Nvidia says RTX 5090 is not discontinued, but supply stays tight
A senior Nvidia executive says the company will keep shipping the RTX 5090, while admitting that supply is limited.
Nvidia's strongest graphics card is hard to find in shops. Nvidia says it will keep making it, but there are not many to go around, so prices are very high.
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If you wanted a top GeForce card, expect few units and high prices for now. Nvidia says the card is not going away.
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The details
- Jeff Fisher, Nvidia's senior vice president of personal computing, spoke to Taiwanese media on October 16 after the RTX Spark launch party in Taipei.
- He said supply-chain capacity is limited, and Nvidia intends to keep shipping the RTX 5090.
- Micro Center listed several RTX 5090 models as "Not Carried" around October 15, and the card was missing from Nvidia's own marketplace.
- Notebookcheck says RTX 5090 prices are above $5,000 in every region.
- PC Games Hardware reported that new GB202 chip allocations for GeForce cards had stopped. Fisher's comments do not directly answer that report.
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