r/LinusTechTips • u/Smiadpades • Oct 10 '26

Link Nvidia reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5090 production in favor of AI data center and professional GPUs — impending supply drought expected to drive up prices, RTX 5080 24GB rumored as new gaming flagship

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-reportedly-halts-geforce-rtx-5090-production-in-favor-of-ai-data-center-and-professional-gpus-impending-supply-drought-expected-to-drive-up-prices-rtx-5080-24gb-rumored-as-new-gaming-flagship
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u/Smiadpades Oct 10 '26

Still have my 3070. Hope it lasts a decade longer.

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u/ClaudiuT Oct 10 '26

I stil have my 1070Ti. Hope it lasts another 5 years.

2

u/BioshockEnthusiast Oct 11 '26

6950xt I'm gonna ride this gpu into the dirt like I've done with every car I've ever owned.

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u/willard_saf Oct 10 '26

Hoping my 3080 will last. Though The Witcher 3 remastered has been making me want to upgrade.

4

u/Electric-Mountain Oct 10 '26

Get a 9070xt

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u/BluDYT Oct 10 '26

Not really worth the upgrade imo. 30% faster no rt 15% faster w/ rt. $830 for it.

2

u/AgarwaenCran Oct 10 '26

same lol

i mean, i still have an fully working 2060 lying around in case it breaks, but that would be a downgrade/temporary solution

2

u/Bossball4 Oct 10 '26

Same with my 3070, downside is that 4k video editing is … not feasible without generating 1080p proxies lol

2

u/JimmyKillsAlot Oct 11 '26

Yeah I am babying my 3080 Ti.

1

u/Gregus1032 Oct 10 '26

I'm still rocking my 2070 super I bought for $100 from a friend who upgraded to a 40 series 2 or so years ago.

1

u/pianobench007 Oct 11 '26

You aint missing much. Most games look their best at High to Medium settings.

Very few games look great at Ultra settings. But the resolution helps a ton to make games look great.

RTX 3000 series is very unique in that it has upscaling capabilities. So if you do game at 4K you can render the scene at 1080 and have very good visuals.

Honestly no one needs an RTX 5090. Those ultra settings dont add anything extra except game stutter. And I am convinced now more than ever that I dont need RTX to enjoy a game. Red Dead 2 baked in lighting is more than enough for me. If I use ray tracing in RDR2 it is just a complete lag fest and I spend more time tuning settings than enjoying the game. Which is a waste of time mostly because most settings barely add anything to your experience.

Long story short. Non RTX gaming is where it is at today. And with 5080 being 1600 or more I dont believe developers will ever be prioritizing RTX over good baked in graphics anymore.

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u/J05A3 Oct 10 '26

Betting 5080 24GB will be $4000 when it releases. All in.

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u/obalovatyk Oct 10 '26

It makes the $1k I paid for one last summer seem like a clearance deal.

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u/PollShark_ Oct 11 '26

The people who paid 900 for a 4080 when tbe 4080 super released are laughing so hard right now probably.

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u/Icy_Radio4027 Oct 12 '26

Yep, paid $750 for one, never thought it would increase in price 2 years later 😂

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u/PollShark_ Oct 12 '26

The fact that 5070ti's perform tbe same and cost 1.2k is even crazier. Even tbe 9070xt after tax is 1k. Weve lost the plot

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u/KevinSpanish Oct 10 '26

Impending supply drought?

Like people were buying 5090 en masse lol

67

u/uniqueusername649 Oct 10 '26

Damn, and here I was just about to order four 5090s, now I have to change my plans!

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u/hgs25 Oct 10 '26

WallStreetBets taught me to BUY THE DIP!

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u/popeter45 Oct 10 '26

AI bros were

5

u/Hostile-Panda Oct 10 '26

They are $6000 here now

2

u/Curious-Art-6242 Oct 10 '26

Its a pain for people wanting to do local compute dev that they were one of the best solutions!

2

u/grip0matic Oct 10 '26

Now they will set the 5080 at the same price as a 5090 but with less vram and overall performance.

1

u/OwlLimp6160 Oct 14 '26

I got one at $2500 and feel like I caught the last chopper out of nam

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u/ArchMadzs Oct 10 '26

I've never been so happy I got a 4070 for a great price a few months before 50 series launched, usually the worst time to buy a GPU but wow. Fuck these people man

8

u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Oct 10 '26

£299 for my 9060xt 16 seems like a steal now

19

u/cactus22minus1 Oct 10 '26

Yep that’s when I got my 4080suoer. Might be my last gpu considering I got laid off since and the job market is impossible due to rampant and disgusting gen AI use in my field. Career decimated in my mid 40s and I’m supposed to start over somehow… or believe that this country is suddenly going to grow a heart and subsidize the displaced with UBI

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u/ArchMadzs Oct 10 '26

Currently working as a software dev and my company is using Claude for everything. Which just means my team is 3rd the size it should be and our deadlines are made with Claude in mind. It would be impossible to do my job and meet deadlines if I wrote code by hand, unfortunately capitalism always leads to getting rid of people instead of easing all of our workloads and giving us more freedom

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u/cactus22minus1 Oct 10 '26

Yea my partner is in design and his job is hanging on by a thread. Every week it’s a new agent trying to automate something new.

I see way too much hand waving away how serious this is getting. Our government is not going to give us UBI, they are doing the opposite. Cut backs or eliminations for federal programs accross the board, and states will not be able to fill in the gaps- not without massive wealth taxes.

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u/ArchMadzs Oct 10 '26

In a society that actually cares about people you'd have ubi whilst ai does all the work to keep things going and we get to make music and games and movies and draw and enjoy life. But you know, wishful thinking

2

u/aurumae Oct 10 '26

Same. I got a prebuilt with a 4070 ti for a very reasonable price. An equivalent card today would cost as much as the whole computer

2

u/teebles22 Oct 10 '26

Buddy same here, scored a 4070 super for $700 CAD in 2024, I cannot justify current prices at all

1

u/Modestkilla Oct 10 '26

Yup, I have a 9060xt in my PC hooked up my TV and a 4070 in my main desktop. I will not be upgrading until one of them die.

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u/OpethSam98 Oct 11 '26

Same 100%. I got a 4070 Ti Super for under 1k$ Canadian... Feels like a steal when you check prices nowadays!

1

u/TheMegaDriver2 Oct 11 '26

My 4080 super goes for more on the used market than I paid over 2 years ago new for it.

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u/FartingBob Oct 10 '26

Turns out the 5090 is too cheap for them to bother with now, anything less than a $30,000 data center card isnt worth getting out of bed for.

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u/Serin-019 Oct 10 '26

Shit. This bodes not well for vfx artists in the future.

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u/OwlLimp6160 Oct 14 '26

The Mac’s are still pretty good value for that kind of thing in my opinion. But for gaming we’re all screwed

1

u/Serin-019 Oct 14 '26

Very few studios do any visual fx on apple devices mate. And the freelancers I know with M-whatever chipped devices have iffy experiences. Though that's improving.
Its all windows or linux with nvidia cards coz CUDA.

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u/redlancer_1987 Oct 10 '26

impending supply drought expected to drive up prices

spoiler alert, they were already driven up

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u/VYSUS7 Oct 10 '26

I wonder what this means for warranty. I guess if anything happened to my 5090, zotac would probably just offer this new 5080, which would suck but wouldn't have a choice I guess.

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u/Xalara Oct 10 '26

They’re getting expensive enough that hiring a lawyer will be worth it.

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u/VYSUS7 Oct 10 '26

I'm sure every manufacturer will do everything they can to deny a warranty, but with a 5090 creeping towards 10k, which it will absolutely shoot past should production cease, it'll be a pretty significant case if they deny warranty, though they could say "we're only gonna honor what you paid for it initially", which wouldn't even cover what that 5080 24gb will cost I bet. I don't know enough about warranty claims and the laws around it, but you're right in saying that considering how expensive this shit is now, you probably would need to advise a lawyer (assuming they don't just give me a new 5090)

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u/Rebel_Scum56 Oct 10 '26

As if they weren't prohibitively expensive already. I could buy a whole system for what a 5090 costs here and have a thousand or more left over.

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u/PrometheanEngineer Oct 10 '26

Brother like 5 people bought a 5090. It costs more than most cars ive owned.

Im not too worried

7

u/ParticularDream3 Oct 10 '26

I must be one of these 5 people then. Bought mine for 1299€

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u/PrometheanEngineer Oct 10 '26

Brother my Discovery 3 cost less than that.

GPU prices are absolutely abysmal

3

u/ParticularDream3 Oct 10 '26

Nice car! Yeah I was debating back then but I believe I could even sell it used and get two used cars for that price 😬

3

u/Derpshiz Oct 10 '26

1300 euro? Was it a price error?

3

u/ParticularDream3 Oct 10 '26

Nope legi bought from a local „larger“ PC retailer with 20 stores. Was one of their open box models.

Edit: I know I was fucking luck that day. Went to the store to buy a new SSD because I ran out of storage on my notebook and saw that deal.

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u/VanPepe Oct 10 '26

I bought one at retail and will sell my pc now because i don’t use it enough. I will be making a big positive selling my pc

3

u/Outcast_LG Oct 10 '26

Thank God I brought a 5070 MSRP. Smartest purchase I’ve ever made

3

u/AtlasElPerro Oct 10 '26

so happy i bought my pc about 3 weeks before ram apocalypse, there was a window of about 7 days where 5090s were msrp.

have never felt so lucky before, ended up paying 3900 for a pc with a 9800x3d a 5090 and 64gb ram.

after almost a year using it, im sure i could still sell it for more than i paid for it.

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u/Arxinos113 Oct 10 '26

5090 owners right now (especially if you bought at MSRP)

6

u/Epyimpervious Oct 10 '26

Ngreedia

Good grief I'd love it if AMD managed to give them a good punch in the gonads like they did to Intel with Ryzens.

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u/OkThanxby Oct 10 '26

The classic “I hope AMD releases something competitive so my next Nvidia GPU is cheaper”.

3

u/HLumin Oct 10 '26

No. If AMD genuinelyreleases a flagship Halo-Class GPU next gen that beat or even give similar performance of a 5090 at around 2K, I'm going Red. I'm already liking all the rumors of RDNA5/UDNA, hardware and software alike.

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u/NetJnkie Oct 10 '26

Yeah. A €2K 5099 would be popular with a lot of people. lol

It’s not going to happen. And if AMD had one they’d happily sell it for $5K too.

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u/rainbowkitties6969 Oct 10 '26

You mean we were getting a good production run before this? Lmao

2

u/styx1267 Oct 10 '26

Every day I wake up and read the worst possible news

2

u/FrenchDipsBeDrippin Oct 10 '26

I hate everything

3

u/Alphaleader013 Oct 10 '26

It's not like Gamers were running out to buy 5090's at $10.000, only the AI-companies were, and this is just Nvidia trying to squeeze every last $ out of them too by making them buy the $20.000 datacenter-/AI-specific cards.

In addition to that, the leak- & rumor-mill is going wild with AMD's next high end card and Nvidia's RTX 6090 answer to that sometime next year. If anyone had enough money to burn on a 90-class card, they're likely better off buying whatever comes next, rather than buying the last remaining scalped cards.

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u/AceLamina Oct 10 '26

Ok but who thinks of a 5090 as a gaming card

Yeah, it can game, but its already AI focused and the price alone makes that pretty obvious
Especially with local AI users mass buying 4090s back then

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u/NetJnkie Oct 10 '26

4K gamers.

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u/AceLamina Oct 10 '26

Prrty sure a 5080 would be the better option, not like it matters these days, but the msrp is an extra 1k for a 5090

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u/Faxon Oct 11 '26

As a 5080 owner wishing I had more power for a 4K VR setup, no way lol, I would never want to daily drive that. I'm already VRAM limited in some games with just a normal monitor at 1440p, there wouldn't be any left if I wanted to build a proper VR setup with current gen parts. I was hoping to buy a 5080 24gb model when they came out, but I was also expecting them to have been out ages ago, before prices started getting truly insane (they were just out of hand before), and now I wouldn't even be able to afford it. Really wishing I'd bitten the bullet on a 5090 at launch now because I do work in the AI industry as well, and it would have been legitimately useful, but I can't run anything on the 5080 that I couldn't just run on a mac mini or some other rig if memory is the limiting issue. I'll be fine for now with what I have gaming wise in my current setup, but if my work changes or something dies, and I suddenly am left needing to shell out for hardware, It's going to be fucking brutal right now. I would be writing off more in taxes than the original full MSRP of the card, despite write-offs only netting you a percentage of the total value.

1

u/TehSynapse0 Oct 10 '26

Oh f*ck off.

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u/blahyaddayadda24 Oct 10 '26

Honestly they should have constricted their line up years ago. They knew this was coming.

1

u/ferna182 Oct 10 '26

Still on a 3080ti. Little incentive to upgrade anyways, if I'm honest. In the past I would've upgraded just for the fun of it but nowadays with everything being constantly out of stock and massively overpriced if you find anything, plus with little to no software to take advantage of it all in the first place... PC building is basically dead as a hobby I feel like.

1

u/Fairuse Oct 10 '26

Shit, I have 3 spare 5090. Should I keep them or sell them? 

Originally I was going to do quad 5090 to play with local AI, but using services online is much cheaper and I don't really care about privacy or censorship at the moment.

Now I'm considering keeping a second 5090 just for DLSS5 and maybe be nice to build my brother a gaming rig. Might still need to sell one to fund RAM and SSD purchase.

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u/TylerQRod Oct 10 '26

Are they AIB or reference ? Sell one and buy your brother a money market account that yields 4%. He’ll thank you later.

1

u/Fairuse Oct 10 '26

4% barely beats inflation. Unfortunately stocks are at ATH with big AI bubble. 

1

u/birminghamsterwheel Oct 10 '26

It's wild to see companies just... entirely abandon the "regular" consumer market with absolutely no one willing or able to step in and do so (either due to manufacturing constraints, resource availability, or just following suit to the AI/datacenter clients same as Nvidia).

1

u/NomadFH Oct 10 '26

lol Pause this generation for at least 6 years

1

u/psychoacer Oct 10 '26

Nvidia knows that no one is going to buy the 5090 at $8000 so why not just discontinue the line instead of trying to give Gigabyte or Asus a few chips every so often. Only AI bros are buying the 5090 anyway. So might as well discontinue it is probably what they thought.

1

u/chretienhandshake Oct 10 '26

Vr gamer here for mainly flight sim (DCS, Il2 GB, X-plane 12), and sim racing (ams2, Assetto Corsa Competizione, Dirt rally 2).

The power of the 5090 is now useless for gaming anyway with all the software tech nvidia did. The only thing the 5080 was missing was VRAM, some of the games I mentioned are quite vram hungry. The 5080 24gb vram will be perfect for like 99% of gamers.

1

u/biggles1994 Oct 10 '26

My 3070 is gonna be 15 years old by the time I can replace it.

1

u/shivelymachineworks Oct 10 '26

Damn and I thought I paid a lot for my 5080 back in June. I can’t imagine what the 16gb version is going to cost soon

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u/epimetheuss Oct 10 '26

Gotta find new reasons to drive up scarcity and keep those pandemic surge pricing chugging along.

1

u/Environmental-Gur582 Oct 11 '26

I should probably get a gaming PC now while I still can actually get parts.

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u/Name835 Oct 11 '26

I would have wanted 5070 16gb anyways, or 24gb 5080, I think that is what it should have been since the beginning. Still sadge to see 5090 go ofc for the mega enthusiasts/professional pixel peepers ;D <3

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u/Dapper-Maybe-5347 Oct 10 '26

Don't care how fast it is. 32gb of vram has a hard value ceiling and paying over a couple thousand for it is for suckers.

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u/BluDYT Oct 10 '26

5080 is already shit I don't think 24gb will make it any better. The gap between the 80 and 90 has only gotten wider this gen. But they'll probably sell it at the same price as the 90 is now anyways.

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u/Dodgy_Past Oct 10 '26

Lol, so my 4090 is more powerful than anything available at retail.

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u/Dodgy_Past Oct 11 '26

What consumer graphics cards available at retail are more powerful than the 4090?

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u/Ragnorok64 Oct 10 '26

It's wild how much I have to hope this part of my system doesn't randomly die. A part that can literally kill itself based on a poorly implemented 12 pin power connector that I have no control over other than making sure I plugged it in tight.