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Nvidia's flagship RTX 5090 graphics card remains technically in production, but retail availability has dried up, with resale listings reportedly reaching as high as $10,000. Nvidia has pointed to continued manufacturing as evidence the card is still active in its lineup, even as consumers struggle to find it near its original price.
Nvidia senior VP Jeff Fisher reportedly told Taiwanese outlets 4Gamers and SJTV that the RTX 5090 has not been discontinued, acknowledging constrained supply chain capacity but insisting the company is working to keep shipping the card. The comments follow rumors that production was halted to redirect manufacturing capacity toward AI accelerators, and come after outlets like Tom's Hardware got no official response from Nvidia. A check of retailers found RTX 5090s largely unavailable or marked up to $7,300-$8,500, often through third-party or overseas sellers.
A Reddit user posted photos showing Japanese retail prices for Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics cards running 5.66% to 41.1% higher than equivalent Amazon US listings, with the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB showing the steepest markup. The comparison, converted at current exchange rates, found RTX 5080 cards averaging a 12.71% premium over US pre-tax prices, with the gap narrowing to under 4% when an 8.5% US sales tax is factored in. Notably, the RTX 5090 was absent from the Japanese listings entirely.
Nvidia announced an October update to DLSS 5 that doubles performance versus the current model, a 10x gain since March. The update shrinks the model to 118 million parameters, cuts 4K VRAM usage by 20%, and halves GPU overhead at similar image quality, boosting frame rates by up to 1.4x. The faster model debuts in NBA 2K27 on October 16, with Hogwarts Legacy support coming next month, alongside a new faster Performance Mode for Frame Generation on RTX 40 and 50 series GPUs.
Nvidia has released new comparison screenshots showing a less aggressive version of DLSS 5 for Hogwarts Legacy, which will ship with the feature on November 5th. The earlier demo had drawn criticism for making a 15-year-old student look like a middle-aged man, but the new images show more subtle facial and environmental changes. Nvidia is also rolling out an October update that shrinks the DLSS 5 model by 24 percent and cuts 4K VRAM usage by 20 percent, debuting first in NBA 2K27 on October 16th.
An open-source GitHub project called DLSS-NR-on-AMD is reimplementing Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering runtime to work on AMD Radeon RX 9000 and RX 7000 series cards, currently supporting DirectX 12 titles that use FSR, including Cyberpunk 2077 and GTA V Enhanced. Early builds saw frame rates collapse from over 80 FPS to around 11-12 FPS on a Radeon RX 9070 XT, but successive alpha releases have delivered roughly 74% combined performance gains within 24 hours, and a new AMDNR launcher now automates installation.
GPU prices are climbing sharply, with NVIDIA's RTX 50-series up as much as 39 percent and AMD cards rising up to 10 percent, driven by demand from AI companies and individuals building local AI setups. Cards with large VRAM capacities, such as the older NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, are commanding strong resale value because they can handle AI workloads despite their age.
CyberPowerPC is offering pre-built gaming PCs containing Nvidia RTX 5070, 5080 and 5090 Founders Edition GPUs on Walmart, timed to Nvidia's GeForce Week promotion running September 21-27. The builds are discounted between roughly $580 and over $1,300 off their listed prices, though supplies are limited.
A developer known as MAAN built a browser-based demo that reimplements Nvidia's DLSS 5 neural rendering network using WebGPU compute shaders, hosted on Cloudflare Workers with adjustable settings and sample scenes. The port reportedly works on non-Nvidia GPUs and even macOS, using roughly 147MB of extracted model weights alongside a small JavaScript runtime, though each rendered frame currently takes one to two seconds. MAAN says the weights came from a leaked DLSS 5 library file and plans to release the source code on GitHub soon.
A developer released an experimental utility called NvpwrControl on GitHub that lets owners of NVIDIA RTX 50-series gaming laptops manually raise their GPU's power limit beyond factory settings. According to VideoCardz, the tool can push the RTX 5090 Laptop GPU's ceiling up to 225W, roughly 40W above its stock maximum with Dynamic Boost.
A modder known as dashdogy has released a workaround that unlocks Nvidia's DLSS Multi Frame Generation feature, normally exclusive to RTX 50-series cards, on older RTX 40-series and earlier GPUs. Tom's Hardware tested the mod in Cyberpunk 2077 and confirmed it genuinely boosts perceived smoothness beyond the officially supported 2X multiplier, complete with the same visual artifacts seen on official 50-series hardware.
Nvidia's DLSS 5 has launched as an official feature in NBA 2K27, marking the first first-party implementation of the technology after weeks of community mods. Tom's Hardware tested it across the full RTX 50-series lineup, finding it demands a notable performance cost but still runs at 1080p on nearly every Blackwell GPU.