It's basically a lottery system and, for the time being, is also probably your best chance at being able to actually buy a GeForce RTX 5090 or GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card, both in Founders Edition (FE) form.

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Remember the 'Verified Priority Access' program from the RTX 4000 launch? It's back for US buyers, though you'll need to have an NVIDIA account.

Might be the only way to snag RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 Founders Edition cards Nvidia has decided to bring back its Verified Priority Access (VPA) program, which allows verified users to purchase the GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition and GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition directly from the Nvidia

There is, however, a key segment of its clientele that is not as enthused: prospective gamers looking to get their hands on the latest Blackwell-based RTX 50 series GPUs. Nvidia's

It was quite an exciting week for many gamers, as NVIDIA launched the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, alongside support for Avowed and many other goodies on GeForce NOW.