Nvidia may have ended RTX 50 Founders Edition GPU production — report suggests move is in preparation for ‘Super’ refresh

If you want to buy an Nvidia graphics card, arguably the most obvious place to do so is on Nvidia’s website, where they are available at MSRP. Usually, when GPUs go out of stock there, the listing changes to say “Currently Unavailable” — like the GeForce RTX 5090 listing indicated for most of its existence. Now, however, the majority of the Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 50 series Founders Edition cards have vanished from the store entirely, with only the GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition remaining.

What does this mean? Well, you can’t buy one, for starters. There are still listings for the GPUs at e-tailers like Newegg and Amazon, but they’re selling at grossly inflated prices. The reasonable expectation is that Nvidia has run out of stock on those cards and has no intention to produce more.

Nvidia hasn’t officially announced the end of production for these models, but it wouldn’t exactly come as a surprise. We’ve been hearing rumblings for months regarding a potential refresh of the GeForce RTX 50 series, and most believe that the new GPUs would come along bearing a ‘Super’ moniker, just as the GPU maker first did with the GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards back in 2019.

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The RTX 20 Super series brought along significant upgrades to the Turing GPU family, where cards like the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER offered as much as 20% better performance than the original recipe. Things may not play out the same way this time, though; according to the leaks and rumors we’ve seen, this refresh might be about addressing community complaints concerning the arguably middling amounts of video RAM available on the otherwise bleeding-edge Blackwell GPUs. The GeForce RTX 5080 comes with 16GB, just half of the 5090’s 32GB, and the GeForce RTX 5070 only has an underwhelming 12GB.