The fastest gaming graphics card money can buy may be living on borrowed time. Reports say Nvidia has reportedly halted RTX 5090 production, redirecting the card's GB202 silicon to pricier RTX Pro GPUs for AI data centers. Be clear on this: the production halt is unconfirmed — Nvidia has not confirmed it, and the story rests on a leaked factory notice, not an official announcement. But the sourcing is credible enough that the hardware world is taking this potential shake-up in Nvidia GPU production seriously, and the implications for GPU prices would be enormous. Where the RTX 5090 production halt reports came from The story surfaced on October 10, when hardware leakers shared what appeared to be an internal factory notice: Nvidia would no longer manufacture any RTX 5090 models — including China-specific D variants — reserving the GB202 chip for data center and professional cards. Video Games Chronicle and Tom's Hardware picked it up, though Nvidia had not responded to reque...