The launch of the RTX 5090 Founders Edition saw graphics cards selling out almost instantly across major retailers in the US and UK. Despite efforts by the PC Gamer team to snag a card, stock vanished within minutes, highlighting the ongoing GPU shortage.
RTX 5090 Founders Edition across the US and UK today, along with the rest of the PC Gamer team, and there we were at 6 am PT, 2 pm UK time, clicking on links and trying to see if we could snaffle new graphics cards into our online baskets as soon as the launch time was upon us.
Even the shockingly over-priced versions, with RTX 5080s costing the same as the RTX 5090 MSRP, had gone out of stock. Though I hope that's just some sort of listing error and someone hasn't just paid $2,000 for something that is only marginally faster than an So, is this a success? I guess from the point of view of everyone getting shot of all their stock, it will be seen as a win by both Nvidia and the retailers. How happy anyone who actually wanted a new RTX Blackwell GPU is right now, well, that might be a different matter.. Neither paints a particularly rosy picture of digital shelves packed with new cards.
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