From PC World: Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, the third graphics card in its newest 50-series generation, officially went on sale this morning… and less than an hour after it became available, it’s out of stock in every US online store. You might have more luck if you try to get it at physical retailers like MicroCenter, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
At the time of writing, I’m unable to put any card in a shopping cart at Best Buy, Newegg, or B&H. If Amazon has any cards available, I haven’t found them… but I’m sure resellers will have listings up on there soon, as well as on places like eBay, for vastly inflated prices. That’s on top of the already-high prices for OEM card designs, since Nvidia isn’t making its own Founder’s Edition.
The same thing happened a few weeks ago with the launch of the RTX 5080 and 5090 cards, despite sky-high prices. Then, as now, a combination of factors seems to have led to an even more frustrating launch than usual with new high-powered hardware. There’s pent-up demand two years after the RTX 40-series debuted, AI companies are gobbling up GPU supplies, and Nvidia seems to have unusually low supplies of the latest cards. Some retailers are projecting restock waiting times of weeks or even months.
Then, throw in the usual scalpers and retailers trying to make a quick buck off of a hot item, combined with inflated prices for OEM cards with enhancements of questionable utility. Not to mention both manufacturers and retailers bumping up prices for both the usual reasons and the ongoing trade war demanded by the Trump regime. It’s a perfect storm of gotchas for PC gamers.
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