In less than an hour after being on sale last week, the last of Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 And 5090 graphics cards have all disappeared from physical and online retailers in the United States, the inventory dried so quickly that he seems that Nvidia may not have been for sale, which prompted the People starting to call it a “paper launch. “”
Before the launch last week, the chief of the GeForce community of Nvidia, Tim Adams, warned everyone That the new GPUs could be difficult to find: “We expect an important demand for the GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 and think that stocks can occur.”
And they were absolutely, because the two graphics cards in the 50 series sold on Amazon, Micro Center, Best Buy and Newegg as soon as they put online. Newegg said that he “had experienced an overwhelming response” and sold his inventory “in a few minutes”, according to A press release Last Friday.
Hardware youtuber pc Nexus players reported that one of the largest integrators of American systems, or companies that set up pre-constructed PCs, had only one RTX 5090 on the launch day and received only “small expedition” Later the same day. Another company had 20 cards which it sold via pre-constructions in three minutes.
A banner at the top of Micro-center website said he “works hard to restore more GPU NVIDIA RTX 50-series” and to check regularly. But it could be some time before being available again. British retailer UK overclockers Do not expect to have the RTX 5080 again for two to six weeks and the RTX 5090 for three to 16 additional weeks. A Reddit user Who managed to obtain an RTX 5090 in Best Buy should not obtain it before February 21, which suggests that the American retailers are in the same boat.
Whether or not Nvidia has cards to sell first is not clear, but the demand is clearly high for the 50 series. According to the Steaming material survey results For January 2025, most of its users play games on RTX 3060s, a GPU two generations behind. Modern games like Dragon Age: The Veilguard always Recommend older GPUsWhatever the coming games like Declared And Monster Hunter: Wilds Start recommending 40 series cards to use the shelves tracing. For all the people who felt the supply shortages And price inflation during the first years of Covid, it would have been the ideal time to upgrade your graphics card … if it was to buy.