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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs Already Facing Shortages, Prices For RTX 5090 & RTX 5080 Have Doubled In Some Regions
Miscommunications Between NVIDIA & its Board Partners are Reportedly Causing Shortages in GeForce RTX 50 GPUs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5080 are reportedly short in supply, causing delays in shipments and even price increases in some regions.
Since the reveal of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs, there have been a couple of reports suggesting that it could be difficult to secure an RTX 50 GPU at the time of launch.
A few days ago, we reported that due to the extremely limited availability of higher-end RTX 50 GPUs, particularly the RTX 5090, it will be hard to buy one at MSRP. Now more reports have confirmed that this is indeed true, making the GPUs extremely scarce in the market worldwide.
Benchlife reports that there have been some miscommunications between NVIDIA and its board partners, due to which the market will see a limited stock of RTX 50 series GPUs. This includes the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, but the RTX 5070 GPUs might also be affected. As per the sources, the availability is going to improve only at the Spring Festival, but till then, there is no guarantee that customers can get one of these GPUs at MSRP.
A similar report has emerged from another source, UDN, which claims that due to an acute shortage of RTX 5090 and 5080 inventory, a significant surge in prices has been seen in some regions (specifically China) and that now the GPUs can retail at twice their MSRPs. This means the RTX 5090 could retail at up to $4000 while the RTX 5080 is at $2000. The AIBs are supposedly going to benefit a lot from this price increase, including ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI.
This seems one of the worst-case scenarios for a launch and is probably going to exist for a couple of weeks or even months before one can see these GPUs at their official MSRPs. The RTX 5090 is already at a high $1999 price tag with AIB custom editions going at even higher prices. Both the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are launching on 30th January and some of the custom editions have already been listed on retailers.
The EU GPU prices are particularly going to be higher due to the premium tax and, considering how bad the availability of these GPUs is, don't expect them to go back to normal in a few days.
As far as the NA market is concerned, UDN reports that one of the US dealers has reported that only 20 RTX 5080 units have arrived for the first month and there were no RTX 5090 at all. This scarce supply could last up until the end of Q1 or even Q2, which is quite different from the time when NVIDIA launched the RTX 40 series GPUs.
Source: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce...es-ahead-of-launch-rtx-5090-5080-price-surge/
