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US RTX 5090 stockUS RTX 5080 stockUK RTX 5090 stockUK RTX 5080 stockWe just tested the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, and spoiler alert: we love it! And with the time we got to see the RTX 5080, there’s a whole lot of gaming horsepower here too. But there’s just one problem — stock issues will be an issue when these launch on January 30, with ordering set to begin at 9am ET/6am PT/2pm GMT. I know at the moment it’s all technically hearsay via the occasional news post. But I’ve been working my way around manufacturers and the word on the street is that while demand will be high, the amount of cards on sale will be low.Not only that, but the price tag is a big one. The RTX 5090 will cost $1,999 (£1,939), and the RTX 5080 has an MSRP of $999 (£979). However, I’ll repeat what I said in my hands-on impressions. If you’re upgrading from anything like the 10, 20 or 30 series, the uplifts are mindblowing.I want to make sure you’ve got the best chance possible to pick up one of these GPUs, hence this live blog covering every stock drop this week.Plus, I’m going to take this chance to highlight the price cuts that will happen to RTX 4090 and RTX 4080. The vast majority of DLSS 4 tech will be coming to these older generation cards (minus multi frame generation and a couple of the RTX neural technologies), and you’ll still be future-proofed for a good few years with these older cards too. So if you want to save yourself some money, these will be great options too.Update (10:32am ET): Newegg has confirmed that you will be able to order your RTX 5090 or RTX 5080 online at 9am ET/6am PT on January 30. On top of that, Scan has confirmed a launch time of 2pm GMT on January 30 for the UK. If you’re in the US, you can already buy pre-built RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 desktops from Adorama! Prices start at $2,299 for 5080, and $4,499 for 5090.We expect Amazon to have standalone RTX 5090 cards as well as prebuilt PCs with RTX 5090 cards inside. There’s no signs of preorders yet, but once they go live you’ll have to act fast as this retailer tends to sell out. B&H Photo has landing pages for a variety of RTX 5090 cards from Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte. It states that preorders will start at 12 a.m. (ET) on January 31. Best Buy already has landing pages for select RTX 5090 cards with pricing at $1,999. Meanwhile, RTX 5090-powered desktops start at — take a deep breath — $4,199. RTX 5090 pages are slowly going live at Newegg. Note: The retailer isn’t taking preorders (yet), but I’ve seen pages for RTX 5090 cards from the likes of Asus and MSI. Additionally, Newegg is letting you trade-in your old GPU for a credit you can use toward the purchase of your new RTX 5090. A card like the Asus ROG Strix RTX 3080 10GB can fetch you around $321.Amazon is expected to have both standalone cards as well as prebuilt PCs with RTX 5090 GPUs. You’ll have to act fast as this retailer tends to sell out. It’s not confirmed if brick and mortar store Currys will have RTX 5090 stock, but as one of the UK’s largest physical tech stores, it’ll be worth checking. RTX 5080 pages are live on Newegg — spanning all the usual manufacturing suspects like Asus, MSI and Gigabyte.Amazon sells just about everything and we expect to see standalone cards as well as prebuilt PCs with RTX 5080 cards inside. There’s no signs of preorders yet, but once they go live you’ll have to act fast as this retailer tends to sell out. Best Buy already has landing pages for select RTX 5080 cards with pricing at $999. Meanwhile, RTX 5080-powered desktops start at $2,299.B&H Photo has live landing pages for RTX 5080 cards from the likes of Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte. It states that preorders will start at 12 a.m. (ET) on January 31. It’s not confirmed if brick and mortar store Currys will have RTX 5080 stock, but as one of the UK’s largest physical tech stores, it’ll be worth checking. Amazon is expected to have both standalone cards as well as prebuilt PCs with RTX 5080 cards. You’ll have to act fast as this retailer tends to sell out. Overclockers UK is a popular retailer for PC builders and the store already has multiple RTX 5080 cards listed. We’re just hoping the prices come down as many are currently listed for absurd prices.You’d never think the mobile phone network EE would be known for selling computing components. But the company just confirmed to Tom’s Guide that it will have stock of the RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti and 5070 ready to sell on January 30th.You can register your interest here to know when it goes live, which given Scan’s leak, I’d point to 2pm GMT.So we’ve got some questions — namely around what we used in our RTX 5090 build to test the graphics card? To match the top tier of this GPU, we picked some top tier parts too.We’ve been waiting for the confirmation and it’s (sort of) finally happened. UK retailers look set make their RTX 5090 and 5080 stock available to buy on January 30 at 2pm GMT. That is according to some very choice wording on Scan’s website, which states a “2pm launch.”This falls in line with the 9am ET/6am PT timing in the US, and while this is just for one retailer, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the same for others too. That being said, I’ll keep my ear to the ground for any early buying opportunities!ICYMI, Newegg has revealed when you will be able to order your RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards — January 30 at 9am ET / 6am PT.Chances are other retailers will follow suit, so get those clicking fingers ready. As for my fellow Brits, I’m tracking down any informations I can get on an availability time in GMT, but if we’re following US timing, it could be at 2pm GMT on January 30.I know many of you are eager to assess the improvements in rendering performance without leaning on AI-powered enhancements. Nvidia’s heavy focus on buzzwords like “DLSS” and “neural” has sparked plenty of questions among our readers about how much of the gains are purely the result of raw processing power.To address this, we centered our initial benchmarks on this aspect. The results? You’re looking at an average 22-23% increase in game frames per second (FPS) compared to the 4090.While we’re waiting for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs to be available, it’s looking like these graphics cards will sell fast, and custom models won’t come cheap. So, how does a Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU sound instead?Best Buy has listed an RTX 5070 graphics card and its $549 price is looking mighty tempting. This is exactly Nvidia’s asking price, with the GPU coming with 12GB of GDDR7 VRAM. It’ll be an alternative option for those who can’t get their hands on a 5090 or 5080, and it’ll be a lot more affordable.Otherwise, sit tight for further RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 updates.There is a whole line of dedicated GPUs coming from Nvidia after all. The first batch will include RTX 5090, RTX 5080 and RTX 5070, but what about 5060?Well a new leak has found a listing on the Eurasian Economic Commission’s website, which gives away a couple of important specs. Looking at the names, the RTX 5060 will pack 8GB of GDDR7 video memory, and the 5060 Ti will double that to 16GB.Now, given how video memory-hungry games are becoming nowadays, it’s becoming more important to look at this number, and 8GB (no matter how fast it is) may just not be enough and cause some frame rate issues.I won’t say for definite until we’ve tested one, but at the moment, all signs point to being 5060 Ti being the one to buy if you’re looking for a solid mid-ranger.Pre-built PCs are a great way to grab that latest RTX 50-series power if you’re not feeling too confident about the building process itself.We will have a full breakdown of how we built our PC very soon with steps you can follow and advice to build one for yourself. But for those who don’t want to go through that process, you can pay a little more and get the whole thing done and ready to plug in and play.Currently, two big places have pre-built PCs listed. You can get some pre-builts from CyberPower PC on Adorama. They say you can add them to cart and purchase, but chances are these are on backorder — with shipping estimated for February 11.The other place is Newegg, which as the company confirmed earlier today, you’ll be able to buy these on January 30 at 9am ET/6am PT.Mixed News has just revealed some early test results for the RTX 5080, and the numbers are a bit all over the place!In Blender testing, it is only 9% faster than the RTX 4080. But you can see this card has been built for gaming performance, as in 3DMark TimeSpy, there’s an 18% jump over 4080.Good morning! We start with some good news. Newegg has revealed when you will be able to order your RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards — January 30 at 9am ET / 6am PT.Chances are other retailers will follow suit, so get those clicking fingers ready. As for my fellow Brits, I’m tracking down any informations I can get on an availability time in GMT, but if we’re following US timing, it could be at 2pm GMT on January 30.As we previously posted, it’s not a bad idea to skip the RTX 50-series and instead grab an RTX 40-series GPU. Many of the links above currently direct you to the latest Nvidia GPUs, so if you have bad luck finding an RTX 50-series card you might be better off with a previous-generation card. Given their power, RTX 40 cards will be viable for many years to come.We still have to wait until January 30 for the official launch of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series cards. If you’re a gaming enthusiast, the next couple of days might be excruciating. Worse still is the very real possibility you might not be able to get a card at launch given the low expected stock.This is why we advise you to be patient when checking for deals. You might get lucky right away, or it might take a few hours. And even if you don’t get a GPU on day one, you’ll likely get a chance later on, especially when the hype dies down. Regardless, be sure to keep checking in on this page.IGN reports that folks are already camping outside retailers like Micro Center to get their hands on Nvidia’s RTX 50-series cards (as posted on Reddit).As we said above, stock for the new Nvidia GPUs is very limited, so it’s possible campers will be outside stores for a long while. That could prove challenging given the bitter January cold. In fact, Micro Center posted a YouTube video against this. “We do discourage camping at our locations for the 5090 and 5080,” said the company.While we understand the enthusiasm for these new graphics cards, they’re not worth getting frostbite over. That’s why we encourage you to keep your eyes locked on this page for a chance to snag an Nvidia RTX 50-series card when they become available.Nvidia turned heads when it claimed the RTX 5070 was as fast as the RTX 4090. This isn’t actually true in terms of raw computing power, but if you enable DLSS 4, you’re likely to enjoy games at high fps on this mid-grade card. So in that sense, the RTX 5070 seems like a decent upgrade for anyone with an older Nvidia GPU. However, if you want raw performance power, the RTX 5080 or beefier RTX 5090 are the best bets… even if they are far more expensive.If you’re in the market for a new GPU for your gaming rig, then choosing between the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series graphics card might be difficult. The RTX 5090 is a powerhouse, based on our testing, but it also costs an eye-watering $2,000. The $999 RTX 5080 is also pretty enticing, though it lacks the power of its beefier sibling.For most folks, the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 might be the best choice. Not only are they $749 and $549 (respectively), but they should provide significant upgrades for those with older Nvidia cards. But regardless of your choice, it’s going to cost a pretty penny to upgrade.I spoke about this a little after my time at Nvidia’s Editor’s Day. But what is it exactly? Let me explain what this will bring to RTX 50-series users.All graphics you see in a game are built using a number of triangles. In the past, these were definitely more noticeable in the likes of PS1 games, but the vastly increased detail since then means you’ll struggle to notice them.RTX Mega Geometry uses AI to bring in the next generation of this — Nvidia is allowing developers to stream in these details in real-time without the need to rebuild anything else. This means that you could render characters and details at 1 triangle per pixel. This is simply unheard of in even the most graphically impressive games available right now.As you’ve seen by the prices on Adorama, RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 pre-built PCs are expensive. But did you know that the vast majority of DLSS 4 features are coming to RTX 40-series PCs too?As you can see by the table here, the only thing not coming is multi frame generation. If that’s a massive dealbreaker for you, then I suggest you hold out until the cards are available. If not (and I guarantee you’ll still be able to play all the AAA games at impressive fidelity and frame rates on 40-series), this Alienware Aurora R16 deal is not one to be ignored!This is a monster of a machine — packing Intel Core i7-14700F CPU, RTX 4070 SUPER GPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a spacious 2TB SSD. Plus with a 1000W power supply and liquid cooling, if you did want to upgrade that GPU to 50-series, the PC will be ready for it.If you’re looking for the GPU specifically, product listings are live but you can’t order yet. Use the links above to find them and keep them saved for when they do go live!HOWEVER, you can get some pre-builts from CyberPower PC on Adorama. So far, this seems to be the only way to grab one right now. If you’re keen to get into the RTX 50-series systems but don’t want to build it yourself, this is a good (if expensive) way to go.There are six of them, but these are the lowest-priced models you can get.Since we posted our testing, CD Projekt Red issued its update to Cyberpunk 2077 that brings DLSS 4 into the mix. At the time of testing, multi frame generation was not available.But even with that in mind, the numbers are mightily impressive over the older DLSS 3.5.So as you can see, moving from that convolutional neural network to the transformer model is making it smarter and more efficient in boosting frame rates!We put the RTX 5090 through its paces to show its performance gains over its older RTX 4090 sibling, and it’s clear we’re seeing improvements in rendering and ray tracing.In 3DMark’s benchmark tests, we saw a considerable jump in performance by up to 28%. While these differences aren’t exactly worth it for those who already own an RTX 4090, those with a 30-series GPU will see a worthwhile bump.Check out the benchmarks below:Talk about a bump in price! Over on Overclockers UK, you’ll find plenty of RTX 5090 GPUs for quite a hefty price. The MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio is set at a bonkers £25,000, which is, uhm, a little much.Of course, this is just a placeholder price before pre-orders for the products go live, which is set to begin on January 30. Overclockers specifically states that “pricing is not final and TBC.” Here’s hoping this isn’t what’s to come from scalpers down the line.While we wait for these products to go live, you can always click “Notify Me” at different retailers so you can be one of the first to grab Nvidia’s RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs.Speaking of astronomical prices for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs, do everything you can to not give in to scalpers. A report from Wccftech shows that listings on eBay for pre-sale units are going for absurd prices, including this Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 GPU for a whopping $7,000. Yikes!A quick glance on eBay shows prices range from $3,000 to $7,000 for an RTX 5090, and these are clearly bumped up from Nvidia’s asking price ($1,999/£1,939). Of course, it’s great and all to be the first to get hands on an RTX 5090, but not at these prices.We’re still looking for pre-orders to go live at retailers, and we’ll get a better sense at what prices actually look like once they’re available.Over in the U.K., we’re seeing prices for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs at Currys. While these are still not available, we’re seeing some crazy prices for custom GPUs from MSI. As an example, this MSI GeForce RTX 5080 Suprim Liquid GPU is going for £9,999. Not quite the £979 asking price, is it?We’ve also seen an Asus GeForce RTX 5080 Prime for £3,000, which is still considerably steep. As for the next level up, there’s also an MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Vanguard Launch Edition for £9,999. Once these GPUs are listed for pre-order or made available, I’m hoping we’ll see these prices become a lot more affordable.If you’re wondering how an RTX 4090 measures up to an RTX 5090, we’ve got some interesting benchmarks to give you a taste of how well Nvidia’s latest premium graphics card performs.Our Nvidia RTX 5090 desktop GPU benchmarks show off the real horsepower behind the next-gen GPU, with up to a 32% increase in frame rate in Far Cry 6 with 4K Ultra settings, 28% in Cyberpunk 2077 with 4K Ray Tracing at Ultra, and 25% in Borderlands 3 at 4K Ultra. That’s a decent bump in frame rates, but that’s also without DLSS 4.Check out our testing below, and you can get a better look at how the GPUs compare in our RTX 5090 vs RTX 4090 test.According to a new report from Wccftech, Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs, particularly RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards, will be even harder to get at Nvidia’s proposed pricing. Apparently, not even after launch, as inventory levels are extremely low.As the report points out, Nvidia’s profit margin for AIB partners is low, meaning custom RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 models will be sold at a much higher price, all so manufacturers can make a profit. I just posted about how pricey RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 custom GPU prices will look, and this looks to be the case once GPUs start becoming available.This leak comes from Chiphell, which talks about the RTX 5080 specifically. However, it’s likely RTX 5090 will also be affected if the leak is accurate. We’ve still yet to see prices for both 5090 and 5080 custom GPUs at retailers, but if prices are raised by a lot, it’s best to keep your eye on Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs from its official site to get them at their lowest cost possible.Just how good is an RTX 5090? Well, we got a chance to go hands-on with an RTX 5090, and we were blown away by how truly gorgeous two demanding PC games looked.In Black Myth: Wukong, the RTX 5090 was able to achieve well over 200 FPS with DLSS on and everything turned up to max settings in 4K. This alone is a massive step up for PC gaming, and DLSS 4 played a huge part in casting away any ghosting or artifacting.We also saw Black State, an upcoming third-person shooter, in action. Here’s where we saw Nvidia Reflex drastically reduce latency. Plus, with the RTX 5090 powering the game’s photorealistic style, it was easily the best-looking game out there.That’s only a small taste of what an RTX 5090 boasts, and sure enough, it’ll be a game changer for those after a gaming PC upgrade.We caught a glimpse of what RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 custom GPU prices will look like from Asus, MSI and Gigabyte, and they’re quite a bit higher than Nvidia’s asking price.According to the leak, we may see an Asus RTX 5090 for as much as $2,799 and an Asus RTX 5080 for $1,899. That’s a considerable jump from Nvidia’s official pricing — with an RTX 5090 going for $1,999 (£1,939) and an RTX 5080 for $999 (£979).Still, some aren’t as expensive, with an MSI RTX 5090 going for $2,199 and an MSI RTX 5080 for $1,139, if the listings prove to be accurate. Once pre-orders kick off, we’ll get a better idea of what prices are looking like.We’re still seeing “Notify When Available” for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs at all retailers, but Adorama’s gaming desktops with RTX 5080 are still going strong. In fact, the CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme for $2,769 we mentioned earlier is now temporarily on backorder.If you’re looking to grab a whole desktop setup, there are still options available. That includes other CyberPowerPC models, such as this CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme for $2,419 with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB of RAM and 2TB SSD.Seeing as the RTX 5080 is set to be $999 (£979), we’re sure many with a gaming desktop already set up will wait for stocks to be available. We’ll keep you updated.Latency is one of those things that always comes up when talking about Nvidia’s DLSS tech. While the frame generation feature makes games look smoother, it doesn’t actually change latency since it’s more of an AI trick than a brute-force upgrade powered by the GPU.When we saw DLSS 4 generating two extra frames on top of what DLSS 3 could do, it did raise a few eyebrows at the event. Would cramming in extra frames lead to noticeable latency? Thankfully, we were able to put those concerns to rest pretty quickly. Running around Night City, it was clear that those additional frames from Multi Frame Gen didn’t add any extra latency compared to what we experienced with DLSS 3.Now, this potential issue depends a bit on your setup. If you’re playing at lower frame rates, latency between frames can be more noticeable. But let’s be real—if you’re targeting 100+ FPS (and with DLSS, that’s pretty much the norm), most people won’t notice a thing. It’s smooth sailing all the way.Nvidia is introducing a host of new RTX features, many of which prominently feature the term “neural.” These include Neural Rendering for full ray and path tracing, Neural Shaders that use AI to enhance in-game textures, and Neural Faces, which leverage generative AI trained on real human expressions to push past the uncanny valley.One feature that immediately stood out to me during the demos was RTX Neural Materials. Traditionally, game developers need to manually embed textures and define how objects interact with lighting and ambiance within the game world. RTX Neural Materials streamlines this process by using AI to compress the underlying data, resulting in up to a fivefold boost in processing speed.The end result is textures that look dramatically realistic — rather than just looking like shiny pieces of foil on the ground. Alongside this, RTX Mega Geometry is able to vastly increase the amount of detail on any character to really give this a shot of shooting past uncanny valley.While we’re still waiting for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs to become available, we’re seeing RTX 5080-equipped gaming desktops trickle in at Adorama — and prices are starting at $2,299!Right now, this CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme desktop PC with an RTX 5080 is available for $2,299, and it also includes an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X CPU, 32GB of RAM and 2TB SSD. This is currently the lowest on offer, but more gaming desktops are available with an RTX 5080, including another CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme for $2,769 with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, 64GB of RAM and a 4TB SSD.Now that we’re seeing gaming desktops on offer, we’re sure to see RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs pre-orders be made available soon enough. Stay tuned as we keep an eye out for more to be made available.Nvidia has made it abundantly clear that 4K 240 fps is the new target for its GPUs — something that companies are reacting to with monitors that reach these eyewatering levels of smoothness. I got to try Asus’ impressive option out and I was blown away!And through some AI trickery, the GPU maker has done it. Multi-frame generation is the big thing coming to RTX 50-series GPUs — rather than just being able to generate one additional frame, it can now create three without any overt impact being made to the latency.That means rather than seeing frame rates of around 80 fps in Cyberpunk 2077 with everything turned up to 4K Ultra with path tracing, you can see that spike at a bonkers 265 FPS in my own testing.Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 4 is the next generation of Nvidias AI game enhancement tech, and it’s very different from past generations.The key difference under the hood is moving away from the convolutional neural network (CNN). This older method works to find patterns in any in-game image to sharpen them up and make them smoother by increasing the number of frames. However, it’s a bit of a flawed system that tries to analyze literally every little bit of the screen — leading to ghosting (seeing the outline of a fast-moving item on screen follow behind it).Instead, Nvidia has moved to a transformer model — the kind of thing you see the likes of ChatGPT running on. This adds the additional intelligence of DLSS being able to evaluate the importance of each pixel across an entire frame. That means if can think a few more steps ahead with greater efficiency. And in practice, it means vastly smoother edges with little to no ghosting on them, and a huge increase in frame rates (more on that later).I understand the first thing on everyone’s mind is evaluating the improvements in rendering performance without relying on AI enhancements. Nvidia has heavily emphasized terms like “DLSS” and “neural,” which has led many of our readers to question just how much of the progress comes down to raw processing power alone.To answer this question, our first benchmarks focused on this, and you’re looking at a roughly 22-23% average increase in game frames per second (FPS) over the 4090.Morning everyone, and welcome to the RTX 50-series stock checker live blog! I’ll be taking you through any and all stock we find of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — set to go on sale January 30.My anticipation is that preorders will be available in the next couple of days! So keep this live blog bookmarked and we’ll let you know once they do. This will give you the best chance to avoid the scalpers.If you’re on the fence about whether to buy one of these new cards (priced at up to $2,000 for the Founders Edition or even more from other companies), Senior Computing Editor Alex Wawro has broken down the three reasons to buy and two to skip.We tested Nvidia’s RTX 5090 desktop GPU — gaming performance gains are HUGEI got an exclusive look at Nvidia’s RTX 50-Series GPUs — 5 big revealsIs DeepSeek safe to use?Tom’s Guide is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site.©
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