• Nvidia RTX 5090 provide is trying very shaky in response to a UK retailer
• Overclockers has a worst-case ETA of 16 weeks for RTX 5090 inventory
• The RTX 5080 is best, however may nonetheless take as much as six weeks earlier than it’s available for purchase once more

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 inventory state of affairs is quite dire, to say the least, and will keep that approach for longer than you’d count on – and the RTX 5080 is trying unhealthy inventory-wise, too, going by the prediction of 1 UK retailer.

As you probably understand when you’ve been mulling a purchase order of both of the brand new Blackwell graphics playing cards, the RTX 5090 and 5080 are out of inventory in every single place (besides on public sale websites the place scalpers are flogging their ill-gotten GPUs at massively inflated asking costs, in fact).

In accordance with a significant elements retailer within the UK, Overclockers (OCUK), RTX 5090 and 5080 inventory is bought out and (unsurprisingly) pre-orders aren’t being supplied any longer, they usually received’t be till the corporate has “higher readability on availability and have fulfilled the pre-orders we’ve got taken.”

We’re informed by OCUK (within the above publish on X) that the ETA for inventory of the RTX 5090 is three to 16 weeks, and the ETA for the RTX 5080 is 2 to 6 weeks, a bit extra palatable, however nonetheless a doubtlessly lengthy wait.

Word that pre-orders which were efficiently positioned with OCUK (however not but dispatched) are in a queue, and the retailer is “working with our provide chain to satisfy these inside the ETAs above, or sooner if attainable.”

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Certainly a little bit of inventory of those RTX 5000 GPUs goes to be coming in over the course of February? That have to be the case (I assume), however the way in which wherein the above assertion is worded makes it sound to me just like the small quantity of Blackwell graphics playing cards that will likely be arriving goes in direction of fulfilling present pre-orders. So, there received’t be any out there inventory to really purchase on the OCUK website for fairly a while – perhaps in direction of the lengthier finish of the ETAs supplied.

The truth that the RTX 5090 is pushed out to a attainable 16 weeks goes well beyond probably the most pessimistic ideas I used to be having, although. That will put us at nearly the tip of Could earlier than the ‘Purchase’ button lights up once more on a few of the flagship Blackwell fashions, an eyebrow-raising prospect.

Maybe extra disappointing is the information that this retailer isn’t going to have inventory of the RTX 5080, a a lot much less area of interest proposition than the RTX 5090, for perhaps as much as six weeks. That’d put us in the midst of March earlier than the graphics card was out there once more (maybe solely briefly).

We shouldn’t get carried away with the timeframes from only one retailer, in fact, and the worst-case eventualities introduced by OCUK – however this does, in fact, broadly mirror the whole lot we’re seeing proper now. And the overall accusation of a ‘paper launch’ being leveled at Nvidia, which means a launch with no actual amount of inventory behind it (within the face of main demand).

Until we do get a fast restoration for RTX 5080 inventory that runs towards OCUK’s expectations – we don’t count on the RTX 5090 to be again on cabinets rapidly by any means, particularly provided that its Blackwell chip (GB202) is extra worthwhile in AI graphics playing cards, not gaming merchandise – lots of hope lies with the incoming RTX 5070.

Nvidia’s RTX 5070 vanilla model makes use of a unique GB205 chip – the RTX 5070 Ti is constructed with GB203 (a rumor that’s now confirmed), additionally the engine of the RTX 5080 – and so we will hope that Nvidia has extra of a depth to its GB205 manufacturing, particularly because the RTX 5070 is coming a bit later. (If rumors are proper, maybe on the finish of February – there’s even discuss of a delay to March, which wouldn’t be a optimistic growth, in fact).

All in all, although, the state of affairs seems distinctly rocky with Blackwell inventory for now, and AMD has an opportunity to totally capitalize on this by build up good ranges of RDNA 4 provide at retail for the launch of its RX 9070 fashions in March, to tackle Nvidia’s RTX 5070 graphics playing cards. This can be a clear alternative for Crew Purple within the mid-range bracket of the GPU market, though AMD has had its personal missteps with the RDNA 4 launch, it have to be stated.

These in search of an Nvidia Blackwell graphics card ought to control our guides on the place to purchase an RTX 5090 and an RTX 5080 respectively, the place we’ll maintain you updated ought to we spot inventory coming again in at large retailers. Better of luck on the market, GPU hunters, however for now, the outlook stays critically bleak.

By way of Tom’s {Hardware}

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