Tuesday, October 20th 2026
NVIDIA Has January Discontinuation Dates Set for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 16 GB, Claims Leaker
Earlier this month, leakers claimed NVIDIA had stopped allocating GB202 silicon to the GeForce RTX 5090, effectively discontinuing the Blackwell flagship. NVIDIA denied it a few days later, with SVP Jeff Fisher saying the RTX 5090 hasn't been discontinued and will keep shipping. Now, Moore's Law Is Dead (MLID) says the plans are still in place, and the RTX 5080 is part of them too. In the latest Broken Silicon episode, MLID read out a message from what he calls one of his oldest sources, apparently a major retailer, saying NVIDIA has set discontinuation dates for both cards in the first half of January 2027.
According to that source, the last RTX 5090 shipments arrived in September, while the final RTX 5080 batch should land by the end of October and sell through Thanksgiving. We recently reported that Micro Center has already marked its RTX 5090 listings as "Not Carried," which could be further evidence of the RTX 5090 leaving shelves. The retailer from MLID's video also says its system already has a placeholder SKU for an RTX 5080 24 GB, which aligns with BenchLife's earlier report of a Q1 2027 launch.
Of course, this should be taken with a healthy dose of salt. MLID has a mixed reputation, and his leaks tend to be hit-or-miss. Just last month, he claimed NVIDIA was targeting the first half of 2027 for its Rubin-based RTX 60-series GPUs. Leakers like MEGAsizeGPU and Kepler_L2 disputed that almost right away, and multiple leakers now point to a 2028 window instead. NVIDIA also hasn't said a word about a 24 GB RTX 5080, but there have now been multiple reports of that card's existence from different leakers. If the timeline holds, it's reasonable to expect RTX 5080 16 GB stock to thin out after the holidays, with the 24 GB model likely costing more than the current card's $999 MSRP.
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Moore's Law Is Dead
According to that source, the last RTX 5090 shipments arrived in September, while the final RTX 5080 batch should land by the end of October and sell through Thanksgiving. We recently reported that Micro Center has already marked its RTX 5090 listings as "Not Carried," which could be further evidence of the RTX 5090 leaving shelves. The retailer from MLID's video also says its system already has a placeholder SKU for an RTX 5080 24 GB, which aligns with BenchLife's earlier report of a Q1 2027 launch.
66 Comments on NVIDIA Has January Discontinuation Dates Set for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 16 GB, Claims Leaker
Well now. To wait or not to wait on another purchase. The current average price for the 5080 [with 16GB] is around $1200. Forget the MSRP. A SKU with the Manufacturer Suggested Ripoff Price is no where to be found [no surprise there] and the 12GB SKU is unable to cut it for most serious and eye candy'ish gamers running at higher resolution.
The 24GB SKU is worth waiting for in my opinion. The 5090 was in part inadequately equipped to effectively manage the vast amount of current that's required to use it at maximum output. The wiring and connections for power should have been split up to distribute the current more efficiently. Additionally I think some users were using insufficient PSU's which werestruggling to supply the necessary current.
if anyone knows of someone stateside here that is unloading a 5070Ti 16GB for under $1K, let me know as I would like a 2nd one to occupy one of my Linux boxes.
Tim
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If it's 256bits it can have 24gb just like the new 5080.
Nvidia: "no it isn't."
Leakers: "well, in January..."
Nvidia: ... ? :rolleyes:
This is ridiculous.
Nvidia: 🤣
2027: Supply chain hack Jensen style.
Supply is totally exhausted, but... we understand the struggles of our customers - so we decided, since our newest LLM discovered altruism- NVIDIA can rent it for you!
If the RTX 5080 24GB really launches, it's going to be targeted for AI (pardon, SI!) / LLM acceleration for home and small business, it might even get a completely new line designation.
And regular gaming RTX 5080 might also be discontinued - why would you provide it to the gamers if you can sell it to AI crowd? And that might leave RTX 5070 Ti, a card barely faster than RTX 3090, as a gaming flagship until 2028 - at that point the highest performance GPU will be stagnating for 8 years!
Of course for comparison benchmarks, charts will still show Nvidia's dominance with RTX 5090 and 5080, can't have charts starting with AMD RX 7900 XTX...
And the 5070Ti would left being the accessible high end for the average joe gamer, although priced at what the 5080 used to be, compared the the 9070XT which is 40% cheaper.
Reviewers will of course still show the 5090 topping the charts, a card you can no longer buy not even at used car prices.
5070 Ti still makes more sense to buy, so maybe we shouldn't care about 5080s or 5090s.
AI sucks.
The man was is and will always remain top tier loser material. I guess it just took a whole lot of sheep a long time to figure that out. Glad the consensus has arrived.
All the 5090 stock will disappear from the market prior to 6090 launch. This will generate so much demand that the market price will be multiples of MSRP even if the AI bubble cools off.
If the AI bubble does not cool off, Nvidia will essentially paper launch Rubin and do basically what they did with 5090 - slow trickle of supply that's very difficult to obtain without paying market scalping price.
Nvidia has the entire PC gaming market by the balls and there's no light yet at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully AMD's next product line is a historically great one and they're able to produce at volume, but I wouldn't have high hopes for that either... AMD's history is that they love to tie their shoelaces together and trip over themselves when handed a possible victory lap.
And I guess we have to wait a bit to see the consequence of discontinuing RTX 5090, let alone effect of potential disappearance of RTX 5080 for gamers. I wouldn't put it past them to price RTX 5070 Ti at 2000 EUR. Hey, it's the new gaming flagship!
:p
This entire segment is whatever to 95% of the gaming market.
Also, trickle down isn't in play here, as you noticed, the 5090 by far exceeding what the rest of the stack did. It also catches fire. Its a great product for people taking a hobby too far for their own good. Of course you will be scalped. You're ready and waiting for it. Its not like this is the first >1k$ GPU people jump on like its unmissable... even though next gen they could get the same perf for 500 dollars less. What's new here?
I'll happily keep my EVGA 3080Ti for a lot longer. Had her for just over 4 years now and hopefully she'll take me another 4 years. With how things are being priced now, my current system may very well be my last....