Friday, January 17th 2025
Report Suggests "Extreme" Stock Limits for GeForce RTX 5090 & 5080 GPUs in Germany
A moderator on the PC Games Hardware (PCGH.de) discussion board had disclosed worrying details regarding stock limitations—presumably affecting the upcoming GeForce RTX 50 series launch in Germany. In turn, this disclosure was picked up by PCGH's new department. The predicted circumstances will—reportedly—make matters most difficult for customers looking to acquire higher-end "Blackwell" GPUs. The forum moderator gathered damning evidence from his network of contacts: "I was able to learn from well-informed dealer circles, the available contingent of graphics cards will be extremely limited! This applies in particular to the GeForce RTX 5090. Accordingly, NVIDIA determines where and who exactly will offer graphics cards at market launch. B2B dealers and the entire local wholesale trade, which primarily also works with business customers, will most likely come away empty-handed."
A bit of humor was sprinkled in with this informative post—the moderator joked about customers resorting to "cheerful" repetitive pressings of their F5 keys. They posit that the online buying experience for flagship Blackwell GPUs will be tiring and frustrating: "...so anyone who wants to get a GeForce RTX 5090 or GeForce RTX 5080 at market launch will have to queue digitally at the end customer dealers together with waiting (private) customers. Scalpers and bots will probably also get involved here. The quantities that can be purchased are likely to be limited to a maximum of one unit." Several stores are listed as being prime sources of stock (see below)—they reckon that the likes of Amazon will be not be receiving initial batches. "Second, third, or even fourth" waves of stock are anticipated, with some retailers set to act as resellers—inevitably opening the door to predicted price gouging. It is not clear whether these alleged restrictions will come into effect in markets beyond German borders—additionally, the VideoCardz insider network has not discovered any behind-the-scenes information regarding Team Green's launch period supply strategy.
Here is Pokerclock's recommended list of German retailer outlets:
Sources:
PC Games Hardware DE Forum, PC Games Hardware DE Article, VideoCardz
A bit of humor was sprinkled in with this informative post—the moderator joked about customers resorting to "cheerful" repetitive pressings of their F5 keys. They posit that the online buying experience for flagship Blackwell GPUs will be tiring and frustrating: "...so anyone who wants to get a GeForce RTX 5090 or GeForce RTX 5080 at market launch will have to queue digitally at the end customer dealers together with waiting (private) customers. Scalpers and bots will probably also get involved here. The quantities that can be purchased are likely to be limited to a maximum of one unit." Several stores are listed as being prime sources of stock (see below)—they reckon that the likes of Amazon will be not be receiving initial batches. "Second, third, or even fourth" waves of stock are anticipated, with some retailers set to act as resellers—inevitably opening the door to predicted price gouging. It is not clear whether these alleged restrictions will come into effect in markets beyond German borders—additionally, the VideoCardz insider network has not discovered any behind-the-scenes information regarding Team Green's launch period supply strategy.
- Mindfactory
- Alternate (B2C, which excludes wave)
- Caseking (B2C—orders only via the online shop as a reseller)
- Cyberport/Computeruniverse
- NBB
- Pro Shop
28 Comments on Report Suggests "Extreme" Stock Limits for GeForce RTX 5090 & 5080 GPUs in Germany
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People who thought superior AI/LLM cards like the 5080 and 5090 were going to be "readily available" for gamers at the MSRP were either completely ignorant, utterly stupid, or both simultaneously.
The real worry is that the 5070 and 5070Ti are also going to be more valuable for AI/LLM than gaming. Perhaps this is where the inadequate VRAM approach Nvidia is using might actually be and advantage for gamers for all the wrong reasons.
Insufficent VRAM is offputting for gamers, but not as offputting as it is for the AI/LLM market.
The higher the demand, the less high prices seem excessive.
NVIDIA is the player, we are the game. :peace:
For gamers.
Not a chance to go back because this was the goal from the beginning.
Just because they say they care about gamers doesn’t mean they do. Or at least it’s not their priority.
This is industry, business and profits.
They sell GPU systems for 30-40k per piece with the very same architecture.
Also there is a limited amount of (raster) shaders you can pack on a given area.
And fab nodes are progressing slowly and slowly on every iteration while demand for traditional computing is growing faster. AI/ML stuff is pretty much a one way street at this point. Maybe a manufactured street on some level, but still.
Our current non AI tech is reaching to its limits.
A breakthrough on “electronics” will be needed soon.
if you need a new machine because your previous one no longer works and you can’t get anything thats an other problem.
You can’t make up comedy this good!
I still think this is not true. Even a relatively small demand increase at the start of cryptomining crazes coincided with cards just not being available in retail, because they were bought outside of regular supply channels - businesses have many options to do that.
I think what we have seen is just Nvidia not giving any care on how many RTX graphics cards they even sell - they have their cash cows elsewhere with dedicated server equipment. By raising the price they could limit the number of runs for the gaming GPU processors and run the more profitable lines of products.
The same will happen with RTX 50x0 line. Every gaming card sold is a missed opportunity of not selling a 10x more expensive server part.
And the best part? Since Nvidia can internally channel their revenue, they can show a record Gaming revenue, and brag how they are good to gamers - and at the same time not selling anything.
Regarding the poor stock - no one will care, anyways, if the rumours about single-digit performance increase turns out as the truth.
You can’t be 2nd top company on the planet just by selling GPUs to gamers.
so my guess is Berkshire Hathaway which has over 300 billion in cash on hand.
So intel goes private but stays intel and the X86 license stays "safe"