NVIDIA RTX 5090 buyers complain of cards getting bricked: Here’s what’s happening to the $2000 GPU

According to a recent report by Wccftech, one of the Chinese sellers at the third party outlet named Goofish claimed NVIDIA’s latest driver version is causing the card to crash, making it unrecognisable by the system.

A bunch of users said they tried clearing the CMOS, but it looks like that isn’t helping either. As it turns out, a YouTuber who goes by the name Der8auer suggests that changing the PCIe option from 5.0 to 4.0 seems to be fixing the issue for some.

The NVIDIA RTX50 series cards are the first fully compliant PCIe Gen 5 cards, which means users have encountered issues when using them with older motherboards or those boards who share the lanes between the M.2 slots and PCIe slots.

As it turns out, NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 stock has already  dried up, and the only way to buy the new $2000 card seems to be from scalpers, who are charging a ton of money for the latest and greatest from the company. According to Overclockers UK, the RTX 5090 is already sold out and pre-orders have been ceased citing “incredibly high demand and limited stock”, with re-stocking expected to take anywhere between three to 16 weeks.