This is hardly new territory with the RTX 4000 series GPUs, including the RTX 4090 in particular commanding a premium over MSRP for nearly all AIB variants, even as the Founder's Edition remained notoriously hard to find over a year after release.

Yes, there's more chatter from the rumor mill about how NVIDIA's next-gen GPUs are going to be very shaky for stock levels, and might sell out in a flash.

Stock of the new Nvidia RTX 5080 and 5090 graphics cards will be exceptionally hard to find, but here are the best places to look.