Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 demand “overwhelming” says Newegg, as stock sells out

If you can’t wait to get your hands on a new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card, then you’re very much not alone. In fact, according to retailer Newegg, demand for the new graphics cards has been “overwhelming,” with the store’s entire RTX 5000 GPU inventory emptied 20 minutes after the launch, and most of it gone after just five minutes.

We monitored several retailers at the time of the Nvidia launch, and saw just how quickly the cards disappeared, with even big online stores regularly crashing due to heavy demand. Gamers clearly can’t wait to get their hands on the best graphics card in town right now, but you also only need to take a look at Ebay to see that bots and RTX 5090 scalpers are also accounting for a massive chunk of that demand.