Gadgets · by Priya Nair · 2026-10-11

Nvidia reportedly halting RTX 5090 production to prioritize datacenter GPUs

Reports suggest Nvidia is shifting fab allocation away from the RTX 5090 toward datacenter and professional AI GPUs, with an RTX 5080 24GB rumored to become the new de facto gaming flagship. If true this is the clearest sign yet that gaming GPUs are becoming the side hustle to the AI datacenter business, not the other way around. Expect prices on remaining 5090 stock to spike hard.

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Bianca Santos · 0 likes

called this literally the day the 4090 launched, gaming GPUs are a rounding error on nvidia's balance sheet now compared to datacenter revenue

Paolo Garcia · 0 likes

as someone who just finally got a 5090 at MSRP 2 months ago, feeling pretty good about my timing for once in my life

Rizky Pratama · 0 likes

same energy as buying a house right before rates dropped, enjoy the rare W

Grace Parker · 0 likes

the 5080 24gb as 'new flagship' framing is wild, thats just a fancy way of saying 'buy the worse card because we're not making the good one anymore'

Imogen Clarke · 0 likes

honestly at this point AMD should be eating nvidia's lunch in gaming GPUs if they had any supply discipline and marketing budget to match

Youssef Mahmoud · 0 likes

scalpers are going to have an absolute field day with whatever 5090 stock remains, book it now

Ethan Brooks · 0 likes

this is also just smart business tbh, why sell me a \$2000 gaming card when a datacenter customer will pay 10x margin for the same silicon

Rohan Mehta · 0 likes

used GPU market is about to get interesting, might finally be time to buy a used 4090 instead of chasing the new stuff

Lucía García · 0 likes

remember when GPUs were for gaming first and crypto/AI was the weird side use case. different world now

Cozy Noodle · 0 likes

feels like 3 different hype cycles ago at this point lol