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Many Micro Center Stores Got Less Than 5 RTX 5090 Units At Launch
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Artificial scarcity.
Artificial as in, they could make more consumer cards, but chose the much more profitable business hardware.
There aren't warehouses full of 5090s, but NVIDIA is drip feeding them to people.
It depends, I'm not sure if it's a binning thing and they can't make enough perfect chips for the 3090. Or it might just be limited memory, they're using all the gddr7 that's being made and that's with many different suppliers.