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Cale Hunt

Memory shortages could kill NVIDIA's RTX 50 SUPER cards | Rumor or not, now is a good time to consider buying a GPU

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition and RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics cards stacked together.

NVIDIA's RTX 50-series graphics cards got off to a slow start when they launched in 2025, experiencing supply shortages, spiking prices, and general disbelief in the massive advancements afforded by DLSS 4 and the Multi Frame Generation feature exclusive to the new Blackwell architecture.

While a lot of PC gamers have now been able to get their hands on one of NVIDIA's latest consumer GPUs — prices have been dropping consistently over time to the point where you can sometimes find them for less than MSRP — others have been waiting for a mid-generation RTX 50-series refresh to spend their money.

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