A circulating report suggests that NVIDIA may stop supplying chips for GeForce RTX 5090 cards and direct GB202 to professional products. A separate suggestion points to an RTX 5080 variant with 24 GB of memory.
The source is a leak, not NVIDIA
Tom’s Hardware describes a notice attributed to an unidentified factory and cites hongxing2020. NVIDIA has not confirmed these changes, so the claimed end of GB202 supplies for the RTX 5090 and a 24 GB RTX 5080 remain rumors.
The business logic would not surprise me
The business logic would not surprise me. The AI market gives NVIDIA a reason to prioritize professional products. From a gamer’s perspective, though, it is frustrating to think that a flagship gaming card could lose the manufacturer’s attention to products aimed at much wealthier customers.
The hardware categories need separating. Not every AI-capable card uses a different memory type from GeForce: the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell uses GDDR7, while large data-center accelerators also use HBM. A blanket distinction between gaming VRAM and entirely different AI VRAM would be misleading.
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell specification
24 GB interests me more than the headline
The possible 24 GB RTX 5080 interests me most. Local AI models can quickly run out of memory, so that version sounds more appealing than the current 16 GB. But a card’s appeal does not end at its capacity. Without a price and confirmed specifications, it is hard to judge whether it would be a good proposition.
More VRAM would not automatically deliver RTX 5090 performance or change what an existing 5080 can do. To me, extra memory matters when it enables a workload the current card cannot fit.
For now, I would rather wait and see. Even if 5090 supplies changed, cards would not necessarily disappear from stock immediately. This rumor is interesting, but gives me no reason to panic buy. Confirmation, specifications and price should come first.
