In case you have been hoping to get your arms on a brand new, extremely highly effective, extremely costly Nvidia graphics card… perhaps it’s time to make like Luke Skywalker and discover a new hope. In keeping with one retailer in the UK, it’s going to take “3-16 weeks” to get new RTX 5090 playing cards in inventory. The RTX 5080, a lot cheaper and far much less warmly acquired, will take “2-6 weeks.”
That’s in accordance with Oveerlcokers UK, posting an replace on its inventory scenario simply sooner or later after the playing cards’ launch final Thursday. “Due to incredibly high demand and limited stock, all 50 Series cards sold shortly after launch with some pre-orders taken in restricted quantities.” It’s hardly stunning since even the bigger retailers like Greatest Purchase and Newegg gave the impression to be out of all new card variants lower than an hour after the official launch.
Overclockers UK’s esitmate doesn’t essentially symbolize the stock outlook for the whole market, however the scenario certain appears grim for anybody attempting to improve their desktops. We’ve grown accustomed to new high-end GPUs being in brief provide, and it appears like this launch is an particularly egregious instance.
A narrative out of Japan reveals an rising degree of frustration and desperation amongst early customers. A PC Studio retail store in Akihabara needed to apologize to each its prospects and its neighbors, because the unruly crowd for the launch induced a number of accidents and even reported “damage to a neighboring kindergarten fences and signage” in accordance with a report from Tom’s {Hardware}. All this was regardless of the shop utilizing a raffle system to promote the restricted quantity of playing cards accessible within the bodily retailer.
The brand new RTX 5090 and 5080 ought to at the least get slightly firm soon-ish: Nvidia’s personal RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti are on the best way, as are the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT from AMD. None of these playing cards have a particular launch date in the meanwhile, although they need to all be right here earlier than the tip of March. (Which is properly earlier than that “16 weeks” determine.) In case you want a card that prices lower than a automotive fee, Intel’s new Arc B580 and B570 are hitting the worth phase.
Even so, it appears that evidently many patrons (and maybe AI startups) gained’t settle for something lower than a high-powered GeForce card as of late, and Nvidia will promote each one that it might probably make. Scalpers and different resellers are consuming properly, if they will discover any, with some confirmed eBay listings going for as a lot as 3 times the retail value.
