NVIDIA denies that GeForce RTX 5090 production has ended, and executive Jeff Fisher says shipping continues. An AIB partner still says it cannot order the GB202 chip and 32GB of GDDR7 as a complete set, and a cooler supplier reports sharply cut RTX 5090 cooling parts orders for the first quarter of 2027.
NVIDIA has twice had to answer the same question about the GeForce RTX 5090, and the two answers are the spine of the story so far. On October 15, German outlet PC Games Hardware reported, citing distribution and retail officials, that new supply of the GB202 chip had halted. At an October 16 media interview after the RTX Spark Launch Party: Taipei, Senior Vice President Jeff Fisher denied that production of the card has ended and said shipments will continue. Fisher acknowledged production capacity has constraints but said NVIDIA is doing what it can to get products to market.
The shortage behind the rumor did not go away with the denial. RTX 5090 street prices in Japan have passed 1 million yen, and memory prices keep climbing. By the end of October, an unnamed AIB partner told German outlet HardwareLuxx it cannot order the GB202 chip and 32GB of GDDR7 memory as a complete set, and does not know if reorders will reopen. A cooler supplier said two of its partners cut RTX 5090 cooling parts orders for the first quarter of 2027 sharply against the third quarter of 2026. That leaves NVIDIA denying a production end while partners describe a parts pipeline thinning for early 2027.
Two other threads run alongside the supply question. A report picked up by VideoCardz describes footage, shared by HKEPC, of a Chinese workshop stripping standard RTX 5090 cards down to their GB202 chip and GDDR memory and moving them onto blower-cooled custom boards for AI servers. The cards shown are the standard model, which the US restricts for export to China, not the China-market RTX 5090 D v2, and how the parts are procured is not clear. In California, Greg Lui, 38, CEO of Earthmade Computer, was arrested on a three-count federal indictment accusing him of conspiring with five others to ship export-controlled servers carrying NVIDIA A100, H100, GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs to customers in China without US Commerce Department licenses, routed through Malaysia and Singapore. Prosecutors put the total value above $300 million.
The card also has a professional counterpart. NVIDIA announced the RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition with 21,760 CUDA cores, the same count as the RTX 5090, and 84GB of GDDR7 with ECC support, 52GB more than the RTX 5090's 32GB. Memory bandwidth is 1398GB/s and maximum power consumption is 600W.
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2h ago
An unnamed AIB partner told German outlet HardwareLuxx it cannot order the GB202 chip and 32GB of GDDR7 memory as a complete set for the GeForce RTX 5090, and does not know if reorders will reopen. A cooler supplier said two of its partners cut RTX 5090 cooling parts orders for the first quarter of 2027 sharply against the third quarter of 2026. NVIDIA denied a production end; executive Jeff Fisher said shipping continues.
4d ago
Reporting picked up by VideoCardz describes footage, shared by HKEPC, of a Chinese workshop stripping standard RTX 5090 cards down to their GB202 chip and GDDR memory and transplanting them onto blower-cooled custom boards for AI server use. The cards shown are the standard model, which the US restricts for export to China, not the China-market RTX 5090 D v2. How the parts are procured is not clear.
Oct 19
At an October 16 media interview after the RTX Spark Launch Party: Taipei, NVIDIA Senior Vice President Jeff Fisher denied rumors that production of the GeForce RTX 5090 has ended, saying shipments will continue. German outlet PC Games Hardware had reported on October 15, citing distribution and retail officials, that new supply of the GB202 chip used in the card had halted. Fisher said production capacity has constraints but NVIDIA is doing what it can to get products to market.
Oct 7
Greg Lui, 38, CEO of Earthmade Computer, was arrested on a three-count federal indictment. He is accused of conspiring with five others to ship export-controlled servers carrying NVIDIA A100, H100, GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs to customers in China without U.S. Commerce Department licenses, routing goods through Malaysia and Singapore. Prosecutors put the total value above $300 million.
Sep 15
NVIDIA announced the RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, a professional GPU with 21,760 CUDA cores, the same count as the GeForce RTX 5090. Its GDDR7 memory is 84GB with ECC support, 52GB more than the RTX 5090's 32GB. Memory bandwidth is 1398GB/s, and the maximum power consumption is 600W.