Monday, January 27th 2025
MSI Confirms Tight Supply of GeForce RTX 5090/5080 GPUs at Launch, Situation to Improve in February
MSI has officially confirmed that its upcoming GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards will face limited availability when they launch on January 30, coinciding with the second day of the Lunar New Year. According to MSI's official account, the constrained supply originates from an insufficient allocation of GPU cores provided by NVIDIA, making it difficult for the manufacturer to meet the expected high demand. Some retailers even claimed they only receive single-digit quantities of these cards, leading to a dramatic price hike in certain regions. In extreme cases, prices have been observed at nearly twice the official MSRP, leaving many potential buyers concerned about availability and affordability. Taiwanese media outlet BenchLife.info previously indicated that "communication issues" between NVIDIA and its board partners contributed to the limited supply. These complications and holiday-related manufacturing and shipping disruptions have constrained how many units can be delivered to stores by launch day.
As a result, enthusiasts aiming to purchase a new GPU at MSRP—or even at slightly higher prices—might face an uphill battle. Despite the rocky start, supply levels will gradually improve in February. The precise rate of this improvement is unclear, but many anticipate that more stock will arrive as production normalizes and communication between NVIDIA and its partners recovers. For now, consumers should prepare for limited stock and potentially inflated prices, especially on day one of the launch. Those hoping to upgrade immediately may need to secure a pre-order or wait until supply becomes more stable in the coming weeks. Scalpers are already reserving "guaranteed" slots for RTX 5090 GPU at up to $7000 per GPU, indicating that supply is tight. However, we must wait for the official launch day to see if the situation improves.
Sources:
ITHome, via Wccftech
As a result, enthusiasts aiming to purchase a new GPU at MSRP—or even at slightly higher prices—might face an uphill battle. Despite the rocky start, supply levels will gradually improve in February. The precise rate of this improvement is unclear, but many anticipate that more stock will arrive as production normalizes and communication between NVIDIA and its partners recovers. For now, consumers should prepare for limited stock and potentially inflated prices, especially on day one of the launch. Those hoping to upgrade immediately may need to secure a pre-order or wait until supply becomes more stable in the coming weeks. Scalpers are already reserving "guaranteed" slots for RTX 5090 GPU at up to $7000 per GPU, indicating that supply is tight. However, we must wait for the official launch day to see if the situation improves.
42 Comments on MSI Confirms Tight Supply of GeForce RTX 5090/5080 GPUs at Launch, Situation to Improve in February
So I think chances of sudden inrush of "cheap sub $3000" products is unlikely this year. Or in the future, unless situation changes - Nvidia starts to produce them elsewhere, or they face the competition in server AI or downturn in interest.
This could end up way worse situation for gamers than cryptomining rush. We have already gotten seemingly crappiest generational performance uplift, with zero price / performance uplift (unless you count fake frames), and with scarcity we might be going backwards, and not by a small margin.
Nvidia said they don't even earn anything extra, since all the scalping was done by AIBs and end sellers, and they provided cards for the contract prices - we all know that was a lie, Nvidia suddenly got record revenues in all their segments, even completely unrelated ones, and after the crypto crashed, everything fell down to pre-crypto levels.
AIBs also tried to hide or shift the blame to Nvidia, but their behaviour after the crypto hype ended - leaving ultra high prices for months when nobody was buying anything, it was obvious they were still rolling in money.
It is just corpo talk that they going to make it expensiveSame here :toast:
And we know what the markups for the higher models is this round, for almost zero gain, just a bit of bling they want 30, 40% more...
Pathetic :roll:
It's like telling your boss that even though you're terribly ill and can't go to work right now, you will definitely get better by next Tuesday.
9700xtx is smaller than the 4090 and much smaller than the 5090
9070 is just a bit bigger than half of the 5090
I find it much more plausible that good chips are reserved for Ti / Super "refreshes" and/or datacentre SKUs.
Edit: Even worse than x90-grade chips are probably being reserved for a 5080 Super coming roughly this time next year.
- which year -> 2056?
- which day of february -> 28th?
Some people in my area say february but in reality they mean end of school year, 30th of june