Monday, January 20th 2025
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 And RTX 5080 Likely to Be Extremely Hard to Get at Launch
Recently, we covered a rumor arising from PCGH which stated that the RTX 5090, and perhaps even the RTX 5080, are gearing up to face an extremely stock-limited launch in Germany. Now, it appears that customers in North America will likely face very similar circumstances, if the claims made by tipster Moore's Law is Dead's sources are taken to be true. MLID spoke with several sources, including distributors and AIBs, all of whom had the same thing to say - it is going be quite hard to snag an RTX 5090 or RTX 5080 at launch.
One of the distributors that MLID apparently spoke with, went as far as to comment that they simply won't be having any RTX 5090s at all in the first month of launch. Further, while they received almost 200 RTX 4080s during the previous launch season, they only expect to get 20 units of the RTX 5080 this time around. As for the RTX 5090, they do not foresee inventory before late Q1, or even Q2 of this year. A second source, who claimed to be from an AIB partner, stated that while they will have RTX 5080s ready at launch, they are "only a fraction" of the RTX 4080s they had last time. Moreover, the number of RTX 5090s they claim to have matches that of the RTX 3090s they had, which, for those who don't remember, suffered from severe supply shortages at launch.
Another source in the EU claimed something along the same lines, and a source from NVIDIA revealed that they have already been warned that the stocks in the NVIDIA Employee Store will be very limited, unlike the RTX 4090s, which were easily available at the employee store at launch. Clearly, as mentioned previously, scoring a RTX 5090 at launch might turn out to be even more difficult than previously thought, despite the supply chain having mostly recovered. The reason behind the limited supply of RTX 50-series GPUs is not clear, but it might be fair to state that NVIDIA is bottlenecking supply to handle scalpers. That said, how launch availability for the RTX 5090 and 5080 plays out in real life, remains to be seen.
Source:
Moore's Law Is Dead
One of the distributors that MLID apparently spoke with, went as far as to comment that they simply won't be having any RTX 5090s at all in the first month of launch. Further, while they received almost 200 RTX 4080s during the previous launch season, they only expect to get 20 units of the RTX 5080 this time around. As for the RTX 5090, they do not foresee inventory before late Q1, or even Q2 of this year. A second source, who claimed to be from an AIB partner, stated that while they will have RTX 5080s ready at launch, they are "only a fraction" of the RTX 4080s they had last time. Moreover, the number of RTX 5090s they claim to have matches that of the RTX 3090s they had, which, for those who don't remember, suffered from severe supply shortages at launch.
32 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 And RTX 5080 Likely to Be Extremely Hard to Get at Launch
drip-feed-launch?
maximum torture for the impatient?
How exactly bottlenecking the supply will help with scalpers?
All these games Nvidia is playing to screw with buyers when these new cards aren't going to be notably better except for the 5090 (and even then that comes at monetary and TDP cost).
BTW, AMD's Zen 5 X3D CPUs are also made on a 5nm process again. So, what is your explanation for that one? Also market manipulation by AMD? :D
Spoiler: Nope. They are subject to the same (partially self-imposed) constraints. AMD also want to sell more Instinct, Threadripper and EPYC and less low margin consumer crap.
It's the most valuable company in the world now, they can do better for non-datacenters consumers and prosumers, especially if they are using a TSMC 4NP the (nearly) same one used back in 2022 (so cheaper and with most high-end like Apple switching to 2/3N). It's not datacenters revenues, it's still a multi-billion a year market in their quarters financial report
Remember when nVidia sold MANY 3xxx series cards to Farms if they could sell en mass? I smell similar happening again.
All the prices are going to be +$300 over MSRP at a minimum because Scalpers will have them all. And NVidia won't release enough to actually satisfy the demand, thus keeping prices high.Almost none. Microsoft/Google/Amazon are buying the $5000 to $15,000 cards. There's no way NVidia is willing to let them get "only" $2000 or $3000 out of a card when NVidia has licenses, deals, and more VRAM that these companies need in the higher price tiers.
'nuff said :)
:laugh:
That person who wants it will get it for a "reasonable price" (up to a zillion currency)