Nvidia reportedly says RTX 5090 isn't dead despite severe shortages
Nvidia reportedly insists its RTX 5090 graphics card is not dead despite severe shortages and removed retailer listings, according to Tom's Hardware.
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What happened
On 17 October 2026, two technology websites reported on Nvidia’s RTX 5090, a high-end graphics card. A graphics card, or GPU, is the part of a computer that draws images on screen, and it is widely used for gaming.
According to Tom’s Hardware, Nvidia reportedly insists the RTX 5090 is not dead, even though the card faces severe shortages and its listings have been removed at multiple retailers [1].
TechRadar wrote that the RTX 5090 seems to be disappearing from sale. Its article asks whether Nvidia is pulling the plug on its GeForce range of graphics cards, which is the brand Nvidia uses for its gaming GPUs. It also asks whether the company is turning to cloud gaming instead. Cloud gaming means playing games that run on remote servers and are streamed to the player’s device [2]. The article’s author says they are worried about GeForce GPUs [2].
The reports do not give a full account of what Nvidia plans for the GeForce range, so the questions raised by TechRadar remain open in the sources.
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