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NVIDIA made several mistakes during the announcement of the RTX 50 series. Board partners were unable to prepare stock before the end of the year because the company failed to provide the final BIOS on time. Now, it seems the supply situation is not improving, with the RTX 5080/5090 launch on January 30 described as “the worst in terms of availability.”

This sentiment is being echoed by multiple sources, including PowerGPU, a gaming system integrator. They have stated that gamers should be prepared for RTX 50 shortages to potentially last for up to three months.

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representative for ZOTAC Korea has also confirmed a delay in the availability of RTX 5090 and 5080 cards. The cards are now expected to arrive in mid-February. Deliveries for the originally planned January 30 launch date are not possible. The representative claims the delay is due to external factors, indicating that the retailer has no control over improving the situation.

This is TakTak Mall from Zotac Korea.
We have received many inquiries regarding the sales schedule of the RTX 50 series and would like to provide an update.
The RTX 5090 model from Zotac Korea is expected to arrive in February.
Please note that sales and delivery will not be possible on January 30th, the initially mentioned date.
The RTX 5090 is scheduled to be available for sale in early February. However, due to external factors, the arrival date may be delayed until mid-February. We kindly ask for your understanding in this matter.
As for the RTX 5080 model, we are still confirming the arrival schedule. Once the schedule is finalized, we will provide another update.
We sincerely thank all our customers for their interest and inquiries regarding Zotac Korea and TakTak Mall.

Benchlife, a source typically well-informed within board partner circles, claims that the looming shortages may be linked to NVIDIA’s communication with AICs (Add-In Card partners). These companies are now entering the Spring Festival season in China and Taiwan, resulting in many sales and distribution activities being delayed until February.

The report suggests that NVIDIA could have mitigated this issue by announcing the launch after the Spring Festival, avoiding the overlap with the holiday period.

For NVIDIA, we will see GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 go on sale on January 30, but we can confirm that there are not many supplies on the market. This is mainly due to some communication issues between NVIDIA and AIC partners, as well as the Spring Festival Factors are expected to improve in February. In addition, we expect to see the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti starting to appear on the channel in mid-to-late February.
— Benchlife

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[Hudo]

Scalpers gonna charge >$5000 for this shit.

 

[Fbh]

Scalpers:

 

[StereoVsn]

Well, maybe AMD isn’t crazy in pushing the launch to March after all, lol.

This shit is going to be worse than trying to get a 3080 at launch, lol.

 

[Three]

"This is mainly due to some communication issues between NVIDIA and AIC partners"

Lol, what?
Cue the conspiracy theorists that "they're pushing you to Geforce Now and not owning anything".

 

[OverHeat]

lol at the one who sold there 4090 before getting your hand on a 5090

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

perfect gen to skip anyway, miniscule rasta performance increases and prices will jump up regardless (at least for the top card), keeping the 4090 in the rig. If I build a new small pc, I'll get AMD GPU this time.

 

[GHG]

Honestly if you have a 40 series card then you should be good to wait until everything normalises.

As for everyone else - RIP.

 

[Roman Empire]

My 4080 is doing just fine. I can wait, at least, more 2 years.

 

[StereoVsn]

perfect gen to skip anyway, miniscule rasta performance increases and prices will jump up regardless (at least for the top card), keeping the 4090 in the rig. If I build a new small pc, I'll get AMD GPU this time.

This is assuming you have a 4000 series card. If you are coming from 3000 series or AMD equivalent, this is a pretty solid update.

 

[Bojji]

Honestly if you have a 40 series card then you should be good to wait until everything normalises.

As for everyone else - RIP.

I remember people that sold 2080ti's for cheap before 3080/90 launch. Most of them were fucked for months without chance to get any decent gpu...

Situation was far worse with 3xxx series (covid, crypto etc.) but with limited supply (rumored) it won't be easy to get new GPU ~MSRP.

 

[GHG]

I remember people that sold 2080ti's for cheap before 3080/90 launch. Most of them were fucked for months without chance to get any decent gpu...

Situation was far worse with 3xxx series (covid, crypto etc.) but with limited supply (rumored) it won't be easy to get new GPU ~MSRP.

Yep, and if anything it will keep the value of the 4000 series artificially high while this shakes out.

So waiting until you can secure a new card and then selling your old one is the best play here.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

what time should I be refreshing the nvidia page for the 5090?

 

[MikeM]

This is assuming you have a 4000 series card. If you are coming from 3000 series or AMD equivalent, this is a pretty solid update.

Agreed. Im looking at my 7900xt right now and am pretty happy with it. I may try to score a FE 5080 for science though

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Honestly if you have a 40 series card then you should be good to wait until everything normalises.

As for everyone else - RIP.

Yeah honestly the biggest surprise of the reveal was the lack of a killer app. Especially if you have a 4080 or 4090, there’s really nothing on the horizon that is going to massively benefit from upgrading to 5000 series.

I’ll still probably buy one if I get the opportunity just so I can sell my 4090 for the best possible price.

 

[balls of snow]

Gonna get my pc after March anyways. The bumrush to be the first is only worth it for consoles.

 

[FingerBang]

lol at the one who sold there 4090 before getting your hand on a 5090

Plenty of people doing that every time, and every time they cry they're left with a gaming PC without a GPU.

But people who sold their 4090s are the dumbest of the bunch, since these cards are:

1) Impossible to find at MSRP or close
2) Still more powerful than anything below the 5090

With the 5090 being impossible to find, their actual price (scalpers) will be much higher. How in hell do people think the 4090 will depreciate?

 

[Lucifers Beard]

That's fine. Those thinking of buying a 5090 probably aren't desperate for the upgrade anyway.

My 3080 is doing just fine and this will force me out of impulse buying which does me a favour. Good opportunity to watch some benchmark videos of the cards too.

 

[Magic Carpet]

If anyone is in a tough spot without a GPU I’ve got a nice RTX 4070 I can sell to hold you over.

 

[tamago84]

Perfect timing with ff7 pc tomorrow!

 

[Topher]

So this stock shortage just applies to the 5090?

 

[MikeM]

Yeah honestly the biggest surprise of the reveal was the lack of a killer app. Especially if you have a 4080 or 4090, there’s really nothing on the horizon that is going to massively benefit from upgrading to 5000 series.

I’ll still probably buy one if I get the opportunity just so I can sell my 4090 for the best possible price.

Im not sold on frame gen due to latency, but the leaps in RT seem significant from leaks. Pure raster is meh.

 

[Kilau]

what time should I be refreshing the nvidia page for the 5090?

If you didn’t start two weeks ago, it’s already too late.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

If you didn’t start two weeks ago, it’s already too late.

 

[StereoVsn]

So this stock shortage just applies to the 5090?

5080 as well I would think since it launches at same time. And may affect 5070Ti/5070 depending on logistics.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Im not sold on frame gen due to latency, but the leaps in RT seem significant from leaks. Pure raster is meh.

I’m not saying that it won’t be a leap. Just that I don’t see any games that are going to massively benefit from the upgrade the way e.g. Cyberpunk w/path tracing did from the 4090.

4090 can pretty much max out anything at 4K >60 FPS. I don’t see any games in the near future with some bonkers graphical settings that are going to require DLSS4 + multi frame gen + extra ray tracing power to make it playable.

 

[Smiggs]

I wonder if this will affect FE stock as well? Or is Nvidia being a douche to their AIB partners by flooding the market with FE while their partners are playing catch up?

 

[diffusionx]

I wonder if this will affect FE stock as well? Or is Nvidia being a douche to their AIB partners by flooding the market with FE while their partners are playing catch up?

yes, it's going to affect FE

 

[MikeM]

I’m not saying that it won’t be a leap. Just that I don’t see any games that are going to massively benefit from the upgrade the way e.g. Cyberpunk w/path tracing did from the 4090.

4090 can pretty much max out anything at 4K >60 FPS. I don’t see any games in the near future with some bonkers graphical settings that are going to require DLSS4 + multi frame gen + extra ray tracing power to make it playable.

Agreed. I don’t see many games still where RT is an absolute requirement. Hell, we see barely any games requiring DX12 features sets as a base as a whole.

I fully admit that my 7900xt has been plenty for 4k in almost all games. Where its not, tweak a couple settings and sprinkle a bit of upscaling and i’m easily in the 100fps range.

 

[EN250]

Honestly if you have a 40 series card then you should be good to wait until everything normalises.

As for everyone else - RIP.

FOMO and scalpers will make this thing sell for thousands and there won't be anything getting normalized after a while I'm afraid

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

This is assuming you have a 4000 series card. If you are coming from 3000 series or AMD equivalent, this is a pretty solid update.

4090 on my desktop, 4080 mobile on a laptop... lossless scaling... we good

let the next gen come

 

[Thief1987]

Scalpers gonna charge >$5000 for this shit.

Hope that every jacket's bootlicker will pay as much

 

[winjer]

So the rumours for low availability were true.
I bet most wafers that Nvidia has, are being sent for AI chips, not for gaming GPUs.

 

[rm082e]

Bring back the New Egg Shuffle!

 

[Boss Mog]

It was supposed to be the biggest gains and the most availability and it's all the opposite. Gamers need to face facts, fab slots are limited and nVidia would rather make chips for it's AI boards than for video cards because of much higher profit margins. Going forward, gamers are just an after-thought to them.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

I'm selling my 4090 today, I'm more than prepared to not have a graphics card of this caliber anyways. I have a backup. I'm taking a trip to one of the micro centers that several hours away so I'm doing my best research to make sure that there will be a chance I can score one. I know they have a limit and a voucher system so I hope it works out. Otherwise I'm going to be waiting and I'm okay with that but I'm definitely getting it the very minimum the founders edition.

 

[Hyet]

That's fine. Those thinking of buying a 5090 probably aren't desperate for the upgrade anyway.

My 3080 is doing just fine and this will force me out of impulse buying which does me a favour. Good opportunity to watch some benchmark videos of the cards too.

Exactly my case too.

I wonder how demand is going to be on these compared to other nvidia launches. Is there any data on this?

 

[Dorago]

They should charge more money for online only orders then.

Scammers will always have the upper hand when there's no accountability.

Just have it so it has to be shipped to Walmart or Best Buy and you have to pick it up.

 

[RickSanchez]

Honestly if you have a 40 series card then you should be good to wait until

the year 2030

I'm gonna try to make my 4090 last till 2030, another 6 years to go

 

[dreamstation]

How does this happen though? Surely they would have known quite some time ago they were planning to release the new series at this time. Why didn't they ramp up production back then? Shortages like this always feel artificially created.

 

[rubik's dude]

My current setup is a laptop with a 3080m. Before that was a 980m. I'll stick with my current setup until at least 6xxx or 7xxx lmao.

 

[SweetTooth]

what time should I be refreshing the nvidia page for the 5090?

You evil...you are trying to profit from the poorest

 

[captainpat]

This is honestly the least rushed I've felt to get to upgrade my gpu.

 

[Diogodx]

Just another paperlauch. No surprise.

 

[mitch1971]

Scalpers gonna charge >$5000 for this shit.

Wouldn't surprise me if Nvidia have set up their own scalpers.

 

[manfestival]

My 4090 is suffering. I need that 5090

 

[Spukc]

My current setup is a laptop with a 3080m. Before that was a 980m. I'll stick with my current setup until at least 6xxx or 7xxx lmao.

Thinking a laptop 3xxx is anything like a desktop 3xxx lmao.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

Very happy with my decision to keep my 4090 and skip this gen.

 

[rubik's dude]

Thinking a laptop 3xxx is anything like a desktop 3xxx lmao.

I didn't say that it was lmao

 

[marjo]

While I don't doubt supply is going to be shit, I'm not convinced demand is going to be particularly high for these cards. At least once all the 'enthusiasts' manage to get one.