New studies have indicated that the soon-to-be-released Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 will probably be fairly exhausting to seek 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’ palms – together with ours – however in the case of shopping for them, these GPUs may be lacking from shops.
Chatting with Moore’s Regulation is Useless (MLiD), a YouTube channel devoted to {hardware} information, 4 sources detailed the state of affairs surrounding the 2 RTX 50-series playing cards. The primary supply claimed that they’ve solely acquired “~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 bought “extra 5080s, however it’s a fraction of what we acquired for the 4080” two years in the past. One other supply, an EU producer (AIB), says that the 5090 will probably be “very uncommon” however doesn’t count on to see the 5080 as too exhausting to get. They describe the inventory as an “OK provide.”
Even Nvidia workers will battle to get their palms 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 probably be restricted in inventory. “We had 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 simple to get three years in the past.
In the meantime, Zotac doesn’t count on to ship its 5090 GPUs till February. Nonetheless, exterior components could possibly be inflicting the potential inventory points.
In keeping 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 Yr competition and “communication points between Nvidia and [other manufacturers].”
With this stated, Benchlife expects the extra inexpensive Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti to start delivery in “mid-to-late February.” Nonetheless, these hoping to improve their PC to the much more inexpensive RTX 5070, may want to attend somewhat longer, as in line with Benchlife these received’t hit the market till “early March.”
