RTX 5090/5080 launch day recap: the good, the bad, the downright ugly! Did my plan work?!
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- Launch day recap: in this video I share the good the bad and the downright ugly of the first hour of the 5090 and 5080 launch. Did you hit?
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oh well, they are all on ebay now.
For like 10x the price but that’s the be expected
I had a 5090 in my cart. The cart wouldn't load. Then checkout wouldn't load. Then they were sold out. 😭
Yeah, I failed my FE quest also. At this point, will wait for Suprim LC, since I have to wait anyway.
SAME FOR ME, I WAS PISSED!
I had the same experience with the 5080s. A lot of the sites just failed to work with the amount of traffick... all of them sold out in the first 3 minutes on every site. The supply issues are insane.
'There was an error adding an item to your cart' - was in the queue 1 second after the button appeared
@@lunarium5944 3 Minutes? Try 3 seconds. I was sitiing and refreshing every 5 seconds at the moment of launch. Got my preferred card in my cart in less than 2 seconds hit checkout, and got denied. Sold out.
You mean the Bad, the Ugly, and the Uglier?
Na alot of people scored 5080s
@ that’s the only thing that went decently
@@kr00tman_tech ur crazy cuz i didnt and im seeing only 3 other people in the nvidia discord who got one
@bacondudz1966 I saw more then a few, happy for all of them!
@@bacondudz1966 there were plenty of 5080’s. 5090’s on the other hand was a fucking disaster. Only a little over 200 across the whole US in micro center and everything online got botted instantly.
I literally just came back from MC in Queens NY and got the Asus Prime 5080. Bit of a struggle in the cold but having a chair in spot, a warm car, and cool people in line to chat with. All worth it!
That's the fun stuff most people forget about, those memories are priceless
worth it over waiting a few weeks? Nope... Not for the 5080 anyway. 5090 yes.
@Dexion845 hey that's your opinion and it's valid
@@Dexion845 I upgraded from a 2070 super, so YES very much worth it for me!
@@kr00tman_techf that memory. Waste of 36 hours. Rather just walk in and out with my shet(5090) and get back home
Congrats to the 100 people who got one
100% convinced all of 9 people got them online and the only ones that got 5080s and 5090s waited outside Micro Center for two days.
little better than that, but it sure feels that way!
Fucking paper launch for the 5090...again!
:(
and AIB 5080's.
What does paper launch mean
@@yeet9691No real stock. Like 5 5090’s at some stores and none at all for others.
@@ZackSNetwork that's downright evil bro
I clicked refresh on zotac store and it was sold out before it refreshed. So not true about the 5080
I was “in line” 3 times, each one sold out on me on best buy
Same lame ish soon tho
Same same
Same, waiting, then there was an error. BB and Newegg sold out in 2 minutes.
I had multiple tabs open for different 5080s and they were all gone in less than 10 seconds. I literally couldn't have done anything more right than I did. Total BS. No protection from bots and low stock == absolute disaster.
Had the 5080 white aero in my cart on Newegg 15 seconds after launch and they were sold out before I could get to check out. EVERYTHING was gone in literally 10 seconds everywhere...
Hey man we will get you one!
Waited for 8 hours and was only one person away from a rtx 5090 at the microcenter in Charlotte.
Ugh I'm so sorry, I can relate to that feeling
That's a cap, to be top 10 there. You had to be around 24hrs exactly. I was 16th there.....
@@GG-mm9hf I think you misunderstood. There was more than one person in front of me that didn't get a card. Probably like 8 roughly. But only one of them wanted a rtx 5090. So if they had two more 5090s I would've got one.
@@perlerbear5279 yeaaa that made zero sense
@@GG-mm9hf How? Like you know you can talk to other humans? I asked and the guy one person in front of me wanted one, but none of the others did. They all wanted the 5080. Idk how I can explain this more simply fundamentallly.
Waited in line at Charlotte and there was about 200 people there. Never stood a chance.
I got a 5090 fe at Best Buy first wave 7:01pm mst. Delivering tomorrow!
I kept getting in the virtual line for the 5080 within seconds of it showing add to cart at Best Buy's site but it either gave an error message or said out of stock after waiting several minutes. I thought maybe I could at least get a 5080 on launch day but I guess not! What a botched launch! NVIDIA had plenty of time to prepare for this and they still barely sent stock? I'm just trying to upgrade from my 8 year old PC, LOL.
You get your Chance. Just hold on
yeah same, no luck for me either, guess I'll keep an eye out in the coming weeks
Same for me.
Same with Best Buy. I recently got a CyberPower PC whose final return date is tomorrow... Guess I'm sticking with the 7900 GRE until the 70 or 80 series.
I got my 5080 FE from Best Buy this morning. Pick up at store on the 11th
Nvidia 50 series launched at 9:00am EST on Newegg, out of stock at 9:01am EST.
GG's........
you mean 9:00:01
I was there 9 am est I didnt see the add to cart button pop up once. Pretty sure it never launched on newegg
@@Cryptic-1-9-1-1fr man like not even 5 seconds into launch it went from coming soon to out of stock
Incorrect, Sold out everywhere at 9:00:01 am EST
Less than a minute. Less than 5 seconds actually. I camped out on the model I wanted and was hitting refresh every 5 seconds at launch. It popped and I added to cart within 2 seconds and hit check out only to find it was sold out. It was available maybe 2 seconds tops
Microcenter Manager came out last night and told us about the low supply. He said they may get a few more around the weekend but the real stock is expected to be 3-4 weeks out. Why didn't Nvidia just wait to launch the 5090 till stock was ready?
Chasing BestBuy 5080 FE only to get to the code confirmation screen to be told 'cannot ship to this location'. Doesn't even make sense. Oh well.
I got the same thing but I changed to ship to store and then back to my address and it went through. Why? I don't know but I'm not gonna complain.
you had it then bro. Mine said the same thing I kept clicking purchase and refreshed the page and it went through.
@@oHypBasto Didn't give me an option... just flat out told me too bad.
I got a 5090 at launch !!!!!! Fuck yeah bro
You probably used a bot
Same!
No I did not actually just a chrome extension auto refresher with page monitoring
@ what was extension called?
Congratulations!!!
This was the only accurate description of what it was like today
"Sign up for our email notifications when we launch" still haven't got anything.
Right, email notifications my ass. I knew when they were launching so I was refreshing the site at the launch time. But I've yet to get an email
I managed to get a 5090 at 2599eur, here in the EU, the MSRP for customs was like 2399eur.
I'm happy. It will be my first "enthusiast level" card.
Honestly, considering this lineup, the '90 was the only one worth buying.
One year max until it isn't top of the line anymore. Thanks for playing
@superioropinion7116 32gb of GDDR7 and all the CUDA will brute force my FPS up for a long time, so I just don't care 🤙🏻
@@superioropinion7116 dont worry he'll pay 3500 just 3200 at the customs for the next one
Nothing was a blood bath because literally nothing happened. I was refreshing on 3 different devices and on my phone, on different browsers. And THERE. WAS. NO. BUY. OPTION. None at all. It went straight from "coming soon" to "currently not available". There was no in between. Not for a single second. I was probably refreshing nonstop for 30 minutes on three devices. Nvidia literally lied to us. There was no buy option. Nobody could buy it. (From Germany if that helps).
Here in France I managed to get a MSI 5090 SUPRIM LIQUID SOC. I had 8 tabs opened on different shops. On 2 sites I could add to cart but they lagged out during payment. On some sites I couldn't add to cart. Got lucky with another one.
Same here, on the DE Nvidia site for a 5090 FE, the moment the link to buy was available (15:00) it immediately went to 'out of stock'. So maybe there was a hundredth of a second where there was one or two available, but the bots were obviously quicker than any human can react.
Waited 24 hours at microcenter only to get nearly trampled and no card.
What?!
@kr00tman_tech Yeah, Marietta was one of the stores where you couldn't line up until 9pm Wednesday. I was there 9pm the night before and hung out in my car w some of the other people there, was 3rd on the list that was made but when 9pm rolled around I almost got trampled by the people running like their life was on the line. They said to do this orderly and calmly yet the people who did follow the rules were the ones who didn't get a card. First time at a Microcenter, never going back.
I really don’t get people camping for a 5080. You can get a 4090 for not much more and it’s way better.
ALot of people like the thrill and the fun of it. I never had a bad time when I used to camp
Best Buy 5090 Founders, Add To Cart never appeared. Refreshed from 6:00 to 6:09 from Coming Soon, to Sold Out
I managed to order the last ROG Astral 5090 OC from my local vendor, I should be able to pick it up tomorrow or the day after, HOPEFULLY! 😂
The site was overloaded for hours so they had to shut down sales for a couple of hours and then suddenly I refresh and there was ONE left, immediately bought it.
Feels like Best Buy didn’t even get AIB 5090’s. When I refreshed on the a few different models it went straight to sold out
They didn't. I was checking on the model I preferred and it never even went from available to sold out. It still says coming soon and never changed.
thank you for the hope man. last and current card is a 5700xt, i upgraded my entire system after years of saving up to the best stuff, and after watching the shortages over the years, now it was my turn for the best of the best gpu. never stood a chance today being right there on line everywhere at 8:59, all logged in, trying to get a 5090. its been a little depressing and took 3 hours off work today just refreshing pages didnt hit a single FE drop. its crazy, i was in que on first BB drop, then error message, click again and sold out. multiple times. i thought i knew how difficult it was and was hopefull after 3 generations Nvidia would actually try to make it easier to buy their cards for the people willing to pay. subscribed
honestly, if AMD did a high end card this year, i would have been going for that instead.
Been watching this dude for the 5090 help. I didn't get one but bro's optimism is making me feel like there is still hope. Feb 6 is when msi is planning to drop their 5090s to my knowledge. Gamer unite to overpower the scalpers
@@sirmeilodas4321 Never give up!!! I'm telling you I have seen people score gpus when everyone says there's no hope, going to work on a 5090 guide, I'll have it out in a few days, this one's going to be more difficult then the 5080 one
You know for all the people talking crap on the 5090 they went out of stock the same minute it launched. Guess I’ll just have to wait for a cyber Monday
Need to sue the small Asian man for his leather jacket. He said they ramped up production and had plenty of stock.
I'll keep trying for the 5090 till the 5080TI/Super comes out this summer.
This launch was hot ass! Textbook paper launch. Nvidia, retailers and scalpers should be sued! Nvidia for artificially limiting stock, Retailers for not implementing any preventative scalping measures and The scalpers for being garbage humans and robbing people.
I noticed there is better power efficiency if you get later batches. For example my 3090 after 6 months of launch has same hashrate but slightly better power efficiency then my first week launch day 3090. I feel that manufactures must meet the same performance specs but over time they do find ways to optimize and revise the boards for better power delivery efficiencies.
UK. Managed to pre-order a Gigabyte 5090 on Scan. Expected delivery: 2-12 weeks. We'll see 😅
@@BC1422 I have a 4080 Super. I'm doing flight sims in VR at 5760x2880. I'm going to see a worthwhile improvement. Even at only 4K there's a 75% improvement over what I have.
Any schedule for the the 5090FE waves at Best Buy?
Did Best Buy even release the gigabyte cards? It just says coming soon I’ve been looking for 2 hours
Wondering the same thing
It did not.
Nope.
I did everything right and it slipped out of my fingers twice, I was in queue and it kicked me out or something, really sucked, oh well, I couldn't get the 5080 :( but totally staying updated through your channel, thanks bro
I'll have a guide out on Saturday on how to get a 5080
Got an FE from BEST BUY of all places.. heavy credit to your tips on having all information prefilled, making sure the card company doesnt decline, etc.
Im typically pretty pointed and not a fan of most. But you did a great job.
Thank you!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!! Hang out and I'll show you how to oc that 5090 in a few days!
@kr00tman_tech heard 💥💯💗
@@steadyclouds4614 at least a real person got one. How do scalpers do it? Mine errors out 3 times and they get them all? Can’t believe I took off work for this garbage.
In Germany there was no way to get one. Every website crashed pretty much instantly and once it was back up it was sold out.
I'm really really sorry I hope supply gets better there!
Germany had worse supply than other EU countries. Might be because the 4090 didn't instantly sell out on release in Germany
"If you wanted a 5080, you got one today."
Lies.
Never even had a chance and I was in line now I don’t want one anymore
Same I have a 4090 anyway. The reason why stock is so low is because Nvidia had an architecture flaw in Blackwell. This greatly slowed down production with the Enterprise Blackwell GPU’s. So to please them they are ignoring the gaming division for several months to get caught up with the Data Center market. 50 series stock will be better in 6 months from know. Hilarious how I will have a Switch 2 in my hands before a 5090 FE. This is how bad stock is.
@ lucky I’m still on the 1080ti I really need the upgrade but I guess I’ll just just wait till the 50 Ti models come out. I doesn’t look like it’s worth getting one now I hope nvidia catch on and don’t make the same mistake 3-4 times in a row 😒
I appreciate the encouragement
Got the 5080 thanks to you bro. Appreciate it!
I was on line since 09:00:00, got notified that it was sold out, one of my buddies decided to give it a try around 9:30, was able to get through the checkout process and got it. I was on my way third attempt on the line.
Well, they're selling for $6K in eBay and people are buying them desperately
Just because you managed in the us doesn’t mean anyone wanting the 5080 got one. Where im from the msrp ones vanished in seconds. I had one in my cart but the site with it kept crashing on checkout until it vanished from my cart and i ended up without
Correction "If you wanted an FE none AIB 5080 you got one" The AIB 5080's never even went in stock it looked like.
When do you think we’ll have steady supply and any tips to get one and monitor restocks?
I just released a video on how to buy a 5080!
@ Thank you. Good video. I’m looking forward to the 5090 video as well.
Well it was more than predictable and given the little gain in performance compared to the old generation please for the love of god do not buy from scalpers, we know it will come back in stock in a few months, let the scalpers rot this generation is not worth overpaying.
The 5000 generation is fictional.
He knows the 5090 going to be rare for a while that’s why he’s pushing 5080.
Got to know how to read into stuff like this and hes unsure of himself
Na I know exactly what I'm doing, can't promise I will be right all the time but I'm very confident in my understanding of the market
@ It sounds good hopefully it’s true. Knowing Nvidia we not going to see 5090s that quick in stock to where everyone can grab one
@DETERMINOLOGY nope we won't, that's going to take a while
I was “on line” at literally 5 seconds after 9:00, got kicked out due to “errors” multiple times. When I finally got in, it wouldn’t accept my log in (even though I was already logged in) and it crashed again. I got to the code phase, only for it to crash again. I was in line for every single wave the moment it became available and didn’t get one. Absolutely bullcrap drop.
Easily the worst GPU launch of all time. Even the 30 series wasn't this bad.
5090s will be almost entirely OOS instantly for 6 months, especially the 5090 FE.
Here in QUEBEC, Canada we can't ever get one "founder edition", because of local law that wants french description on the box. sight
And Canadians don't even speak real French......
@@regwatson2017 you mean french don't speak Canadian lol
@@sy5tem 😄👍
At my microcenter a guy waited since 2pm the day before to be #1 and the store received 0 5090s. Shameful paper launch from nvidia straight disrespectful to loyal fans that camped out having faith in them.
I wish everyone was able to get a 5080 but I guess I must've slipped through the cracks
Soon brother, soon!!!
i was able to get a zotac rtx 5080 on newegg by sheer luck, i cant believe i actually did it
I got one from Zotac, thanks bro.
@@andresgordo769 yesssss so happy for you!!!
NVIDIA send more CARDS TO REVIEWS THAN TO SELLERS HAHAHAHA
Microcenter in Parkville only had about 50 total cards. More than half the line walked off before the doors opened
I almost feel like nvidia is in cahoots with the scalpers sometimes. Whelp, the scalper prices will seem downright cheap compared to the cost the 5090 will be in the USA imposes 70% tariff's on Taiwan. We could very well see USD $5,000 GPU's before the end of the year.
1500 euro then the stores kept increasing prices, now they are at 1900-2000 euro in the Netherlands, this is disgraceful
articially increasing price. Nvidia is doing what it does best.
Uk was absolutely ridiculous, didn’t even go to buy, went from coming soon to sold out instantly. Happened to go to buy now at 3:00 GMT clicked instantly and clicked add to cart, and add to cart failed, so annoying. Do you know how often the founders editions restock?
I can't say about the UK, but discord monitors are the best way to check
I had the same experience buddy. Was well prepped here in the 🇬🇧Uk. Had phone ,laptop and pc refreshing. But Nvidia website only went from coming soon to out of stock. Absolute bullshit
@ParrotPuppetMaster same here for me mate
idc what anyone says they only sell 2% of the cards to consumers and the rest to PC builders
I was in line in best buy a few times and each time I got booted out due to sellout. I gave up and went to an appointment, and when I got back it was around when MSI Store did their drop. The site experience was abysmal but I powered through and I did get to snag a pre-order on a 5090. Honestly this time around it seems like MSI was the most realistic chance at getting a card early. Unfortunate tho, that I must wait a week for MSI to ship but I am glad I'm getting an upgrade before tariffs
What time was the msi drop??
@@RedstoneManiac3 2pm est
Truly a paper launch.
5080 Gigabyte Gaming OC from a local IT retailer in Thailand,it was gone in literaly seconds tho..Crazy work but very happy!
Congratulations!!!!
Hey I just want to say thanks for the hope. Been waiting since September, finally the new launch came. Had a card slip right out sight due to login issues on Best Buy this morning. Any updates or light on this sad situation helps. (especially for MSRP models)
Don't give up, I'll have a guide on how to hit a 5080 this weekend!
I had a 5090FE on Best Buy and had pushed the purchase button and it timed out.
Shame on nVidia for doing this every launch, so it seams.
5080 was instantly sold out on Best Buy, Nvidia and Newegg, where is he saying everyone got one?
Zotac and best buy
I waited hours online overnight in front of the micro center in Brooklyn, industry city.
I wanted the 5090 but micro center had only 4 5090's and 63 5080's 😭
How many insiders and store employees get one?
They get nothing, trust me on that
@kr00tman_tech don't feel confident that's always the case everywhere
Brother. I was 6th in line at the micro center store in Yonkers just for them to have 4 zotacs and I couldn’t even get that. It’s rough. I got the suprim 5080 and might keep it if that oc can get it very similar to a 4090
@@aboudyonduty OC #s are actually great
I joined the line at around 4:30am to find about 80 people ahead of me. Found they had around 70+ 5080's and only 4 5090's as you mention. I left straight away. I will have to wait a few week I guess. Congrats on your card.
Damn the Yonkers store had such low stock?
Yup people are sleeping on 5080 and how much they can oc
What a strong message from nvidia to consumer PC gaming enthusiasts. Just look at that Microcenter stock chart. It would be laughable if it wasnt so bleak for us. Oh well, hope all that AI stuff pans out for them long term.😂
5090 is the model number. 5090 is also it's price.
@@outlet6989 I guess that's kind of accurate lol
I got through on MSI with the PSU bundle, thanks for letting me know it was dropping
What a JOKE, sad what they think of us. How you gonna have a release with 10 cards or less per store.
Things like this made me wanna get out of this PC stuff. And then people flaunting like it's an achievement.
Was my first time trying to snag a gpu on launch and I was as fast as possible but no luck. Now I'm worried how long till the 5090 gets better stock. 😢
didn't have a chance at that 5090. I'm sitting here on a Titan X Pascal still xD. Built a new PC with a 9800x3D ready to go but I guess that GPU is going to have to wait. I feel about May is when I'm really going to need it anyway for DOOM The Dark Ages. Hopefully I can get an FE 5090 by then...
Even with a bot, I couldn’t get a 5090.
I am so happyablut this.everybody who wants to update will buy a 5080 now ehich is a 5070 in reality. Once the real 5080 which is 5080 ti will launch with 24 gb they will alread have bought cards :)
My Best Buy in ElPaso was sold out of the 5090 in under a minute. I’m salty at Nvidai for driving up the Hype Train and under delivering with the product stock amount. I want to hear from Nvidai about what there plans are for the consumers.
Absolute scalper and Bot Bloodbath on the 5090. Nobody , literally nobody got a 5090 using a common browser. Nvidia server Crashed at 15:01 CET!
Yall acting like this is new been like this for 3 generations its called the supply can't keep up with the demand
Grabbed a MSI Ventus 3x OC 5080 from Indy MC.. got in line at around 1AM
I was in the virtual Line for the 5090 and I even got the add to cart option. And the site kicked me out. This was a huge disappointment today.
Tried to get a 5080 founders and no go. Gonna keep trying!
Did u say 233 5090's for the whole US? 🤣😂
Hahaha yup
@@kr00tman_tech There is no fucking way....dead ass 233 for all of the US?
MSI had bundles where either because of their site dying or it was intentional, they gave a discount in the cart and the total was $1200 but could not get through check out with the site failing to load.
Yeah still down lol.
Yea for as right as I was with zotac, msi crushed me
It was terrible. I had 4 windows open, each one at a different store. Couldn't get one on any store.
Got a 5080 at MC. Got in line at 6am
That's awesome what model and location if you don't mind my ask
@kr00tman_tech zotac solid at Brentwood
dang 67 5090s were at the LA, cali microcenter... rest of the stores got like 4 each hahaha
I had to wait a long time to get a 4090 at msrp. It sucks seeing the same issues stick around.
Microcenter in Chicago, one of the biggest cities in the US, had ZERO 5090s at launch. Wtf is this launch
Was lucky to get my 5090 order confirmed on BB
Tried to get both and Best Buy wouldn’t let me I was there the minute it hit