Schrödinger's GPU set for an early 2027 release as the dead/alive 24 GB RTX 5080 Super box is shaken once more

It kinda looks like the only actually gaming-focused Nvidia GPU we're going to be left with next year is an RTX 5070 Ti. And even then only at a massively inflated price point. That's my personal takeaway from the rumours of the RTX 5090 being axed in favour of shifting GB202 GPUs to professional RTX Pro cards, and of a 24 GB RTX 5080 being brought in to replace the 16 GB version in early 2027.

This comes from almost a throwaway paragraph towards the end of a post on Benchlife about the bye-bye of the RTX 5090 from commercial production. According to the Taiwanese outlet, add-in board/card partners (AIBs or AICs) have been informed, verbally, that while they don't have anything concrete as yet, a 24 GB RTX 5080 will have its "product development data" released soon.

So, folks such as Asus and MSI have reportedly not been told much about the proposed new card, and that I would …