Sunday, September 14th 2025
NVIDIA Pulls GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Founders Edition from Its Marketplace
NVIDIA has quietly removed its GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics cards from its online marketplace. This removal seems to affect all international online stores, including those in the US, Germany, the UK, and France. In the US, NVIDIA now only offers the Founders Edition version of the GeForce RTX 5070, which includes a Borderlands 4 game as a bonus. The Founders Edition versions of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are absent, with AIB-designed versions taking their place. The situation is similar in the UK, while stores in France and Germany only list the RTX 5070 and RTX 5080 Founders Editions, with no RTX 5090 Founders Edition available.
One possible reason for this could be that NVIDIA is preparing a mid-cycle refresh with the RTX 50 SUPER series and wants to avoid excess inventory of non-SUPER models. However, this would mainly affect the RTX 5070 and RTX 5080, which are rumored to receive the SUPER upgrade. There is no clear explanation for the absence of the RTX 5090 Founders Edition from all global stores, especially given the high demand and record-breaking gaming revenues. An End-of-Life (EOL) scenario seems unlikely. We can only speculate about NVIDIA's reasons for this removal, but it might be an inventory adjustment, as NVIDIA could have distributed too many of these models to other retailers, leaving none for its own store. We will continue to monitor the marketplace for updates in the coming days.
Update 15:47 UTC: An NVIDIA spokesperson for Wccftech confirmed that "GeForce RTX 50 series Founders Editions continue to be in production. They are limited edition products so, from time to time, go out of stock on our website and return when back in stock." So there are no long-term reasons for potential buyers to worry about.
Below are the screenshots with the available Founders Edition SKUs at the time of writing. The listings are presented in an order of: US, UK, Germany, and France.
Source:
via ComputerBase.de
One possible reason for this could be that NVIDIA is preparing a mid-cycle refresh with the RTX 50 SUPER series and wants to avoid excess inventory of non-SUPER models. However, this would mainly affect the RTX 5070 and RTX 5080, which are rumored to receive the SUPER upgrade. There is no clear explanation for the absence of the RTX 5090 Founders Edition from all global stores, especially given the high demand and record-breaking gaming revenues. An End-of-Life (EOL) scenario seems unlikely. We can only speculate about NVIDIA's reasons for this removal, but it might be an inventory adjustment, as NVIDIA could have distributed too many of these models to other retailers, leaving none for its own store. We will continue to monitor the marketplace for updates in the coming days.
Update 15:47 UTC: An NVIDIA spokesperson for Wccftech confirmed that "GeForce RTX 50 series Founders Editions continue to be in production. They are limited edition products so, from time to time, go out of stock on our website and return when back in stock." So there are no long-term reasons for potential buyers to worry about.
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This situation is compounded by the fact that 12V-2x6 has been confirmed to be overloaded in real-world use by 600 watt loads that are presented by better-engineered RTX 5090 AIB cards to their burning or melting 12V-2x6 sockets and the plugs inserted into them which prove that the standard needs to have its maximum wattage lowered before it can be considered safe.
And all FE models are also still available today.
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Yeah, not really.