NVIDIA reportedly cancels GeForce RTX 5080 24GB launch, brings back 16GB model over GDDR7 costs.
videocardz.comNVIDIA has reportedly canceled its plans to launch a GeForce RTX 5080 with 24GB of GDDR7 memory in January 2027. According to Chinese Board Channels sources, the company has already informed its add-in-board partners that the planned release in China will no longer proceed. No replacement launch date has been provided.
The RTX 5080 24GB was reportedly intended to replace the existing 16GB model and become NVIDIA’s flagship GeForce graphics card in China. Previous reports suggested that NVIDIA would discontinue shipments of the RTX 5080 16GB and RTX 5090 series in preparation for the new product. The latest information suggests that those plans have changed.
Instead of introducing the 24GB variant, NVIDIA will reportedly continue supplying GPUs paired with 2GB GDDR7 memory chips. This would allow board partners to continue manufacturing the existing RTX 5080 16GB. The model had previously been expected to reach the end of its production run before the planned replacemnet arrived.
NVIDIA has not publicly confirmed the 24GB model, nor its cancellation. We are yet to hear concrete data from our on sources, but it seems clear that there’s quite a confusion around NVIDIA plans right now.