Nvidias GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 sells almost instantly out

No points to guess this one in advance. The morning of the official retailer for Nvidia’s next Gen GeForce RTX 50-Series graphics card, they are almost impossible to actually order in online stores in the US just an hour after the sale began. Since lines were seen to form a day ago at retailers of brick and mortar, it is safe to assume that a similar situation is in play there.

Despite prices mostly raised from the originally advertised MSRP for RTX 5080 and RTX 5090, each of the 47 different variations on Newegg’s Website is now sold out, from $ 999.99 Basic Model RTX 5080 to $ 2,799.99 ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090. Some of these may or may not have been available for purchases, as many of the cards listed on Best Buy (also completely sold out) appear as “coming soon.”

It is perhaps expected that the new cards would be difficult to find at the launch, as this has been the case for Nvidia launches for years. And since it’s two years since a significant generation jump for RTX, this is hardly a surprise. Still, Nvidia seems to have particularly low supplies this time, something it is warned about in advance. When we talk to retailers and third -party manufacturers, we have been asked to expect the low supply to continue. MSI, one of the more productive NVIDIA partners, does not expect to have the RTX 5090 share to send from its online store until February 6th.

Are these cards worth the price, or actually the hundreds of dollars more, as some of the gently upgraded AIB design requires? It depends on what you are looking for. While the full -fat 5090 ($ 2000 for Nvidia’s self -labeled founder edition) appears to cut mustard as the new most powerful card on the market, the RTX 5080 is disappointed with initial reviews, offering a much more modest power upgrade over the last generation and leaning hard on Nvidia’s DLS and framework generation technologies.

Editorial I wonder if these original supply problems have something to do with it still booming AI market. Massive AI -Datacenters are most of the discreet GPUs, most of which are nvidia chips. While many of these are more tailor -made B2B design, it is more than possible to build the “large iron” machines on the same short -sought by PC players.

I would also ask our readers not to enrich the scalps that instantly tilt the latest GPUs for double or triple profits. If you don’t stop paying them, they don’t stop doing so. No matter how little delivery of $ 1000+ graphics cards are, there are only so many people with the kind of disposable income it takes to give them and you will almost certainly be able to find a GPU at retail price within a pair months.