New stories have indicated that the soon-to-be-released Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 will likely be fairly onerous to search out at launch. The flagship and the subsequent step-down playing cards seem to have been delivered at a fraction of the amount of earlier generations.
The RTX 5090 and 5080 are Nvidia’s now present era powerhouses. Introduced at CES 2025, these playing cards are simply touchdown in reviewers’ fingers – together with ours – however in the case of shopping for them, these GPUs is perhaps lacking from shops.
Chatting with Moore’s Legislation is Useless (MLiD), a YouTube channel devoted to {hardware} information, 4 sources detailed the scenario surrounding the 2 RTX 50-series playing cards. The primary supply claimed that they’ve solely obtained “~20 RTX 5080s for the primary month of gross sales”, whereas getting “zero 5090s”.
The opposite three sources corroborate this, with their second supply stating that they’ve acquired “extra 5080s, nevertheless it’s a fraction of what we obtained for the 4080” two years in the past. One other supply, an EU producer (AIB), says that the 5090 will likely be “very uncommon” however doesn’t anticipate to see the 5080 as too onerous to get. They describe the inventory as an “OK provide.”
Even Nvidia employees will wrestle to get their fingers on the newest GPU. MLiD’s Nvidia insider claims that the RTX 5090 FE, the “inventory” or “reference” card for the 5090 made by the corporate itself, will likely be restricted in inventory. “We have been warned that there received’t be many RTX 5090 FEs accessible from the Worker Retailer at launch.” They add that the 4090 FE was fairly straightforward to get three years in the past.
In the meantime, Zotac doesn’t anticipate to ship its 5090 GPUs till February. Nevertheless, exterior elements may very well be inflicting the potential inventory points.
In accordance with Benchlife, and translated by common GPU fanatic Harukaze5719 on X, the RTX 5000 collection playing cards are in restricted provide. That is being attributed to the upcoming Lunar 12 months pageant and “communication points between Nvidia and [other manufacturers].”
With this stated, Benchlife expects the extra reasonably priced Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti to start transport in “mid-to-late February.” Nevertheless, these hoping to improve their PC to the much more reasonably priced RTX 5070, may want to attend a bit longer, as in accordance with Benchlife these received’t hit the market till “early March.”
