RTX 5090 stays above triple MSRP while cheaper GPUs also climb

The RTX 5090 has held above three times its launch price since mid-September, and entry-level GPUs are climbing too. US new retail, tax excluded.

The RTX 5090 has held above three times its launch price since mid-September, and entry-level GPUs are climbing too. US new retail, tax excluded.

US street prices put the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB near the RX 9070 XT, while our native 1440p/4K suite says the XT is about 64% faster. Here is when the Ti still makes sense.

Newegg, Best Buy and B&H have not had a buyable RTX 5090 in PC Tech Vault's tracker since September 1. The one listing left is on Amazon at more than three times the $1,999 MSRP.

Both cards' latest US prices sit within a few dollars of their 90-day highs, each up about 4 percent over the past two weeks.

Eight of the 28 US GPU prices with a seven-day figure moved exactly nothing this week, after a month that ran as high as 39 percent. Europe's medians eased, the CPU discount narrowed, and $60 now separates a 64GB DDR5 kit from an RTX 5070 Ti.

Two months after the RTX 3060 12GB came back, it lists above a faster RTX 5050. NVIDIA’s $279 billion in purchase commitments explains where the memory went.

US DDR5 kits close out a year of roughly 500 percent gains, monitor vendors warn distributors, and the one place selling RTX 50 Founders Editions at RRP is a queue in Cologne.

PC Partner says entry-level cards get scarcer and dearer through 2026, while modded RTX 3080s and a $25-per-gigabyte VRAM service show the second-hand market adapting faster than the first-hand one.