News RTX 50-series paper launch saw RTX 5090, RTX 5080 flew off the shelves — Micro Center, Best Buy, and Newegg are all out of stock

[Admin]

RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 inventory has run dry at most major US retailers.

RTX 50-series paper launch saw RTX 5090, RTX 5080 flew off the shelves — Micro Center, Best Buy, and Newegg are all out of stock : Read more

 

[COLGeek]

This was fully projected and expected. Has become the norm. Not really a surprise in any way.

 

[magbarn]

Nvidia can kill scalping overnight by allowing pre-orders like Tesla/Apple does. Would rather wait a few months with guaranteed stock, than relying on stock alerts and hoping we score. This sold out just as fast and bad as the Ampere launches. Nvidia likely has allocated majority of their TSMC production to Ai.

 

[USAFRet]

Nvidia can kill scalping overnight by allowing pre-orders like Tesla/Apple does. Would rather wait a few months with guaranteed stock, than relying on stock alerts and hoping we score. This sold out just as fast and bad as the Ampere launches. Nvidia likely has allocated majority of their TSMC production to Ai.

The 'pre-orders' would be sold out just as quickly.
And while YOU may be OK with waiting....some of the fools out there are not.
GHIN syndrome.

 

[sstanic]

But why is there a lack of 4nm capacity, if Nvidia makes their AI dies in a 3nm factory? Shouldn't 4nm be more than available by now, if all the main players are on 3nm? Isn't that precisely why Nvidia is making these GPUs on 4nm, so that they don't eat into their own 3nm wafers? Is it GDDR7 memory that's behind schedule, or packaging capacity or what?

 

[magbarn]

But why is there a lack of 4nm capacity, if Nvidia makes their AI dies in a 3nm factory? Shouldn't 4nm be more than available by now, if all the main players are on 3nm? Isn't that precisely why Nvidia is making these GPUs on 4nm, so that they don't eat into their own 3nm wafers? Is it GDDR7 memory that's behind schedule, or packaging capacity or what?

Hopefully TSMC AZ can at least start producing GPUs soon. That should help the situation.

 

[Giroro]

It's easy to sell out of a product when Nvidia doesn't want to waste manufacturing capacity by making them in the first place.

Why Nvidia even bothered "launching" a 50xx series, I'm still not sure. Maybe they want a fallback in the chamber if the AI bubble inevitably pops next year, instead of in a couple years.

 

[Gaidax]

Why Nvidia even bothered "launching" a 50xx series, I'm still not sure. Maybe they want a fallback in the chamber if the AI bubble inevitably pops next year, instead of in a couple years.

They have like 80% of the consumer PC discreet GPU market in their pocket and they have the technological edge with almost no competition at high end.

They are not going to give it up, especially because they can sell products from an older node for wads of cash. Consumer Blackwell is using an older process, while their professional Blackwell is actually using newer process, so they don't directly compete for resources to begin with.

Besides it's also another product line for them for the rainy day.

 

[Eximo]

5090 is the same die area as 4 AD106 chips (4060 Ti, and 4070 Mobile)

Supposedly ceased production on everything but the AD107 die in favor of Blackwell. So their fall back plan would seem to be refreshes of the whole line up.

 

[LookHereBub]

Just to confirm the paper launch status, confirmed with Best Buy that sales would begin at 6AM PT, and sure enough it did. I played the refresh game for a couple minutes before that, and at just after 6 the "add to cart" button appeared. Literally, hit refresh, button, push button, at most a 1-2 second gap. Then the "you are in line" page comes up with a circle spinning. 30 seconds later, it says "something happened" and refreshed to the product page. "Sold Out" button now showing. All told, a max of 35 second elapsed from refresh to <Mod Edit>. No one but bots got anything out of Best Buy, and their stock could not have been more than double digits nation wide. Micro Center didn't have more than that either. Really pathetic.

 

[USAFRet]

No one but bots got anything...

And it has been that way for several cycles and releases.
Not just BB.

 

[Flayed]

Just to confirm the paper launch status, confirmed with Best Buy that sales would begin at 6AM PT, and sure enough it did. I played the refresh game for a couple minutes before that, and at just after 6 the "add to cart" button appeared. Literally, hit refresh, button, push button, at most a 1-2 second gap. Then the "you are in line" page comes up with a circle spinning. 30 seconds later, it says "something happened" and refreshed to the product page. "Sold Out" button now showing. All told, a max of 35 second elapsed from refresh to <Mod Edit>. No one but bots got anything out of Best Buy, and their stock could not have been more than double digits nation wide. Micro Center didn't have more than that either. Really pathetic.

Oh well look on the bright side you saved yourself a pile of cash.

 

[joartrak]

This has been a trend for several years now, and you would at least think they would figure out ways to have a much friendlier consumer launch. It's amazingly obvious they do not care about getting the product to gamers, which is just really poor customer service. That is just speaking to them as a business and not even how "meh" this card is compared to previous cards. "Don't be sorry, be better" is a phrase that comes to mind.

Rant over.

 

[acadia11]

Wafers usually come in 300mm and 200mm generally the wafer has nothing to do with process node mostly which creates the die.

 

[Darcey]

Nvidia releasing 5090 and 5080 series cards with next to no stock was a poor decision​

The nvidia website went straight from "coming soon" to "out of stock". It was supposed to become available at 2pm, it was still coming soon till 2:30pm ish when it just went straight to out of stock, and I had a bot checking it every 5 seconds.

OCUK
Only had 10 cards.

Scan
Was the same, only the MSI ventus was available for about 3.142 seconds before they removed the buy button on the website.

Nvidia shouldn't have set this release date with so little FE cards in their stock and after market cards in resellers warehouses.

I think I will see how things are in December, no rush, or wait for the 6090, I was hoping for 64gb of ram anyway for AI workloads, 32 is nowhere near enough. Flux dev fp16 and fp16 vae uses more than 24gb, the 5090 will just be enough, the fp8 and fp4 features are no good for detailed image processing.

NEVER BUY FROM SCALPERS

 

[aberkae]

Just to confirm the paper launch status, confirmed with Best Buy that sales would begin at 6AM PT, and sure enough it did. I played the refresh game for a couple minutes before that, and at just after 6 the "add to cart" button appeared. Literally, hit refresh, button, push button, at most a 1-2 second gap. Then the "you are in line" page comes up with a circle spinning. 30 seconds later, it says "something happened" and refreshed to the product page. "Sold Out" button now showing. All told, a max of 35 second elapsed from refresh to <Mod Edit>. No one but bots got anything out of Best Buy, and their stock could not have been more than double digits nation wide. Micro Center didn't have more than that either. Really pathetic.

The Bestbuy app had me on line for one for 10 hours before the canceled the order. 🤦‍♂️