Nvidia RTX 5090 pre-order time: when to buy it on January 30
An update on when and where to buy Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 in the US.
📆 You can pre-order Nvidia’s RTX 5090 RTX 5080 on January 30
⏰ The first pre-order time is 9am ET (6am PT), according to Newegg
🫥 Multiple reports say RTX 50-series cards will quickly run out of stock at launch
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Nvidia RTX 5090 pre-orders will begin on January 30 at 9am ET (6am PT), according to multiple retailers in the United States. They won’t last very long beyond that.
Newegg was the first store in the US to confirm that Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 pre-orders would officially open at 9am ET. Although Newegg and Best Buy already have landing pages listing all the new graphics cards it will have available, you won’t be able to add them to your cart or claim a preorder on them until Thursday morning.
If you read our Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 review, you know that these are Nvidia’s most impressive GPU uplifts, especially for those coming from a 30-series or even 40-series graphics card. Nvidia’s latest flagship card can let you play AAA games at 4K and 400 fps.
Even with the Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition launching at $1,999, demand will be high, and multiple reports suggest the stock will be low. We fully expect the Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 will sell out as fast as the PS5 30th Anniversary Edition. So you’ll have to be fast to get ahold of a new Nvidia Blackwell GPU.
Stay tuned for more RTX 5090 pre-order news. On January 30, we’ll launch a new post with links to where to buy the Nvidia RTX 5090 from on Newegg, Nvidia, Microcenter, Best Buy, Amazon, and more!
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I'm only interested in the Founder's Edition from NVidia, not the 3rd party cards. Where would you suggest we look for those? I only see the listing at BestBuy, and they have a bad reputation of being targeted by bots to grab all their stock.
I have the 4090 FE. NewEgg is offering $1350 trade-in...wondering if I can get more secondary market. That is a pretty good chunk towards the 5090.