Nvidia’s rumored RTX 5080 Super has been cancelled we’re told
This GPU refresh was supposedly due to launch at the start of 2027
It was canned due to the cost of the 24GB of video RAM, which makes sense – but PC gamers are getting increasingly frustrated with Nvidia at this point
Nvidia’s RTX 5080 Super – an expected spin on the GPU with 24GB of VRAM – has been ditched according to the grapevine. VideoCardz highlighted a post on the Board Channels (a common source of leaks over in China) which claims that the RTX 5080 Super was due for a launch in January 2027 (as previous rumors indicated), but it’s now cancelled. Seemingly Nvidia has informed graphics card manufacturers over in China that the launch is not happening, without providing any "clear subsequent launch schedule" (bear in mind that’s a translation from Chinese), meaning that in theory this isn’t just a delay – the Super GPU is apparently canned. This is a different sentiment to a rumor from a week ago that the RTX 5080 Super was delayed by Nvidia , which didn’t go as far as to suggest that the GPU refresh has been abandoned. Clearly, though, something’s amiss with the heavily rumored RTX 5080 Super, and it makes sense that, as all this speculation points out, it’s to do with the video RAM. In reaching to hit 24GB of VRAM, the RTX 5080 Super would be using 3GB modules of GDDR7 – as opposed to the 2GB modules on the vanilla RTX 5080 – and those beefier memory chips are now so much more expensive that it’s a big stumbling block. Meanwhile, we’re told that the plain RTX 5080 (16GB) will remain the flagship in China – the RTX 5090 isn’t sold in the country, of course, and arguably, it effectively isn’t sold anywhere else either, not at a sensible price anyway. Stock of the Blackwell flagship has become very thin on the ground everywhere , meaning you’re looking at paying triple to quadruple the MSRP in many regions, or maybe even more than that (the GPU has tipped up towards 10 grand in the US ). It’s got to the point where rather than buying a standalone graphics card, the best way to bag yourself an RTX 5090 is in a high-end PC with a deal …