With the launch of the RTX 5090, Nvidia and its add-in board partners set the tone for the rest of the GeForce RTX 50-series. And by that, I mean very low stock levels and almost at none whatsoever at Nvidia's suggested retail price. However, one key partner did launch its new GPUs with some MSRP models, but they've now gone the way of the dodo.

So, you finally managed to get your hands on an RTX 5090 after the paperwork cleared on your second mortgage, only to discover that it’s giving you 10 percent fewer frames in Minecraft than you expected?

It turns out that MSI has quietly increased the retail price of its RTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPUs, including models that were supposed to launch at MSRP (via Hardware & Co). This impacts all three Blackwell GPUs released thus far: the RTX 5090,

Several big-time manufacturers have listed their new RTX 50 laptops, including Lenovo, Asus, MSI, Razer and Acer. The Alienware Area-51 laptops should also be arriving in late March or early April. In short, there should be no shortage of powerful gaming notebooks to choose from.

The RTX 5070 Founders Edition card I’ve been testing looks like a miniature RTX 5090 with a slightly darker paint job and no LEDs. It’s still a two-slot card, and it retains t