Walmart RTX 5090 listing sells out as demand stays tight
Walmart briefly listed MSI’s GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB Gaming Trio OC during its GeForce Week promotion, and the card quickly went out of stock after appearing in roughly 10,000 shoppers’ online carts. The listing was first spotted by Videocardz, and its rapid sellout highlights how intense demand remains even as RTX 5090 pricing continues to sit far above NVIDIA’s MSRP.
Scarcity appears to be driven by a mix of tight Blackwell supply and reports that AI firms are buying RTX 5090 inventory in bulk before it reaches gaming-focused retail channels. MSI’s Gaming Trio OC variant includes 21,760 CUDA cores, 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus, a 2,482 MHz boost clock, and a 575 W power draw. With no RTX 5090 successor announced, buyers seeking the fastest consumer GPU have limited leverage on pricing.