THE CRUNCH
The GeForce RTX 5080 has disappeared from Nvidia's US marketplace, following the RTX 5090's removal roughly two weeks earlier. The store's GPU filter now tops out at the RTX 5070 Ti, and partner RTX 5080 listings are gone too. Meanwhile, the cheapest RTX 5080 in stock at US retailers, a PNY model, sells for $2,199.99, more than 2.2 times its $999 launch price.
The removal breaks Nvidia's usual pattern: the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 remain listed even when marked out of stock, presumably so shoppers can anticipate restocks. A missing listing could simply mean no stock is left, and the removal appears limited to the US for now, as Nvidia's UK marketplace still shows 13 RTX 5080 listings and two RTX 5090 cards. Oddly, the RTX 5080 product page still says "Starting at $999."
Nvidia has denied that the RTX 5090 is discontinued, though it has said nothing about the RTX 5080's status. In October, senior VP Jeff Fisher reportedly told Taiwanese outlets that RTX 5090 production had not stopped and that the supply chain is constrained but Nvidia is doing what it can to ship cards.
Rumours circulating since early October claim Nvidia has stopped allocating GB202 silicon, the large Blackwell chip behind the RTX 5090, to GeForce cards in favour of the pricier RTX Pro workstation line, and that an RTX 5080 24GB will become the top gaming card. Nvidia has not confirmed any of this. Even if a 24GB variant arrives, it would not be a direct replacement for the RTX 5090, which has roughly twice the CUDA cores.