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NVIDIA Denies RTX 5090 Discontinuation Rumors, Admits Supply Is Tight

What happened

NVIDIA has responded to and denied reports that the GeForce RTX 5090 is being discontinued. On October 16, after the RTX Spark launch party in Taipei, Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of NVIDIA's personal computing business, told Taiwanese media the rumors aren't true, as reported by 4Gamers and the Central News Agency (CNA). The rumors started last week when leakers claimed NVIDIA had stopped allocating GB202 silicon to the RTX 5090, and BenchLife later said 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. Fisher said 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 and NVIDIA will continue to ship it. The source does not state the cause of the tight supply. The discontinuation rumor remains unconfirmed, and the event is the denial of a rumor.