‘If you want an RTX 5080 better buy one while you can still afford one’: as Nvidia’s RTX 5090 reportedly disappears, gamers are worried about more price hikes — and I’m concerned about the entire future of GeForce GPUs

It’s been a theory for quite some time now that Nvidia is — what’s the polite way to put this? — let’s say deprioritizing PC gamers, perhaps, or more specifically, its gaming graphics cards. But this week has added more evidence to the collective weight that GeForce GPUs are increasingly at risk of being sidelined further by Team Green.

I’m talking first about the story that emerged a few days ago, where a leaker claimed Nvidia is diverting all GB202 (Blackwell) chips to make AI (RTX Pro) graphics cards. That’s the graphics processor used in the RTX 5090, but apparently not anymore; it’s for AI boards only now, we’re told.