Nvidia simply introduced the official launch of its newest GeForce RTX 5090, which shortly offered out. The $2,000 graphics card was out there in very restricted portions at some retailers, with many reporting no inventory in any respect.
The Santa Clara firm has already notified customers about potential inventory shortages on launch day, with Scan UK advising customers to count on to attend till the top of Might – that is 4 months from now.
The GeForce RTX 50-series was revealed at CES 2025 earlier this month. The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 characteristic fifth-gen Tensor cores with FP4 assist, which lowers VRAM necessities for generative AI fashions and enhances efficiency twofold.
Nvidia outfitted the RTX 5090 with 32 GB GDDR7 reminiscence with 1.792 GB/sec bandwidth, or a couple of 75% enhance over the RTX 4090. The 5080 has 16 GB GDDR7 RAM and bandwidth of 960 GB/s.
Nvidia set an preliminary value of RTX 5080 at $1,200, which remains to be inexpensive than the $2,000 RTX 5090. In the meantime, some scalpers are itemizing the graphics card for over $5,000 on eBay and Fb Market, leaving us to marvel who can be so keen to buy the newest GPU at such an exorbitant value.
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