Did you just buy an RTX 5090 or 5080? If so, you were one of the very lucky few, as Nvidia’s launch offered a vanishingly thin level of GPU supply.

NVIDIA’s new RTX 50-series GPUs went on sale this morning and while most or all of those are already out of stock (it is launch day for a hot-ticket item), you can still buy prebuilt PCs available sporting the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 GPUs inside.

Nvidia is touting the performance of DeepSeek’s open source AI models on its just-launched RTX 50-series GPUs, claiming that they can “run the DeepSeek family of distilled models faster than anything on the PC market.” But this announcement from Nvidia might be somewhat missing the point.

Nvidia's H800 was launched in March 2023 and is a cut-down version of the H100 It is also significantly slower than Nvidia's H200 and AMD's Instinct range These artificial constraints have forced DeepSeek's engineering to innovate It was widely assumed that the United States would remain unchallenged as the global AI superpower,

Gamers, bots, and scalpers are all ganging up to buy an RTX 5080 or 5090 gaming GPU, and graphics card stock can't keep up with demand.

Unsurprisingly, dozens of different variations of the hotly-anticipated GPUs are impossible to find less than an hour after the official retail launch.