RTX 5090 supply to greatly increase in the coming weeks

Getting your hands on a GeForce RTX 5090 has been nigh impossible due to low supply and scalpers. That could change in the coming weeks if a leak from X leaker @Zed__Wang is accurate. Apparently, the market will get a "stupidly high" number of RTX 5090 cards in about a month.

The leaker says Nvidia has an oversupply of B200 data centre GPU due to plummeting demand. It uses a GB100 GPU, from which the RTX 5090's GB202 is derived. Hence, the leftover GB100 dies will be repurposed into RTX 5090s, effectively ending the shortage.

That said, this goes against an earlier report which stated Nvidia's RTX 50 series laptop chips have been pushed back due to supply issues. Now, the exact reason for that delay reason isn't clear, but some speculate it to be due to a shortage of GPUs, while others opine it is due to performance and functionality issues.

Nevertheless, if true, those waiting to upgrade their GPUs might have to slug it out for just a month. Plus, there will be more options to pick from. Along with the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will also be out of the door, along with AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070. And if you're willing to wait a bit, AMD's 32 GB Radeon RX 9070 XTX is due to come out later this year.

But you should probably hold off on getting a RTX 5090 until Nvidia officially acknowledges the issue with melting cables. Initial analysis suggests it is a hardware fault (lack of shunt resistors for load balancing), and the issue might not be fixable via firmware. Hopefully, the new RTX 5090 batches made from now on come with the protections baked in.