[ Gearbest Technology News]The graphics card circle is booming! Nvidia's new generation flagship RTX 5090/5080 has gone missing after being launched. Buying it now is more difficult than winning the lottery. These two “air cards” that just appeared on the shelves last week were suddenly out of stock in global channels. Overclockers UK, a long-established British e-commerce company, directly showed its hand: ordering now requires waiting in line for at least 16 weeks, which is equivalent to booking Christmas gifts in advance.
How crazy is this card grabbing battle? British retailers revealed that the queue for the first batch of reservations has reached an end, and even the channels for adding orders have been closed urgently. The worst situation is for RTX 5090 players. Those who are unlucky may have to wait until early summer to get new cards. The situation at 5080 next door is slightly better, but you have to be mentally prepared to wait for two months. What’s even more magical is the U.S. market. Inventories on Amazon, Newegg and other platforms have been sold out in seconds, with only a few merchants offering astronomical prices of US$2,600 – 40% higher than the official guide price.
Now the only place where spot transactions are available is eBay, the “scalper carnival”, but there are pitfalls here: what someone bought for US$2,000 was actually a graphics card image file, and a real warrior had to shell out US$7,000 to take away the real card. Akihabara, Japan, is even more exaggerated. I heard that some people destroyed kindergarten street signs in order to compete for the first release. The level of enthusiasm is comparable to that of the iPhone 4s when it was launched.
In fact, there were rumors before the release that this generation of graphics cards would be a trick, but no one expected that the shortage would be so fierce. According to industry insiders, in addition to mining bosses and AI companies sweeping away goods, ordinary players are also driving this wave of retaliatory upgrades – after all, the previous generation 40 series was criticized for “squeezing out toothpaste” for two years, and the performance leap of the 50 series directly ignited consumer desire.
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