Two leakers say Nvidia's GB202 supply now goes to RTX PRO, not the RTX 5090
Two accounts that post graphics card supply claims said on October 10 that Nvidia has stopped sending its GB202 chip to the GeForce RTX 5090, and that every one it makes from now on goes to professional cards instead. Treat it as a rumour: neither post offers a date, a notice number or anything beyond a sentence, and Nvidia has published nothing.
Nvidia's RTX PRO desktop comparison lists the RTX PRO 6000 at 96 GB and the RTX PRO 5500 at 84 GB, and never prints a die name. Image: Nvidia
The clearest version is MEGAsizeGPU's. "No more GB202 for 5090, confirmed," the account posted at 07:02:48 UTC, following it five minutes later with "All future GB202 supplies are RTX Pro exclusive". Both were read through X's syndication endpoint at 21:48 UTC on October 10.
A second account, hongxing2020, had posted "5090 EOL, 5080 24GB ready" at 04:44:18 UTC, a little over two hours earlier, attaching a photograph of what is presented as a notice. Nothing here authenticates that image, and EOL is that account's own word for its own claim rather than anything Nvidia has used.
Nvidia's own page never prints the die name
The professional cards the claim points at are real and current. Nvidia's own comparison for Blackwell RTX PRO desktop cards, read at 21:48 UTC on October 10, lists the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition and its Max-Q version at 96 GB of GDDR7 with ECC, and the RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell at 84 GB, then steps down through the 5000, 4500, 4000 and 2000 to 16 GB. The 6000 draws up to 600 W, the Max-Q 300 W.
What that page does not contain, anywhere, is the string GB202. Nvidia does not name the die behind any of those cards in its own comparison, so the part of the claim that identifies the chip is not confirmed by anything first-party, only by two people saying so.
What the posts do not say
They do not say the RTX 5090 is being discontinued, whatever EOL is taken to mean, and nobody should read it that way from this evidence. Cards that are built and sitting in the channel do not vanish because a wafer allocation moved, and there is no statement from Nvidia about the supply of either line. The newest item on Nvidia's own newsroom feed at 21:53 UTC on October 10 was still from October 8, and none of it touches this.
The second half of the hongxing2020 post, an RTX 5080 with 24 GB, is a separate claim resting on the same unverified photograph. It names no date and no specification beyond the memory figure, and nothing connects it to any other card Nvidia sells or has been reported to be preparing.
Why a supply claim is worth watching anyway
GB202 is the chip behind the fastest GeForce card Nvidia sells, and a workstation card carrying 96 GB of memory is a far better use of a large die than a gaming card if a company has to choose. That is the logic the two posts assume rather than show, and it is the reason the claim travels.
For a PC gamer the practical question is whether anything changes on a shelf, and nothing in these posts answers it. The RTX 5090 sits at the top of a range whose middle is what people actually run: Steam's September survey put the RTX 5070 in first place. Until Nvidia says something, this is two sentences from two accounts on one morning, and worth exactly that.
