The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming Nvidia has shelved January’s planned Chinese launch of a 24GB GeForce RTX 5080.
According to VideoCardz, the problem appears to be the price of GDDR7 memory, which even an outfit accustomed to charging enthusiast prices can apparently find offensive.
Sources claim Nvidia has informed its graphics card partners that the January 2027 release will not proceed, and no replacement date has been supplied.
The proposed card would have replaced the existing 16GB RTX 5080 and become Nvidia’s flagship GeForce offering in China. Earlier supply-chain claims suggested shipments of the current model would end to make room for it.
That cunning plan depended on fitting eight 3GB GDDR7 chips in place of the eight 2GB devices used today. This would provide 50 per cent more memory without requiring a wider memory interface or a different GPU.
Unfortunately, the sources put the price of those 3GB chips at approximately three times that of their 2GB counterparts. The extra capacity comes with a less attractive improvement in the memory bill.
That comparison concerns the individual memory chips, so it cannot be used to calculate a retail price for the complete card. Nvidia never announced one.
According to the same sources, Nvidia will continue supplying GPUs with 2GB GDDR7 chips, allowing partners to keep manufacturing the 16GB RTX 5080. The outgoing model appears to have learned that its replacement may not be ready.
Memory costs have previously been linked to delays affecting the proposed RTX 5080 Super, another card expected to carry 24GB. Buyers waiting for more capacity have learned a lot about waiting.
VideoCardz says its own sources have yet to provide concrete confirmation, and Nvidia has publicly confirmed neither the 24GB RTX 5080 nor its cancellation.
