center and professional products. If accurate, the move would leave the RTX 5080 24GB as the flagship consumer card in the GeForce RTX 50-series lineup.

Background

Nvidia's recently introduced RTX Pro 5500 features 21,760 CUDA cores, the same as the GeForce RTX 5090, but with 84GB of GDDR7 memory. The fully-fledged RTX 6000 Pro with 24,064 CUDA cores and 96GB of memory can easily sell for $15,000. Nvidia has long been rumored to be developing GeForce RTX 50 Super graphics cards, including an RTX 5080 Super with 24GB of GDDR7 memory, although their introduction has reportedly been postponed due to memory supply constraints. Nvidia is also developing its next-generation Rubin-based GeForce RTX 60-series GPUs, but recent rumors suggest that these products will not arrive until late 2027, or even 2028.