Nvidia is launching its RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards today – read our RTX 5090 review and RTX 5080 review – And the anticipation is clear. In Japan, multiple stores He maintained a lottery To give attendees the same chance to score one of Nvidia’s The best graphics cardsBut the event ended in chaos, with shouts and the destruction of a sign in a garden of infants, according to Videocardz.
The chaos report came through X, where a user shared that “angry shouts were heard” when customers began to place align, and that “some people even climbed on the garden of infants next door.”
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There is a lot of anticipation in any great launch of the graphics card, but the launch of Nvidia’s 50 RTX series GPU He has reached a high point. On Monday, days before the launch date of the latest NVIDIA GPUs, customers began camping in micro center locations In the United States in Westmont, Il, a user states that almost 60 people were online from 6 PM PT on Wednesday, and there was a police presence. Another user says that more than 50 people were waiting outside a micro center in Kansas, which according to the reports only had four RTX 5090 models available.
We have gathered a list of locations Where can you buy the RTX 5090 Today, including listings for all main online retailers. However, you may have difficulty getting one. According to reports, most retailers only have Single RTX 5090 digit stockand on eBay, listed as expensive as $ 6,100 have already been sold.
As if that were not enough, the prices of the new NVIDIA GPUs are quite high. NVIDIA establishes the RTX 5090 list price at $ 2,000 and RTX 5080 to $ 1,000, but the Board Models They are significantly more expensive. The early listings for RTX 5080 showed multiple models listed at $ 1,300 directly from Best Buy.
Unfortunately, prices are likely not to fall soon. Nvidia has slowly eliminated its latest generation options such as RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 SuperAnd you will have difficulty finding any of those cards anywhere near the list price. In the previous generation, we never saw that Nvidia’s flagship ships fall below the list price, even months after they were released and stabilized the inventory. We can see a repetition of that situation here.
If you are among the unfortunate many who cannot obtain an RTX 5090 or RTX 5080 today, be sure to see our summary of RTX 5080 alternatives That you can collect now.
