Customers camped outside the Houston Micro Center Wednesday morning eagerly awaiting the release of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090.

Campouts have already begun for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, as people appear to be lined up in tents ready to plunk down thousands of dollars for NVIDIA‘s next powerhouse graphics card. This kind of thing is really nothing new when it comes to items that are likely to be limited in quantity.

On January 30, Nvidia is expected to release the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080. In our RTX 5090 review, we called it "the fastest graphics card on the consumer market," and it seems like the hype for a new generation of graphics cards is reaching a fever pitch.

Both the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 launch on Thursday. There have been reports that supply of cards will be severely limited, with some retailers holding

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.

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.

Eager buyers are already camping outside of Micro Center in anticipation of the RTX 5090 release later this week. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox