NVIDIA Warns of A Gaming GPU Shortage as It Prepares to Launch Its GeForce RTX 50 Series

Ha....you know how it will go....every piece will be sold out in 10 minutes at launch. I got my 4000 series card about 6 months in....and it was a forum deal, not through any retail. The MSRPs this time around may be shocking though.....scalping a 5090 for over 3000 dollars may be the norm.....yikes.....
 
That's a big ticket item to try and flip like that. Maybe the lower tier models but the 5090... I have doubts.
 
What I'm bummed about is that no matter what direction I go I'm basically going to have to wait until around spring for any upgrades, and largely thanks to scalpers. I'm fully expecting, and really hoping I'm wrong, for the 50-series launch to be a s**t show. If it isn't I'll be happily surprised and the 5090 will likely be that last card I buy before retiring.

On the other side of the fence is an AM5 build. I could do one right now and come in at ~$1200 and definitely get some decent gains and future proofing with it. However, I'm really curious what's in store with the 9900/9950 X3D parts and holding off until they launch, but even if that pans out it might not be until Q1 25 and then I'll probably still have to wait for those d**m scalpers to fall off before I can get one.
 
Who even is looking forward to a $2500 card? I think scalpers are in for a rude awakening, because most people don't even want to spend the original asking price. I certainly don't. And it's not like there is some major game release coming to drive spending. I think the next time I upgrade my GPU will be when cyberpunk 2 releases.
 
magoo said:
Ha....you know how it will go....every piece will be sold out in 10 minutes at launch.
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This. I am so looking forward to less anxiety this time around as I'm not upgrading. Scalpers have basically ruined what was a fun hobby for most of us. Heck even the 9800X3D I got was because someone on (H) was selling a few for the retail price which is basically unheard of nowadays.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
but even if that pans out it might not be until Q1 25 and then I'll probably still have to wait for those d**m scalpers to fall off before I can get one.
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From what I heard some techtuber say if memory is correct, amazon was selling some 9800X3D with estimated delivery somewhere in januari b4 they pulled sales all toghether, anyways, I'm not paying 599€ retail for a 9800X3D evven if it was in stock.
 
nVidia may warn of a GPU shortage, but I'm warning them of a cash shortage in my wallet and bank account. 5000-series GPUs may be hard for us to get, but my cash is gonna be very hard for them to get.

The last two times I got an nVidia GPU, nVidia saw no cash from those purchases. I'd like to keep that going.
 
While I love my 7900xtx, 32 gig of video memory and a faster ostensibly better GPU is very temping. That and I want to pair it with a 9950x3d (potentially) and at least 96 gig of ram... yea it's going to be an expensive build update this go around.
 
DrezKill said:
nVidia may warn of a GPU shortage, but I'm warning them of a cash shortage in my wallet and bank account. 5000-series GPUs may be hard for us to get, but my cash is gonna be very hard for them to get.
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It's not that I can't, but I won't.

I never saw the point in being on the cutting edge, now with scalping and already overpriced HW even less so. Why? Just to have it? I'd rather wait until I actually need it.
 
I have to admit, I ~was~ seriously contemplating getting an Intel GPU my next go around. Sure, they may not compete on the very high end, but there is no way in any sort of reality I'm shucking out $1k+ for a GPU so cards like the 5090 (and probably the 5080, and decent odds on 5070) were never in the cards for me in the first place.

However, now they are looking Intel is going to back out of the market.

I got nothing against AMD though - the card that's in that computer now is a RX5600...
 
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