ISLAMABAD — Nvidia has reportedly canceled the January 2027 launch of its 24 GB GeForce RTX 5080 in China because the memory chips were too expensive. The company is expected to keep producing the existing 16 GB model, which the new card was rumored to replace.
The 24 GB card would have used the same graphics processor as the existing RTX 5080, with eight 3 GB GDDR7 memory chips in place of eight 2 GB chips. Gazlog reported that each 3 GB chip costs about three times as much as a 2 GB chip. Gizmochina cited an estimate that put the 24 GB model at around $2,000, roughly double the 16 GB Founders Edition’s $999 US launch price. Nvidia never announced a price for the 24 GB card.
How the Launch Fell Apart Earlier reports pointed to a China launch as soon as December 2026. Gazlog said Nvidia’s board partners were due to receive the documents they needed to design and test their own circuit boards and cooling systems in October, but the material had yet to arrive by the end of the month. Chinese supply-chain forum Board Channels later reported that Nvidia told its partners it had dropped the January launch plan and gave them no new date.