The RTX 5090 Makes a Vengeful Comeback, This Time Near $8,000

YouTubers said the RTX 5090 was finished. NVIDIA said it was not. Then the card vanished, and came back costing more.

YouTubers said the RTX 5090 was finished. NVIDIA said it was not. Then the card vanished, and came back costing more.

The RTX 5080's US daily median went from $1,659 on October 6 to $2,225 on October 25, against a $999 MSRP. Recent days rest on one or two captures, and the 90-day median is still $1,600.

The cheapest RTX 5090 in stock is almost $7,000, 3.5 times its MSRP, and 0.40 percent of surveyed Steam systems have one. Mid-range cards sit 53 to 84 percent above their launch prices.

The cheapest in-stock Radeon RX 9070 XT at US shops is $870, up from a $720 daily median on August 19. Newegg lists it at $900 and Amazon at $940, against a $599 launch MSRP.

Our tracked US retail medians put all eight RTX 50 cards above launch MSRP, CPUs below it, and a 64GB DDR5 kit above the price of an RTX 5070 Ti.

This week's Market Watch read: GPU prices sitting almost exactly where they sat last week, three Ryzen desktop chips priced lower and still under MSRP, and a RAM kit that took five weekly checks to finally get its first price.

This week's Market Watch read: the first DE/FR/NL/UK numbers alongside US pricing, and a batch of same-day 7-day trend figures worth reading with real skepticism.

AMD reportedly raises board-partner kit prices about 10 percent for August, just as TrendForce's forecast shows the memory price curve finally decelerating, on paper.

First weekly digest from our own price tracker: 59 GPUs, CPUs, and DDR5 kits across US retail prices. Blackwell premiums are holding, every desktop CPU we track sits below launch MSRP, and most 32GB DDR5-6000 kits hover near $500.

A reported NVIDIA price increase covers GPU and memory kits using both GDDR7 and GDDR6, but the affected cards, regions and retail impact remain unknown.