Where to buy RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — launch day live updates

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2025-01-30T14:03:25.184Z

Best Buy has the founders edition available to buy!

RTX 5090: $1,999
RTX 5080: $999

2025-01-30T14:02:30.632Z

Maingear's RTX 50-series desktops are now available to buy

MainGear has just made their "50 Series" custom-configurable gaming desktops available to buy. Follow this link to pick one up.

In terms of other choices you can make for your build, these include the latest CPUs like the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D or Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, and up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM. You can really create a monster here.

2025-01-30T14:00:06.882Z

Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 are available NOW!

Time to buy! Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs are now available to buy online. Here's where to go for them (and be quick about it because they will sell out fast.

WHERE TO BUY RTX 5090 IN USA

Nvidia: check RTX 5090 stock
Amazon: check RTX 5090 stock
Adorama: check RTX 5090 stock
Best Buy: check RTX 5090 stock
B&H Photo: check RTX 5090 stock
Newegg: check RTX 5090 stock
Micro Center: check RTX 5090 stock

WHERE TO BUY RTX 5090 IN UK

Nvidia: check RTX 5090 stock
Amazon: check RTX 5090 stock
EE: check RTX 5090 stock
Currys: check RTX 5090 stock
Overclockers: check RTX 5090 stock
Scan: check RTX 5090 stock
Box: check RTX 5090 stock
CCL: check RTX 5090 stock

WHERE TO BUY RTX 5080 IN USA

Nvidia: check RTX 5080 stock
Amazon: check RTX 5080 stock
Adorama: check RTX 5080 stock
Best Buy: check RTX 5080 stock
B&H Photo: check RTX 5080 stock
Newegg: check RTX 5080 stock

WHERE TO BUY RTX 5080 IN UK

Nvidia: check RTX 5080 stock
Amazon: check RTX 5080 stock
EE: check RTX 5080 stock
Currys: check RTX 5080 stock
Overclockers: check RTX 5080 stock
Scan: check RTX 5080 stock
CCL: check RTX 5080 stock

2025-01-30T13:57:42.173Z

How much more will third-party GPUs be?

MSI Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series cards at CES 2025

It's a good question I'm being asked a lot. The Founder's Edition GPUs from Nvidia itself will set you back $999 (£979) for RTX 5080 and $1,999 (£1,939) for the 5090. But Asus, MSI, Gigabyte and more are getting in on building their own versions.

These usually come with different ways to cool the card and can come with a higher cost. For example, the PALIT 5080 is going for £1,149 at Currys. My advice would be to anticipate a price increase of around $200/£150 upwards for these alternative versions.

2025-01-30T13:56:05.788Z

5 minutes to go

Whether you're going for the MSI card you see above, any of Asus' options, or Nvidia's Founder's Edition original, they will all be dropping very soon.

I'll keep on top of stocking, and all I can do is wish you all the best of luck with your purchases. Let us know if you get one!

2025-01-30T13:52:46.869Z

DLSS 4 is a real upgrade

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.

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Cyberpunk 2077 settings	RTX 5090 performance (frames per second)
4K Ultra (no DLSS)	57.32
4K Ultra (DLSS 3.5 frame generation)	97.6
4K Ultra (DLSS 4 frame generation	123.06

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!

2025-01-30T13:50:13.523Z

T-minus 10 minutes

Get those mouse-clicking fingers ready, and make sure you've got accounts set up for the retailers you're targeting!

...are you nervous? I'm nervous too!

2025-01-30T13:48:42.207Z

RTX 5090 testing reveals big gains

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.

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Game benchmark	RTX 5090 (FPS)	RTX 4090 (FPS)	% difference
Cyberpunk 2077 (4K Ray Tracing: Ultra)	57.32	41.11	28.28%
Borderlands 3 (4K Ultra)	176.28	130.76	25.82%
DiRT 5 (4K Ultra)	227.6	185.8	18.37%
Far Cry 6 (4K Ultra)	161	109	32.30%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (4K Ultra)	166	129	22.29%

2025-01-30T13:46:24.190Z

Uh oh — Nvidia confirms that "stock-outs may happen."

To the surprise of absolutely no-one, Nvidia is warning customers that there is going to be "significant demand" of the RTX 5090 and 5080 — warning that "stock-outs may happen."

In a follow-up warning, PC manufacturer PowerGPU has told its followers on X that "the RTX 5090 will be the worst" for availability, and that it will be this way "for the first 3 months."

Warning you all now. The launch of the RTX 5090 will be the worst when it comes to availability. Already being told to expect it to be that way for the first 3 months.January 21, 2025

On a more positive note, Nvidia does note that it will be "shipping more stock to retail every day." So if you do miss the first wave, the likelihood of getting one will improve as we get further into the year.

2025-01-30T13:44:08.547Z

Tip #2: Create an account and pre-save your payment details

All to often I see a lot of people fall at the last hurdle of buying a high-demand product because they didn't set up a store account before.

Whether it's Newegg, Best Buy or anyone else, take the time now to setup an account and pre-fill in all your payment and address details. That way, everything is saved and you can just click through all of this — instead of trying to feverishly type it out while the stock drains away.

2025-01-30T13:40:49.294Z

Tip #1: Start refreshing a few minutes before

The first tip comes from the last time I had to join a rush to buy a GPU. Given the timing of this launch seems particularly strict, then the queueing system should start at 9am ET / 6am PT / 2pm GMT on the dot.

If that's the case, it pays to start refreshing the product page of your chosen GPU a few minutes before — that way you can hopefully be one of the first to see that "coming soon" button change to "add to cart."

2025-01-30T13:36:05.810Z

30 minutes until they launch

Happy Nvidia RTX 5080 and 5090 launch day!

We'll be sharing tips and advice on how to secure yours when they are available to buy at 9am ET / 6am PT / 2pm GMT. But first thing's first, when it comes to retailers to go for, these are the ones I trust. Keep these loaded in the chamber.