NVIDIA’s new RTX 5080 and 5090 graphics cards are sold out within minutes

After less than an hour after they are sold last week, the navy nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 And 5090 graphics cards have disappeared from physical and online retailers in the US, inventory has dried up so quickly that it seems that Nvidia may not have had much to sell in the first place that prompted people to start to call it “startup on paper. “

Before launch last week, the GeForce Community Head of Nvidia Tim Adams Tim Tim Tim warn all that the new graphics processors can be difficult to find: “We expect a significant search for the GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 and we believe that stocks can happen.”

And they were absolutely, as both graphics cards from the 50 series were sold on Amazon, Micro Center, Best Buy and NEWEGG as soon as they went live. NewEG said “had a huge answer” and sold its inventory “within minutes” according to news message Last Friday.

PC hardware YouTuber Gamers Nexus He reported that one of the largest system integrators in the US or companies that make up pre-constructed computers has one RTX 5090 on the day of launch and received only a “small shipment” of them later the same day. Another company had 20 cards, which it sold through pre -built three minutes.

Banner at the top of Micro Center website He says he “works hard to recover more NVIDIA RTX 50-series graphic processors” and check regularly. But it may take some time before they are available again. The United Kingdom of Retail Overclockers Britain He does not expect the RTX 5080 again for two to six weeks, and the RTX 5090 for three to 16 weeks. A Reddit user Who managed to get the RTX 5090 at Best Buy is not expected to receive it until February 21, suggesting that US merchants are in the same boat.

Whether NVIDIA has cards for sale in the first place remains unclear, but the demand is obviously large for the 50 series. According to Results of steam hardware survey For January 2025, most of its users play games on RTX 3060S, GPU two generations in the back. Contemporary games like Dragon Age: Voily still Recommend older graphic processorsHowever, upcoming games like Called and Monster Hunter: Wilds They begin to recommend 40-serv-cards to use Ray tracking. For all the people who felt supply shortage And pricing inflation in the first years of Covid, it would be a great time to upgrade your graphics card … if there are left to buy.