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Chinese tech platform Channel Gate is reporting that Nvidia is soon to transition from 6GB to 24GB models for the RTX 5080, following reports earlier in the month that the RTX 5090 was effectively discontinued - reports that Nvidia has since firmly denied. Interestingly, the RTX 5080 24GB could arrive in some markets as early as December this year, and effectively becomes the top GeForce GPU offering in a world where RTX 5090 cards are unaffordable and/or in extremely limited supply.
According to the ChannelGate report, the RTX 5080 16GB and RTX 5090 D V2 will no longer be supplied to Chinese retailers. The country currently has around two months' supply of RTX 5080 16GB units, so by December that supply should be essentially exhausted, neatly bookending the arrival of the new 24GB cards - which use the new 3GB GDDR7 memory modules that were previously expected to form the basis of a new RTX 50-Series Super lineup.
The timing here is still in flux, with the Channel Gate report suggesting that the December date is the earliest possible time the 24GB RTX 5080 could debut, while a more conservative timeframe would see the new GPU variant arrive in January 2027 instead.
Normally, the Chinese market precedes the global GPU market by a matter of weeks at most, so it's expected that the RTX 5080 24GB would arrive worldwide in a broadly similar timeframe rather than remaining as a China-exclusive product.
At present this report doesn't provide any hard evidence to substantiate its claims, but with January a terrifying two months away, we don't have too long to wait to see if they bear fruit.
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