New experiences have indicated that the soon-to-be-released Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 might be fairly exhausting to search out at launch. The flagship and the subsequent step-down playing cards seem to have been delivered at a fraction of the amount of earlier generations.
The RTX 5090 and 5080 are Nvidia’s now present technology powerhouses. Introduced at CES 2025, these playing cards are simply touchdown in reviewers’ palms – together with ours – however with regards to shopping for them, these GPUs could be lacking from shops.
Chatting with Moore’s Legislation is Useless (MLiD), a YouTube channel devoted to {hardware} information, 4 sources detailed the scenario surrounding the 2 RTX 50-series playing cards. The primary supply claimed that they’ve solely acquired “~20 RTX 5080s for the primary month of gross sales”, whereas getting “zero 5090s”.
The opposite three sources corroborate this, with their second supply stating that they’ve received “extra 5080s, however it’s a fraction of what we acquired for the 4080” two years in the past. One other supply, an EU producer (AIB), says that the 5090 might be “very uncommon” however doesn’t anticipate to see the 5080 as too exhausting to get. They describe the inventory as an “OK provide.”
![moore's law is dead screenshot saying: RTX 5090 & 5080 Supply Leak (Mid-January 2025): Moore Source 1: We [NA Distributor] will get ~20 RTX 5080s for the first month of sales, and ZERQ 5090s. For comparison, we got a couple hundred RTX 4080s in 2022. Oh, and we don't expect to get any 5090 supply until late Q1 or Q2. Source 2. We (AIB wil have aroud the same amount of RTX 5090s for launch as we had RTX 30902 Meanwhile, we will have more 5080s, but it's a fraction of what we received for the 4080 launch two years ago. So, at least from AlBs (I don't know anything about FE supply), I'd roore's Law Is D ¿ YouTube MOS estimate there may be similar or even less RTX 5090 supply than there was 3090, and then there should be a third to half as many RTX 5080s as there were 4080s at launch as well. Source 3: Obviously | [Nvidia] am not exposed to discussions about supply, but what I can say is that we were just warned that there won't be many RTX 5090 FEs available from the Employee Store at launch. And to be clear - it was very easy for an Nvidia Employee to get an RTX 4090 FE when it launched in 2022 from that same internal store. Source 4: All I can say is that over here [EU AIB] the RTX 5090 looks like it will be very rare, but the RTX 5080 seems to have ok supply for at least the initial launch.](https://www.pcgamesn.com/wp-content/sites/pcgamesn/2025/01/mlid-rtx-5090-stock.jpg "mlid-rtx-5090-stock")
Even Nvidia workers will wrestle to get their palms on the newest GPU. MLiD’s Nvidia insider claims that the RTX 5090 FE, the “inventory” or “reference” card for the 5090 made by the corporate itself, might be restricted in inventory. “We have been warned that there gained’t be many RTX 5090 FEs out there from the Worker Retailer at launch.” They add that the 4090 FE was fairly simple to get three years in the past.
In the meantime, Zotac doesn’t expect to ship its 5090 GPUs till February. Nonetheless, exterior components could possibly be inflicting the potential inventory points.
In accordance with Benchlife, and translated by common GPU fanatic Harukaze5719 on X, the RTX 5000 sequence playing cards are in restricted provide. That is being attributed to the upcoming Lunar 12 months pageant and “communication points between Nvidia and [other manufacturers].”
With this stated, Benchlife expects the extra inexpensive Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti to start delivery in “mid-to-late February.” Nonetheless, these hoping to improve their PC to the much more inexpensive RTX 5070, would possibly want to attend somewhat longer, as based on Benchlife these gained’t hit the market till “early March.”