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NVIDIA RTX 5080 24 GB Reportedly Planned For Q1 2027, but Board Partners Are Still in the Dark

What happened

According to Taiwanese outlet BenchLife, NVIDIA is pulling GB202 silicon away from the GeForce RTX 5090, and board partners are no longer receiving GB202 chips for RTX 5090 production; the same applies to the China-specific RTX 5090 D and RTX 5090 D V2 variants. NVIDIA has not said anything officially and reportedly does not see this as an end-of-life (EOL) move, with the stated cause being that the chips are simply being shifted to more profitable GB202-based RTX PRO cards like the RTX PRO 6000 and the recently unveiled RTX PRO 5500; any RTX 5090 cards still reaching shelves are built from chips partners already have. The card sold out immediately at Walmart for $4,299 last month. In the same report, BenchLife says NVIDIA plans to launch an RTX 5080 with 24 GB of GDDR7 in the first quarter of 2027, replacing the current 16 GB model, but board partners have yet to receive any development material and have only been told verbally that it should arrive soon. Partners reportedly had RTX 50 SUPER silicon in hand back in July, before GDDR7 pricing put that launch on hold. It remains unknown whether the RTX 5080 24 GB and the long-rumored RTX 5080 SUPER are the same card.