NVIDIA has quietly removed its GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics cards from its online marketplace. This removal seems to affect all international online stores, including those in the US, Germany, the UK, and France. In the US, NVIDIA now only offers the Founders Edition version of the GeForce RTX 5070, which includes a Borderlands 4 game as a bonus. The Founders Edition versions of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are absent, with AIB-designed versions taking their place. The situation is similar in the UK, while stores in France and Germany only list the RTX 5070 and RTX 5080 Founders Editions, with no RTX 5090 Founders Edition available.

One possible reason for this could be that NVIDIA is preparing a mid-cycle refresh with the RTX 50 SUPER series and wants to avoid excess inventory of non-SUPER models. However, this would mainly affect the RTX 5070 and RTX 5080, which are rumored to receive the SUPER upgrade. There is no clear explanation for the absence of the RTX 5090 Founders Edition from all global stores, especially given the high demand and record-breaking gaming revenues . An End-of-Life (EOL) scenario seems unlikely. We can only speculate about NVIDIA's reasons for this removal, but it might be an inventory adjustment, as NVIDIA could have distributed too many of these models to other retailers, leaving none for its own store. We will continue to monitor the marketplace for updates in the coming days.