Nvidia will begin selling both the $2,000 RTX 5090 GPU and the slightly-less-powerful-but-still-beefy $1,000 RTX 5080 GPU. While both graphics cards sport high prices, that hasn’t stopped hype from building and that has led to Nvidia warning people that the cards are likely to sell out fast.

The most powerful of Nvidia's newest Blackwell graphics cards is a " beast ." Review after review has brought up benchmarks showcasing that when it comes to gaming, the RTX 5090 blows its predecessors and other graphics cards away. However, it appears that for many consumers, the RTX 5090 is overkill.

An internet user has posted a photo of a few consumers placing tents outside a Micro Center store in anticipation for Thursday's launch of the RTX 5090 and 5080 graphics cards.