Our colleagues from VideoCardz also quote a representative of Zotac South Korea who indicates that it will be impossible to keep the date of January 30, and that the cards will not be available before mid-February.
This comment concerns above all the GeForce RTX 5090, whose release on January 30, at least from Zotac, seems illusory. Zotac South Korea does not think it will be able to offer any before mid-February, and is barely more optimistic for the RTX 5080: “ We are in the process of confirming the release schedule. We'll tell you more when this calendar is ready. »
In fact, there is no question of an official postponement yet, but things are still not going in the right direction for this RTX 5080. Zotac is however not the only one in this case, and if NVIDIA's partners do not not everyone speaks openly, the communication problems between graphics card manufacturers on one side and NVIDIA on the other are obvious.
-In order to prevent some from taking advantage of this looming shortage (the famous scalpers), several resellers have already put in place purchase restrictions, such as limiting one card per customer at the time of ordering. In this context, we understand a little better the shift to March made official by AMD for its Radeon RX 9000.