Anyone waiting for an RTX 5080 with more VRAM might need to rethink that upgrade plan. According to TechPowerUp, citing Board Channels, NVIDIA has reportedly told its add-in card partners to cancel a planned January 2027 launch for a 24GB version.
The reported sticking point is memory: securing enough 3GB GDDR7 modules, and making the economics work. The existing 16GB RTX 5080, which uses less expensive 2GB modules, is expected to continue instead.
The key distinction: this is a reported cancellation of a rumoured model, not a confirmed NVIDIA product announcement.
Why the extra memory is becoming a problem
TechPowerUp attributes the decision to constrained memory supplies and the higher cost of 3GB GDDR7 modules. Those higher-capacity modules were central to the proposed 24GB configuration.
The report says that using them under current conditions would push the card’s suggested retail price significantly higher, with customers ultimately facing a more expensive product. Keeping the 16GB configuration means continuing with the cheaper 2GB modules instead.
That explains the reported decision, but it does not give us a price for the cancelled variant—or establish what an RTX 5080 will cost in Malaysia. There is no local pricing or availability information in this report.
More VRAM, not a completely different GPU
The proposed refresh was not expected to change the CUDA core count. Its main anticipated improvements were additional memory capacity and increased memory bandwidth.
Slightly higher clock speeds and power consumption were also possibilities, rather than firm specifications. In other words, this was shaping up as a memory-focused revision, not a wholesale replacement of the underlying GPU configuration.
Going from 16GB to 24GB would have meant 50% more memory capacity. That is a meaningful specification change, but it should not be confused with a promise of 50% higher gaming performance. The source provides no benchmark results for the proposed card.
What this means for Malaysia and SEA buyers
Our take: the useful takeaway for Malaysian and wider SEA readers is about purchase planning, not an immediate change to local shop shelves.
If extra VRAM was the reason you were holding out, this report weakens the case for waiting specifically for a January 2027 RTX 5080 refresh. However, it is still a report, so treating that launch window as definitively settled would go too far.
Equally, the reported cancellation does not make the existing 16GB card better or worse overnight. A buying decision should still come down to tested performance in your games and applications, your requirements, and the actual price offered—not specifications attached to an unreleased variant.
No clear replacement refresh on the horizon
TechPowerUp also notes the absence of rumours pointing to an imminent SUPER overhaul, framing the current lineup as the likely holding pattern ahead of the next-generation GeForce RTX 60-series, referred to as Rubin.
That is not a replacement launch timetable. For now, the narrower takeaway is the important one: the reported 24GB upgrade appears to have hit a memory-cost roadblock, while the standard 16GB RTX 5080 remains the model in play.