- Nvidia RTX 5090 provide is trying very shaky in line with a UK retailer
- Overclockers has a worst-case ETA of 16 weeks for RTX 5090 inventory
- The RTX 5080 is best, however might nonetheless take as much as six weeks earlier than it’s that can be purchased once more
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 inventory state of affairs is relatively dire, to say the least, and will keep that means for longer than you’d anticipate – and the RTX 5080 is trying unhealthy inventory-wise, too, going by the prediction of 1 UK retailer.
As you likely understand if you happen to’ve been mulling a purchase order of both of the brand new Blackwell graphics playing cards, the RTX 5090 and 5080 are out of inventory in every single place (besides on public sale websites the place scalpers are flogging their ill-gotten GPUs at massively inflated asking costs, after all).
In accordance with a significant elements retailer within the UK, Overclockers (OCUK), RTX 5090 and 5080 inventory is bought out and (unsurprisingly) pre-orders aren’t being provided any longer, and so they gained’t be till the corporate has “better readability on availability and have fulfilled the pre-orders we now have taken.”
RTX 50 Collection Inventory Replace 31/01/2025Stock UpdateRTX 5090 bought out and pre-orders ceasedRTX 5080 bought out and pre-orders ceasedDue to extremely excessive demand and restricted inventory, all 50 Collection playing cards bought shortly after launch with some pre-orders taken in restricted portions.…January 31, 2025
We’re informed by OCUK (within the above publish on X) that the ETA for inventory of the RTX 5090 is three to 16 weeks, and the ETA for the RTX 5080 is 2 to 6 weeks, a bit extra palatable, however nonetheless a probably lengthy wait.
Observe that pre-orders which have been efficiently positioned with OCUK (however not but dispatched) are in a queue, and the retailer is “working with our provide chain to satisfy these inside the ETAs above, or sooner if attainable.”
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Certainly a little bit of inventory of those RTX 5000 GPUs goes to be coming in over the course of February? That should be the case (I assume), however the best way wherein the above assertion is worded makes it sound to me just like the small quantity of Blackwell graphics playing cards that will probably be arriving goes in the direction of fulfilling current pre-orders. So, there gained’t be any obtainable inventory to truly purchase on the OCUK website for fairly a while – perhaps in the direction of the lengthier finish of the ETAs offered.
The truth that the RTX 5090 is pushed out to a attainable 16 weeks goes well beyond probably the most pessimistic thoughts I was having, although. That may put us at virtually the top of Could earlier than the ‘Purchase’ button lights up once more on a number of the flagship Blackwell fashions, an eyebrow-raising prospect.
Maybe extra disappointing is the information that this retailer isn’t going to have inventory of the RTX 5080, a a lot much less area of interest proposition than the RTX 5090, for perhaps as much as six weeks. That’d put us in the midst of March earlier than the graphics card was obtainable once more (maybe solely briefly).
We shouldn’t get carried away with the timeframes from only one retailer, after all, and the worst-case situations introduced by OCUK – however this does, after all, broadly mirror all the things we’re seeing proper now. And the final accusation of a ‘paper launch’ being leveled at Nvidia, that means a launch with no actual amount of inventory behind it (within the face of main demand).
Except we do get a fast restoration for RTX 5080 inventory that runs towards OCUK’s expectations – we don’t anticipate the RTX 5090 to be again on cabinets shortly by any means, particularly on condition that its Blackwell chip (GB202) is extra worthwhile in AI graphics playing cards, not gaming merchandise – loads of hope lies with the incoming RTX 5070.
Nvidia’s RTX 5070 vanilla model makes use of a distinct GB205 chip – the RTX 5070 Ti is built with GB203 (a rumor that’s now confirmed), additionally the engine of the RTX 5080 – and so we will hope that Nvidia has extra of a depth to its GB205 manufacturing, particularly because the RTX 5070 is coming a bit later. (If rumors are proper, maybe on the finish of February – there’s even talk of a delay to March, which wouldn’t be a optimistic improvement, after all).
All in all, although, the state of affairs appears to be like distinctly rocky with Blackwell inventory for now, and AMD has an opportunity to totally capitalize on this by increase good ranges of RDNA 4 provide at retail for the launch of its RX 9070 fashions in March, to tackle Nvidia’s RTX 5070 graphics playing cards. It is a clear opportunity for Team Red in the mid-range bracket of the GPU market, though AMD has had its own missteps with the RDNA 4 launch, it should be mentioned.
These on the lookout for an Nvidia Blackwell graphics card ought to keep watch over our guides on where to buy an RTX 5090 and an RTX 5080 respectively, the place we’ll hold you updated ought to we spot inventory coming again in at huge retailers. Better of luck on the market, GPU hunters, however for now, the outlook stays critically bleak.
By way of Tom’s Hardware
