Saturday, October 17th 2026
NVIDIA Denies RTX 5090 Discontinuation Rumors, Admits Supply Is Tight
NVIDIA has finally responded to reports that the GeForce RTX 5090 is being discontinued. Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of NVIDIA's personal computing business, told Taiwanese media after the RTX Spark launch party in Taipei on October 16 that the rumors aren't true, as reported by 4Gamers and the Central News Agency (CNA). The whole thing kicked off last week when leakers claimed NVIDIA had stopped allocating GB202 silicon to the RTX 5090, and BenchLife later added that board partners were no longer receiving GB202 chips for the card. The RTX 5090 also seemingly vanished from NVIDIA's own marketplace and from Micro Center shelves, which only added fuel to the fire. Here's what Fisher said, translated from 4Gamers' Chinese report:
Fisher also told CNA that the supply crunch is a global problem affecting the whole industry, and that the company wouldn't be where it is today without GeForce. However, his comments don't say whether partners are getting fresh GB202 chips again, and it's not clear what he meant by "other variants," though GB202 also powers workstation cards like the RTX PRO 6000 and RTX PRO 5500. Either way, the RTX 5090 is still very hard to find anywhere near its $1,999 MSRP, with some listings going well past $8,000 on Amazon and Newegg now. It's reasonable to expect that to stay the case for a while, given the constraints Fisher himself acknowledged.
Sources:
4Gamers, Central News Agency
The supply chain (capacity) is indeed somewhat constrained, but NVIDIA is going all out to bring products to market. Although there are other variants of the RTX 5090 (chip), it has definitely not been discontinued. NVIDIA will continue to ship it, and this is very important.
34 Comments on NVIDIA Denies RTX 5090 Discontinuation Rumors, Admits Supply Is Tight
A genuine Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler!
"NVIDIA is going all out to bring AI products to market"
Anyway I'm not fussed one bit... it was never really a consumer gaming GPU to begin with... just an overpriced prosumer card. Even if Nvidia mass produced the 5090 and forced retailers to sell it at MSRP with further $200 hello discount, I still wouldn't touch it.
And that's gaming only, nothing "prosumer" about it. And it's still used to rub in how far behind AMD gaming cards are in performance. And will continue to be, because hey, it's not discontinued, you just can't have any. But we're faster than AMD!
It's clear they are using the chips for the rtx pro 5500
But the funny thing is with the 5090 out of the picture, the 5080 is now the flagship, it's not significantly faster than the 9070XT for being 50% more expensive.
GB202 is "certainly not discontinued"; it says nothing of RTX 5090 being discontinued or not.
Edit: TPU's quote, VideoCardz's quote, and the original 4gamers article translated in-browser, all translate differently.
Until we see actual 1st hand footage of the interview/speech, Fisher's statement has done nothing to clear up the status of the GeForce RTX 5090's production...
I yearn for a better timeline were there's competition at this performance level, one horse races always end up pretty whacky.
As for RTX 5090 availability, that's completely up to nVidia. Remember, talk is cheap ...unlike 5090s.