- Nvidias RTX 5090 has disappeared thin for stock levels now but that may soon change
- Rumors say that board manufacturers get a large influx of chips for their RTX 5090 graphics card
- It can only take a month or so for this apparent increase in stock to manifest on the shelves
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 can be extremely thin on the ground right now – you would be lucky to find one still (note that our guide to where to buy GPU could help in that search) – but maybe you should wait anyway, for if A new rumored pans out, this will not be the case much longer.
The supply of the RTX5090 will soon be silly high. Scalpers will cry so hard😂February 15, 2025
Megasizegpu is a regular contributor to the hardware rumor scene at X and claims to have knowledge of NVIDIA’s GB202 supply.
These are the chips used in the RTX 5090, and apparent graphics card manufacturers get “tons” of delivery of GB202 (supplemented with the necessary VRAM, so there is no chance of waiting for the GDDR7 video memory will either hold up the production).
This means that they will be able to make much more RTX 5090 graphics card, of course, to sell to retail channels.
However, this apparent increase in supply – add your own spice – will not come to the shelves, because as mentioned, the boards still need to be manufactured and distributed.
That’s why Megasizegpu guesses that we will start to see much more RTX 5090 GPUs available to buy for “about a month” or so, and this is warned as a guess I should emphasize.
Analysis: Scalpers could be in serious trouble
A month sounds on the optimistic side, but if this is true, there will be an increase in supply soon enough and it won’t be too long before the shelves are potentially filled with RTX 5090 GPUs.
I say they’ll be Filled Because what we need to remember about the Blackwell flagship is that it is a very niche Proposition. Given the price increase with MSRP over the RTX 4090, the RTX 5090 is actually even more an out-of-reach enthusiast graphics card, so the audience for this particular GPU is pretty narrow, honest. A sudden increase in supply as predicted is likely to mean that there are RTX 5090 models sitting in the shelves, finally, and hopefully prices will normalize more, back to MSRP.
So if you were even tempted to buy an RTX 5090 at the higher prices, some retailers are charging, or actually a resold GPU at an auction site, the clear advice here is: its tight. It seems worthwhile to wait as we had to see the results of this apparent movement from Nvidia, coming through soon enough (and I bet that more rumors will soon mark this as correct if it is really true).
As Megasizegpu points out, “Scalpers will cry so hard” and it can teach people a lesson that price chopping new hardware, especially seriously expensive goods, may not be a wise course of action, and it will not come without risks.
On a wider note, this is the first glimpse of an optimistic prognosis for Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs that we have had since they were launched (it’s been a lot of downfall and gloom otherwise).
Nothing is mentioned about the RTX 5080 by the leaks, but still we can hope that if the GB202 supply is getting better, maybe other chips (GB203 and GB205, where the latter is the engine of RTX 5070) maybe because of a Uptick too, and maybe more of Nvidia’s RTX 5000 graphics cards will see healthier storage levels.
That said, Videocardz, who noticed the above post on X, also points out that what some retailers seem to do is strongly to favor pre -built PCs with new Blackwell GPUs instead of selling them like Self -employed products. Either way, if a lot of RTX 5090 stock comes, there should be no accessibility problem until too long.
