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Cale Hunt

NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 launch could be the worst ever — can AMD capitalize?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card showing back side.

NVIDIA's RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs are launching on January 30, but rumored stock shortages could leave a lot of enthusiasts hoping to upgrade with no avenue to do so. A bunch of new information has come out in the last couple of days regarding NVIDIA's perceived launch challenges.

These are rumors barring any official NVIDIA acknowledgment, but the information comes from industry insiders. As reported by Videocardz, PowerGPU — a system integrator looking to get NVIDIA's new Blackwell cards into its custom PCs — posted on X (formerly Twitter), stating that "the launch of the RTX 5090 will be the worst when it comes to availability."

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