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.

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.

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.

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.

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.