Friday, August 22nd 2025
Noctua Blames GPU Supply Issues for Lack of Beige and Brown RTX 5090 "At the Moment"
ASUS and Noctua recently released the pricey NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition graphics card, which comes Noctua's classic beige and brown color scheme, three noise-optimized NF-A12x25 G2 fans, and a whopping $1,500 MSRP, putting it squarely in flagship price territory. According to a report by KitGuru, however, Noctua wants to make an even more premium RTX 5090 Noctua Edition, but the current supply issues relating to the RTX 5090 are getting in the way.
In our review of the RTX 5080 Noctua OC, the Noctua OC put out the most impressive noise-normalized results we've recorded so far for the class, suggesting that Noctua might be able to tame the RTX 5090 equally well. Jakob Dellinger, Noctua PR and Product Manager, told KitGuru that even if the company would "love to do a 5090," there isn't enough supply of 5090 chips to be able to pursue a 5090 version. Likely as a result of these shortages, the prices for RTX 5090 cards have been sky-high, which has caused a drop in demand, as we previously reported. That said, the door isn't completely closed on a Noctua RTX 5090, with Dellinger specifically saying that the supply limitations make the graphics card impossible "at the moment."
Source:
KitGuru
In our review of the RTX 5080 Noctua OC, the Noctua OC put out the most impressive noise-normalized results we've recorded so far for the class, suggesting that Noctua might be able to tame the RTX 5090 equally well. Jakob Dellinger, Noctua PR and Product Manager, told KitGuru that even if the company would "love to do a 5090," there isn't enough supply of 5090 chips to be able to pursue a 5090 version. Likely as a result of these shortages, the prices for RTX 5090 cards have been sky-high, which has caused a drop in demand, as we previously reported. That said, the door isn't completely closed on a Noctua RTX 5090, with Dellinger specifically saying that the supply limitations make the graphics card impossible "at the moment."
63 Comments on Noctua Blames GPU Supply Issues for Lack of Beige and Brown RTX 5090 "At the Moment"
i assume most that owned more than a single Redux fan for longer will disagree.
ignoring i can get ~80% of the Noctua flow/pressure from Arctic at 25-50% of the Noctuas cost, while having 6-10y warranty (not even Noctua offers more than 6),
and even if i have any of them fail, i get free replacement after contacting support, usually without shipping the faulty ones or paying for anything,
so any difference in life expectancy has zero relevancy.
and thats not even counting i need things like "adapters" to throttle rpm vs Arctics just get DC/PWM to control speed, incl those listed with fixed rpm (DC/silent).
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just because i dont see it, doesnt mean i dont remember the color of what i installed, the same way i dont drive a pink car, just because i sit inside (during driving).
i spent similar amount to the rgb tax to have everything without lighting/matt black finish (even the rad), and looking at the cost for this,
i expect it to be black if its just one color, or let ppl chose, its not like they dont have black fans.
sure, but its not like that comes without cost, and anyone spending that much per fan, +99% chance the board has proper fan controller(s), same for the "retail" single boxes they come in.
i mean it doesnt need to be a brown box, but when i look at arctics box thats basically the size of the fan, maybe some additional space on top for cable/screws, and there is less foam/other stuff that gets thrown away anyway.
It’s not an old product and the fans haven’t run for that many hours.
I switched back from a Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 5 when I changed my mainboard. The Be Quiet cooler had some kind of vibration, which I didn’t look into in detail.
I'm interested in these things, so I bought the Noctua offset mount brackets for AM4 for the NH-D15. No difference according to /proc/cpuinfo while compiling LibreOffice.
Noctua has good marketing and maybe a strong brand.
P.s. Lack of what? I can buy any card anytime. They got so much stock, that they cant even sell half of it. I smell some big sales incoming at december.Indeed, they aint normal, then again Asus already sells 5070ti for the price of 5080... and 5070 for the price of 5070 ti and so on and so on. That company is dead serious and im dead serious that Asus is dead for me too.
In general yes asus is an overpriced company when it comes to gpus but in my opinion no where near as bad as noctua or nvidia. Nvidia and Noctua are ultimate rip off er's.