Not been able to buy the NVIDIA RTX 5000 GPU you wanted yet? That might be about to change

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NVIDIA's RTX 5000 graphics cards may finally be turning a corner with stock levels improving considerably, or at least that's the latest suggestion from the grapevine.

Moore's Law is Dead (MLID) aired this rumor in his latest episode of 'Broken Silicon' on YouTube (see above), which typically recaps (or expands on) existing recent leaks, but sometimes introduces fresh material to spice things up more.

In this case, MLID has heard new info from a couple of sources at retailers about how NVIDIA is now getting more Blackwell GPU supply through.

One of these sources who works at a major online retailer claims that they received no less than 10x the number of Blackwell graphics cards at their warehouse with the most recent shipment (this was last Friday, April 18).

MLID elaborates that typically this retailer was receiving shipments of around 20 to 30 RTX 5000 GPUs, and in this latest batch got around 300. They were mostly RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti models, apparently, with some RTX 5060 Ti 16GB boards (and notably no 8GB variants). There was a scattering of RTX 5080 graphics cards, too, but no RTX 5090 products.

A second source at a major US retailer got a "couple of hundred" Blackwell graphics cards through, again last Friday, and a friend who worked at another outlet for the same chain (cough, Micro Center by the sounds of it, cough) said they got over a hundred.

Again, typically in the past those stores have received 10 to 30 NVIDIA RTX 5000 GPUs in a shipment, so totting up those three retailers, we've gone from 60 to 70 between them, to more like 600 last week - a major uptick indeed.

Getting up to speed with AMD?

Notably, this is about equal to what the claimed volume of shipments is for AMD RDNA 4 currently - and with the focus on the RTX 5070 models primarily (and new RTX 5060 Ti 16GB to some extent), it almost feels like a direction reaction to Team Red's new RX 9070 models.

Has NVIDIA realized how far it's lagging behind in terms of gaming GPUs due to the pitiful supply of RTX 5000 models, following AMD's big RDNA 4 launch - and that's forced it to crank up Blackwell production lines? Which would, of course, have taken some time to come through distribution channels to retail.

It seems like that's possible, or maybe problems in the supply chain have been ironed out somewhere. Whatever the case, MLID notes that Blackwell supply is definitely improving in a big way - at least for now.

How is this reflected in the current situation for some of the bigger US retailers? Well, the RTX 5070 appears to be in fairly healthy stock all of a sudden - priced from $610 at Newegg for example - though that's perhaps not a surprise given the lukewarm reception the GPU received.

The better-thought-of RTX 5070 Ti is not around in the same numbers, but Newegg still has a few models available to buy (though starting from $900, this is quite the hike over the MSRP).

RTX 5080 models are in decent stock, too, it would seem, but the pricing is more eye-watering, starting at $1,400 on Newegg.

The RTX 5060 Ti remains thin on the ground, but you can buy the 16GB model, albeit at $550 - so you'd be better off considering an RTX 5070 given this (in fact, that's the RTX 5070's MSRP).