Production of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs is said to have dramatically increased due to an unlikely turn of events. The launch of NVIDIA’s latest flagship graphics card has been more mythical than real for most of those seeking to purchase one due to extremely limited inventory. Scalping for the world’s most expensive consumer graphics cards has reached new levels with some scalped cards being resold again by third parties, not to mention AIB partners raising their prices a week after product announcements.
It didn’t help matters that NVIDIA chose to launch the RTX 5090 at the same time as the Chinese New Year when many were on holiday further limiting production and worsening the ability for its partners to produce significant quantities. Well, things could be about to change, at least according to well-known hardware info leaker MEGAsizeGPU who claims that “tons” of the GB202 die used in the RTX 5090 are soon to be in the hands of AIB partners. It’s also claimed that consumers should expect to see product availability improve in about a month.
The supply of RTX5090 will be stupidly high soon. Scalpers will cry so hard😂
— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) February 15, 2025
It will be in about one month, I guess. At least the AICs get tons of GB202 now.
— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) February 15, 2025
It takes about 1 month, considering current manufacturing and shipping speed.
— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) February 15, 2025
Sticking to schedule after all?
These new claims about the increased production of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs oddly seem to align with another made back in January. That one, from a different source, said it would be around three months before inventory ceased to be in limited quantities. Both rumors would point to March when consumers will see a greater amount of products hitting the shelves. VideoCardz notes that there’s another external factor for the new turnaround occurring. It seems that demand for NVIDIA’s Blackwell datacenter GB200 GPU is less than expected, allowing for the GPU manufacturer to pivot its resources towards its gaming segment.
Per VideoCardz:
“The increase in GB202 supply was to be expected at some point, but this large GPU was competing with other TSMC orders such as GB200 GPUs, which are said to be in lower-than-expected demand. NVIDIA will now shift its wafer production to what’s profitable, and clearly, the RTX 5090 is where the money is now.”
Meanwhile, NVIDIA is expected to further expand its RTX 50 series desktop graphics cards with the launch of its GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB and RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB very soon. This will bring the current list to four cards in production.