PC gamers hoping to buy an RTX 5090 face a new supply concern: hardware leakers claim Nvidia is ending its allocation of the card's GB202 chips to GeForce products and reserving future supplies for RTX Pro professional GPUs. Nvidia has not confirmed the change, and an end to chip shipments would not mean every finished card immediately disappears from sale.

The claim comes from MEGAsizeGPU, who posted on October 10 that there would be no more GB202 chips for the RTX 5090. A follow-up post said all future GB202 supplies would be exclusive to RTX Pro. Those are the leaker's assertions, not an official Nvidia production notice.

Tom's Hardware also reports an alleged factory notice shared by hongxing2020 claiming the RTX 5090 would be discontinued, including its China-market D variants. The outlet asked Nvidia for comment and had not received a response when it published its report.

The proposed shift would divert the silicon behind Nvidia's flagship gaming card toward professional and AI workloads. Tom's Hardware notes that board manufacturers, distributors and retailers could still hold chips or finished cards, allowing sales to continue after new supply stops. The report establishes no date when that inventory would run out.

Availability was already strained before this rumor. In a September 14 US retail check, Tom's Hardware found online stock largely limited to expensive third-party listings, while a local Micro Center still had cards. That was a snapshot of particular retailers, not proof that every RTX 5090 is sold out today. Nvidia originally launched the card on January 30, 2025, starting at $1,999.

The 24GB RTX 5080 claim is separate from confirmed specs

The alleged notice also describes a 24GB RTX 5080 becoming the highest-end GeForce option and replacing the 16GB model. That product change is unconfirmed, with no announced price or release date.

Nvidia's published specifications still list the RTX 5080 with 16GB of GDDR7 and 10,752 CUDA cores, compared with 32GB and 21,760 CUDA cores on the RTX 5090. More memory alone would not establish that a revised 5080 matches the 5090's gaming performance; the rumored card's full specifications have not been announced.