Wednesday, January 22nd 2025

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series Supply Woes Predicted to Last Up To Three Months

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 Series of "Blackwell" GPUs are set to launch at the tail end of this month, but market conditions are not looking favorable for day one customers. Recent news articles have highlighted alleged regional supply issues, and industry insiders believe that it will be very difficult to obtain the two higher-end models (RTX 5090 and RTX 5080). Monday's report posited that delays could result in stock not turning up until a month after Team Green's official kick-off on January 30. VideoCardz has pointed to a root cause; Team Green's alleged late issuing of finalized BIOSes—board partners were reportedly not able to prepare stock until very late in 2024.

Unfortunately, further disappointing disclosures have trickled out mid-week—PowerGPU's social media account sent out a stern warning: "the launch of the RTX 5090 will be the worst when it comes to availability. Already being told to expect it to be that way for the first three months." Benchlife piled on with more bad news—their report suggests that problems will emerge further down in Team Green's "Blackwell" product stack: "we can confirm that there are not many supplies on the market. This is mainly due to some communication issues between NVIDIA and AIC partners, as well as the Spring Festival Factors are expected to improve in February. In addition, we expect to see the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti starting to appear on the channel in mid-to-late February. As for the $549 GeForce RTX 5070, we may have to wait until early March."
Twelve days ago (!), ZOTAC's South Korean branch released a notice on tagtag.co.kr—regarding "RTX 5090 sales schedule information." This official statement only mentions a single unnamed SKU being readied for the region—possibly the SOLID, SOLID OC, or AMP Extreme INFINITY model. The message reads as follows: "we've recently received a lot of inquiries regarding the availability dates of the RTX 50 Series, so we wanted to update you on the timeline. ZOTAC Korea's RTX 5090 model is expected to be in stock in February. We would like to warn you that sales and deliveries will be difficult on January 30, the currently known date for the start of sales. The RTX 5090 is expected to be in stock and on sale in early February. Please understand that the timing may vary depending on external factors, so availability may be delayed until mid-February. The arrival schedule of the RTX 5080 model is currently being confirmed. We will inform you again as soon as possible."

Anti-scalping measures have been highlighted by France's Hardware & Co.. They report that the nation's LDLC hardware store will be re-deploying its "usual" anti-abuse system: "only one card authorized per customer account. This is valid for both the RTX 5090 and the RTX 5080 listed by the reseller. And when it does this, it is generally because a shortage is looming...it therefore seems relatively inevitable that our dear stores will not magically transform into angels of benevolence, and that if the opportunity arises for them to make a few extra bucks by increasing their prices on the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, they will not hesitate to indulge themselves. We have all been warned!"
In addition, the Hardware & Co. article points to even more extreme measures—Taiwan's AutoBuy has posted an advert that sets strict rules for potential buyers of GeForce RTX 5080 GPUs. Customers will be added to a waiting list upon the purchase of an Intel Core Ultra 200S processor, a Z890 motherboard, DDR5 memory, SSD, an (at a minimum) 850 W PSU, a PC case and a Windows OS license.
Sources: BenchLife, Tag Tag SK, Hardware & Co., VideoCardz
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55 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series Supply Woes Predicted to Last Up To Three Months

#1
_JP_
This seems to be the least relevant "Bad News" of January 2025.
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#2
Dristun
Hahaha, being forced to buy Core Ultra to get a 5090 is just cruel.
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#3
dia6olo
Long enough for me to avoid being sucked into the Nvidia marketing, personally I'm not happy with what's on offer, from Nvidia, it is nothing more than a glorified refresh as far as I see it.
That said, I do however need to upgrade because I have a new build that is currently sporting an AMD 9800X3D and an Nvidia 4060.

I was waiting for this release for the GPU but I have to say I'm dissapointed with what's on offer and it has left me in a bit of a dilema.
Having given it some thought I've decided I'll likely get something to fill the gap untill the next major release, I was looking at the 5070 Ti but I can see myself going AMD with the 9070 XT if the performance is good enough to fill a two year gap...
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#4
tpuuser256
I will buy the 9070xt since I sold my 4090 a while ago. The 9070xt will be a nice experiment while I wait for availability to improve (and news for potential blackwell titan to come).
I've been itching to play my steam games for a little too long now and I play in 4k 60 fps+, a 9070xt should fit the bill
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#5
Dirt Chip
An reviewers lunch only at it`s best.

Anyway, when you're the only one on top of the hill you can freely piss down all around.

There will be more whining and crying post/comments on the 5090 sculp price and low availability than 5090 units to sell.

wonderful days are ahead.
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#6
Steevo
"Supply woes" is a strange description for giving all your foundry booking to AI accelerators and not GPU's. But they do pay a lot more.
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#7
docnorth
That depends on us, the potential buyers. Just ignore products priced way above MSRP and most supply issues will magically be solved.:nutkick:
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#8
HOkay
Pretty glad I couldn't find a local buyer willing to pay a reasonable price for my 4090 now! Maybe it's a good time to skip a gen.
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#9
Steevo
HOkayPretty glad I couldn't find a local buyer willing to pay a reasonable price for my 4090 now! Maybe it's a good time to skip a gen.
I honestly think this is what AMD is dragging their feet for, the 5xxx series will come out with not enough to go around and everyone who bought the 4080/4090s won't sell them back when their market falls out cause the 9070XT is $620
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#10
Bwaze
”But market conditions are not looking favorable for day one customers.”

That's not market conditions, that’s purely Nvidia’s choice. To not fill up the manufacturing lines with these much cheaper products compared to server AI accelerators? To create a bit of scarcity, drive price even higher for all the rich gamers and creators and companies that plan to buy these cards for AI etc. acceleration? To show a big “F you” to gaming sector, customers that made the company and by their spending put majority of income to Nvidia’s coffers until fairly recently, for 30 years?

Who cares. Result is the same.
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#11
Rowsol
Charging 2 grand and can't keep it on the shelf. Perhaps they should've aimed higher.
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#12
mechtech
Means they are too cheap.

Sell the 5090 for $4k and the rest tiered down from that. ;)
HOkayPretty glad I couldn't find a local buyer willing to pay a reasonable price for my 4090 now! Maybe it's a good time to skip a gen.
It's always a good time to skip about 4 gens...............
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#13
R0H1T
JHH to "gamers" :D

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#14
erocker
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There's no woes or shortages. This is the only competitor in town sandbagging their product for exclusivity.
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#15
umeng2002
It's all red velvet rope. TSMC, AIBs, and nVidia have no real issues meeting demand.
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#16
SRS
$2000 5090. Like the 'hen's teeth' BestBuy 4090.

The same pattern as before. Expected.
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#17
Hereticbar
DristunHahaha, being forced to buy Core Ultra to get a 5090 is just cruel.
True, I rather pay scalpers' price or get poked in the eyes and kicked in the balls.
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#18
Neo_Morpheus
When did i heard such lies before?

Oh yes, when they pretended to care for their gaming customers meanwhile they were selling the same “scarce” gpus by the pallets directly to the miners.

Also, this seems adequate for the occasion:

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#19
randomTPUreader
Not at all surprised that Nvidia would have supply issues new models of consumer level products. The "gaming" GPU market made up a small slice of Nvidia's revenue in the last quarter. You know the enterprise customers fueled by AI pandemonium are going to get their GPUs first and foremost!

The 50 series product launches are being done mostly to keep the tech press buzzing about Nvidia, especially since AMD and Intel don't have anything that can compete with the high end 50 series cards. All the good tech press helps to keep Nvidia in the minds of the enterprise customers which makes it easier for Nvidia to convince them to keep buying GPUs for AI at inflated prices.
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#20
jigar2speed
Nvidia does this every time to inflate pricing, not falling for this, this time around. I will wait for 1 year for everything to calm down.
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#21
Hecate91
It isn't surprising for Nvidia to claim having "supply issues" however it isn't a supply issue at all when most of those cards are likely going to companies for AI, or are limiting consumer dies to sell more AI server hardware. Nvidia could easily allocate more manufacturing towards gaming chips, but its easier to have artificial scarcity to keep prices high.
Also not surprising to see leaks of the AIB 5090 cards being not even close to the $1999 MSRP.
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#22
arbiter
Not really a first i remember gtx1000 series were pain to get for least 2-3 months. Took me a month to get a gtx1080 and i got lucky loading up site that restocked but i didn't get email of restock for like 3-4 hours after.
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#23
Visible Noise
Hecate91It isn't surprising for Nvidia to claim having "supply issues" however it isn't a supply issue at all when most of those cards are likely going to companies for AI, or are limiting consumer dies to sell more AI server hardware. Nvidia could easily allocate more manufacturing towards gaming chips, but its easier to have artificial scarcity to keep prices high.
Also not surprising to see leaks of the AIB 5090 cards being not even close to the $1999 MSRP.
That’s literally the definition of a supply issue, lol.
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#24
Hecate91
Visible NoiseThat’s literally the definition of a supply issue, lol.
No it isn't. As @Bwaze mentioned, it's Nvidia's choice to not keep up with the demand.
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#25
Visible Noise
Hecate91No it isn't. As @Bwaze mentioned, it's Nvidia's choice to not keep up with the demand.
Do you have any idea what a supply chain is? Or do you think TSMC is the Amazon of chip making and can get your order to you in two days :roll:

No company in Nvidia’s position is going to undership - that’s what AMD does after they channel stuff. Nvidia is selling every chip they can get their hands on - about three BILLION dollars worth a week. You are clearly ignorant of what kind of scale Nvidia operates at. They are literarily buying all the GDDR7 and HBM3e memory being produced. Think about that for a moment. There’s entire memory fabs sold out for over a year just supplying Nvidia’s needs.

JFC, they are buying packaging from Intel of all companies.

Are you getting a clue yet?


Anyway I‘m sure you can provide citations for your position right? Right??
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