The RTX 5090 release time and RTX 5080 release time will very soon be upon us! The release date for these most powerful GPUs in the new Nvidia 50-series range has landed (January 30th, 2025 for most time zones) but the actual time they come out has not yet been hit, but it very soon will, and we’ve put together a handy countdown clock for you below to follow so you can watch each second tick by until the moment itself. Both cards are expected to become available to buy at exactly the same across different retailers.

Demand for both of these graphics cards is expected to be very high, particularly for the RTX 5090, so we recommend that you go to our Where to buy RTX 5090 and Where to buy RTX 5080 pages all the current listings of the cards (including Founder’s Editions and AIBs) so you can find the specific model you want in advance. You can then open up the window on the retailer site and have your finger clicking that refresh button just as the release time hits, then get that GPU slapped into your basket and purchased before stock runs out (it’s wise to keep your card details handy, or pre-enter them when setting up a retailer account if that’s possible).

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition

4.5 /5

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Specifications

• GPU: GB203
• CUDA Cores: 10752
• VRAM: 16GB GDDR7
• Memory Bus width: 256 bit
• Base Clock speed: 2295 MHz
• Boost Clock speed: 2617 MHz

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Has the RTX 5090 release time & RTX 5080 release time actually been confirmed?

There’s been no official confirmation from Nvidia as to the specific time these graphics cards will be available to buy, however almost every major release by the company lands at the same time, so everyone is pretty confident we will see the graphics cards available to buy at 9AM EST as they always are. This translates to the below times, depending on your region/time zone:

6AM (US) Pacific Standard Time \\ 9AM (US) Eastern Standard Time \\ 2PM (UK/Western Europe) GMT/UCT \\ 3PM Central European Time \\ 4PM Eastern European Time \\ 7:30PM India Standard Time \\ 0AM Australian Eastern Standard Time (31st Jan)