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Are you looking to get your hands on the RTX 5090 on NVIDIA or RTX 5080? Too bad you are too late. Both new RTX 50-series graphic processors “Blackwell” were sold earlier today and many went to lightning.
It wasn’t completely unexpected, like Nvidia had been warned that stocks for the new generation of graphics cards would be lowWith the MSI manufacturer, it even slows down the start of the RTX 5090 to February 6. The lines grew long in the US distributor Micro Center, where encouraging buyers camp For a chance in stabbing one.
With low -stock stock levels, scalpers have outstripped EBAY lists for the product sold lists of reaching RTX 5090 Over $ 6,000An increase of 200% compared to $ 1.999 MSRP from $ 5090. Third country manufacturers also note MSRP prices of RTX 5090, with the ASUS ROG Astral reaching $ 2799, a 40% increase in the requested price. This is not uncommon for higher-end cards, but an increase of $ 800 is a whole PS5 Pro.
Worldwide, the NVIDIA MSRP edition, which has an advanced PCB split, have been in search, and at different times, different regions are restored. But while demand remains high and stock levels remain low, they are almost impossible to buy, even for the most common fans.
One user commented on NVIDIA Forum: “I updated every second from 14:00 and never once became available for purchase !!!” Other Reddit users are already publishAnother start, another failure“After not able to buy one of the new graphics cards. “Starting paper is true,” says one Redditor, voining the mood around the start of the RTX 30-Series, which was also shortages in 2020.
But why is there so little RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards in circulation? It was in October reported That the designs of NVIDIA -based black -based processors are insufficient. Executive Director Jenson Huang said: “We had a drawback in Blackwell design, it was functional, but the disadvantage of the design caused the yield to be low.” Correcting this disadvantage in the chips of the data center may have influenced the production of the RTX 5090 CPU 5090 processor and RTX 5080.
Nvidia has only so much time booked in its foundry chip, TSMC. The NVIDIA Blackwell GeForce cards are made using the same TSMC 4N knot, of the same architecture as the affected boards. If the yields are low, then it will have to spend more time producing work chips. This low yield in its original B100 and B200 boards could have effect on other products. As Nvidia hastened to fix the problem and make the yields higher toin Turn, they make their customers for the data center, consumer products may have been difficult to affected.
After all, the Chip of the Blackwell B200 and the RTX 50s share the same common production process. NVIDIA revenue from customers of the Data Center reached the staggering $ 30.8 billion through Q3 2025S For comparison, game revenue was only $ 3.3 billion.
However, the situation with NVIDIA’s consumer graphics cards is likely to be improved in the future. For now, NVIDIA may just have to face a consumer reaction from gamers who can’t buy what we called “the fastest consumer market graphics card” in our RTX 5090 reviewS
Sayem is a freezer -based freezer covering Tech & Hardware. You can contact him at @say.zone on Bluesky.
