Nvidia’s RTX 5000 collection launch with the 5090 and the 5080 has been fairly unhealthy. The GPUs had been massively overhyped by the corporate on the CES 2025 presentation with ridiculous claims just like the $549 RTX 5070 being equal to the outgoing flagship, the 4090. As anticipated that didn’t pan out as even the RTX 5080 couldn’t match the 4090 and barely managed to beat the 4080 SUPER.

In the meantime, each the brand new SKUs, particularly the RTX 5090, have been extraordinarily restricted in inventory. Main retailer Overclockers UK confirmed this on its official X deal with and added that restocking might take as much as 16 weeks for the RTX 5090 and as much as six weeks for the 5080. It acknowledged:

RTX 50 Sequence Inventory Replace 31/01/2025

Inventory Replace

• RTX 5090 bought out and pre-orders ceased
• RTX 5080 bought out and pre-orders ceased

On account of extremely excessive demand and restricted inventory, all 50 Sequence playing cards bought shortly after launch with some pre-orders taken in restricted portions. Inventory ETAs are as follows:

• RTX 5090 ETA: 3-16 Weeks
• RTX 5080 ETA: 2-6 Weeks

When you’ve got not obtained a dispatch affirmation e-mail, your order is now in a pre-order queue. We’re working with our provide chain to fulfil these throughout the ETAs above, or sooner if doable. As all the time, anybody who doesn’t want to wait is welcome to cancel for a full refund. Future Availability We now have no plans to take pre-orders for any 50 Sequence playing cards till we have now larger readability on availability and have fulfilled the pre-orders we have now taken. For up-to-date data, please join with inventory notification emails of the product you have an interest in through the product web page, in addition to regulate our Discord server and boards to be the primary to listen to when extra inventory lands.

And for many who managed to select up the playing cards, you might not be out of your troubles as customers on-line are reporting numerous points like Home windows failing to acknowledge the GPU, playing cards bricking, and PCIe 5.0 compatibility issues.

Overclocking guru and YouTuber der8auer EN (YouTube hyperlink) already mentioned the PCIe 5.0 points in his launch assessment. Basically, the 5090 for some purpose doesn’t run correctly on Home windows, even with the best driver, on PCIe Gen5, however altering the PCIe model to 4.0 within the BIOS seemingly resolves the freezing, black display screen, and all kinds of show points customers are encountering on their system.

In addition to these, Home windows may fail to acknowledge the RTX 5090 and this bug shouldn’t be fastened by altering the PCIe model both.

The RTX 5090D which is a China-only cut-down variant of the 5090 has many customers complaining that their playing cards had been bricked after Home windows and BIOS failed to acknowledge the GPU.

Nvidia assured that it didn’t “anticipate” energy connectors to soften, and up to now that has held true. Hopefully, the GeForce RTX 50 collection launch doesn’t get any worse than this.

Through: Wccftech