MSI's US Store Postpones GeForce RTX 5090 GPU Shipments, Delayed Until February 6

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Earlier this week, MSI's China office admitted that it had only a limited supply of GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards available for launch day. A VideoCardz report from last night points out similar problems affecting retail channels in North America. MSI's official US store has delayed shipments of GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 cards. This announcement was extracted from a conversation conducted via Discord—between a company representative (MSI Spence) and a VideoCardz staffer (WhyCry). In full, MSI stated: "we are going to allow GeForce RTX 5090 pre-orders on January 30, at 6 AM PST—with a ship date of February 6. The GeForce RTX 5080 will be available for purchase on January 30 at 6 AM PST, with an immediate ship date of (same day) January 30. GeForce RTX 5090 pre-orders will open on January 30 at 6 AM PST, with a ship date of February 6."

Additionally, StinceBuilt has corroborated reports of newly adjusted timeframes—the custom PC builder publicly disclosed its own dealings with the NVIDIA board partner: "we're being told by the MSI Team that the MSI RTX 5090 Variants are now being pushed back until February 6th for launch. RTX 5090 Day of Launch is going to be very rough, both on the consumer retail/ecommerce side, and to all system integrators. Stock is minimal at best. Please be patient. We've confirmed this with other shops like ourselves."



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[JoeTheDestroyer]

B&H has shown a Feb 6 date on MSI cards since atleast yesterday (when I checked).

 

[Guwapo77]

Doesn't even matter, I'll have to pick one up some time next year. This is the Microcenter in Denver @ 6pm 29 Jan. I'm certain they have been camping out since the 28th.

 

[A&P211]

Doesn't even matter, I'll have to pick one up some time next year. This is the Microcenter in Denver @ 6pm 29 Jan. I'm certain they have been camping out since the 28th.

Crazy people out in the cold.

 

[Vayra86]

Doesn't even matter, I'll have to pick one up some time next year. This is the Microcenter in Denver @ 6pm 29 Jan. I'm certain they have been camping out since the 28th.

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[keduamora]

FYI the quoted statement erroneously says January 1.

 

[Guwapo77]

Crazy people out in the cold.

Yeah, it snowed last night. Those folks are crazy as hell. I don't know the actual numbers, rumor has it that 5090s were in the single digits. So most of those folks were walking way with a 5080 at best. Days in the cold for 10-15% improvement over the 4080 Super? Insane.

Misery Loves Company
And that retail company loves the misery

Yeah...no denying that. They could have given the first person in line a sales receipt to pick it up later and do the same until they ran out of inventory.