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2025-01-30T18:01:23.086Z
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The Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 are officially available, and as stock counts refresh at retailers across the country I just wanted to remind you that you can do more with these beefy GPUs than just game.
Nvidia has built a couple of cool tools you can use all that power for, including RTX Chat (which lets you train a chatbot on your local data) and PDF to Podcast, which scans a document and generates a podcast about it with multiple AI-generated hosts.
With the RTX 5090 here, that process took around 15 seconds for a 250-page document-pretty wild! Download the GitHub now if you want to give it a go.
2025-01-30T17:08:47.004Z
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Don’t forget: If you’re an existing GeForce Now subscriber, you can game for free for a few weeks!
That’s because Nvidia is changing up its payment systems by ditching its third-party payment provider and handling the transactions in-house. That means you can’t make any changes to your current account for the next five weeks, but the upside is Nvidia isn’t billing you either!
2025-01-30T16:07:07.601Z
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Now that the floodgates have opened and people are racing to buy the new Geforce RTX 50-series GPUs, I thought it’d be a good time to remind you what kind of power these cards deliver.
We’ve already had a chance to run our first benchmarks on the GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia sent us, and as you can see from our results we saw a roughly 22-23% average increase in game frames per second (FPS) over the 4090, which is was the best of the best until today.
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Game benchmarkRTX 5090 (FPS)RTX 4090 (FPS)% differenceCyberpunk 2077 (4K Ray Tracing: Ultra)57.3241.1128.28%Borderlands 3 (4K Ultra)176.28130.7625.82%DiRT 5 (4K Ultra)227.6185.818.37%Far Cry 6 (4K Ultra)16110932.30%Shadow of the Tomb Raider (4K Ultra)16612922.29%
That’s nothing to sneeze at, and it helps take some of the sticker shock out of the card’s $1,999 asking price. Some are still on sale right now, so check out the links below!
2025-01-30T15:03:36.288ZOn Asus’ store page, they’ve put the text clear at the top. Hold your breath…
2025-01-30T14:57:36.395ZGo go go
2025-01-30T14:54:28.678ZOK, so that was quite the royal rumble of a 45 minutes! Here’s where we stand.
Brands that still have GPUs in stock
Brands showing “sold out”
Brands showing “coming soon”
Now that’s not to say that those showing “sold out” won’t be back with more stock. But in terms of who to wait for, I’d keep my eye very closely on the bottom 3 for the next few hours and tomorrow.
2025-01-30T14:43:22.034ZOverclockers website has been problematic over the past 20 minutes, and now we know why. The pages are finally loading and turns out you were all rather hungry. Stock is now gone.
2025-01-30T14:40:05.684ZUK stocking is looking pretty dire if you wanted to secure yours today, all except for one place. Scan still has some available!
2025-01-30T14:38:25.304ZJust doing a final search around, and it’s looking like retailers are either showing “out of stock” or “coming soon” (in anticipation of another drop). Give me a minute to check the final few to confirm.
2025-01-30T14:34:24.917Z
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I’ve already tried some of them, including Cyberpunk 2077 bringing multi frame generation, super resolution and ray reconstruction to hit 4K at over 240 FPS. On top of that, I got to see Black Myth: Wukong (multi frame gen coming soon) and Black State (coming soon), but here are a few more games Nvidia has confirmed will pack DLSS 4.
- Alan Wake 2: This is a big one, as it’ll be the first game to support RTX Mega Geometry, to drastically increase the amount of detail in its graphics.
- Hogwarts Legacy: Much like Cyberpunk, this is getting the multi frame gen/super resolution/ray reconstruction trifecta.
- Star Wars Outlaws: Improving the way video memory is used in such a hungry game is needed — Nvidia’s DLSS multi frame gen comes to Star Wars.
- Doom: The Dark Ages: We saw this at Nvidia’s event at CES 2025, and of course it’s getting all the DLSS 4 goodness.
- Spider-Man 2: On day one, Spider-Man 2 is getting DLSS 4 with multi frame gen. I can’t wait to swing around at 4K over 200 FPS.
Other honorable mentions include Marvel Rivals, Indiana Jones and the Great circle and Naraka: Bladepoint — all getting multi frame gen soon.
2025-01-30T14:33:26.565ZYou’ll have another shot tomorrow if you’re missing stocking today. B&H confirms that some RTX 5090s will drop at 9am tomorrow, and others on Thursday February 6
2025-01-30T14:30:31.448ZIf you’re close to a Micro Center, they’ve got RTX 50-series GPUs available to collect in-store.
2025-01-30T14:28:52.663ZWhile Overclockers is crashing and Box seems to have boxed out, Scan has stock and it’s running fine!
2025-01-30T14:25:18.959ZRTX 5080 + 1000-watt power supply currently going for $1,700 at Newegg. That extra PSU space is important for running GPU at full output.
2025-01-30T14:23:16.140Z
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If you’ve managed to bag an RTX 5090 or 5080, there will be a new GeForce Game Ready Driver for you to install that unlocks some of the key DLSS 4 features coming to the biggest titles (more on those soon).
On top of that, there will be DLSS 4 Overrides — allowing you to brute force DLSS 4 features into certain titles. Nvidia Broadcast will get two new AI-powered effects, and a new Nvidia app update will enhance RTX video super resolution, give you new multiple display settings and a whole lot more.
Downloading this is essential.
2025-01-30T14:21:56.813ZNO WAIT! Some must have dropped out of shopping carts. 5090 back at Best Buy.
2025-01-30T14:21:12.372ZWell that was quick!
2025-01-30T14:18:07.570ZIf you click “notify when available,” you should get on the list.
2025-01-30T14:13:52.321ZThe Alienware Area-51 gaming desktop is now available to buy with Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and RTX 5080 or 5090.
2025-01-30T14:12:14.062ZWhile other retailers are burning through their stock, Nvidia seems to be biding its time. This could be a second chance if you miss the first.
2025-01-30T14:10:32.344ZOne quick search on Best Buy shows a bunch of RTX gaming PCs ready to buy, but not quite yet. We’ll keep you posted!
2025-01-30T14:08:11.030ZNow we’re cooking in Britain, CCL has dropped its stock. RTX 5080s are here, but 5090 is not quite available yet!
2025-01-30T14:05:16.275ZIf you need to get a good monitor to match your new GPU or a higher wattage power supply unit, Newegg’s got your back.
2025-01-30T14:03:25.184ZBest Buy has the founders edition available to buy!
2025-01-30T14:02:30.632Z
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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.
2025-01-30T13:57:42.173Z
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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
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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
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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 settingsRTX 5090 performance (frames per second)4K Ultra (no DLSS)57.324K Ultra (DLSS 3.5 frame generation)97.64K Ultra (DLSS 4 frame generation123.06
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!
2025-01-30T13:50:13.523ZGet 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
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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 benchmarkRTX 5090 (FPS)RTX 4090 (FPS)% differenceCyberpunk 2077 (4K Ray Tracing: Ultra)57.3241.1128.28%Borderlands 3 (4K Ultra)176.28130.7625.82%DiRT 5 (4K Ultra)227.6185.818.37%Far Cry 6 (4K Ultra)16110932.30%Shadow of the Tomb Raider (4K Ultra)16612922.29%
2025-01-30T13:46:24.190Z
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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