A hot potato: With the current demand for joint graphics card with low stock levels, it seems that people will pay almost anything for the RTX 5000-series GPU. It seems that there is no limit for what consumers will accept, as is illustrated by $ 3,719 asus RTX 5090 cards that came in stock in the micro center, but sold a few hours later.
Third-party manufacturers have been pushing their blackwell card prices high and higher recently, making fun of NVidia’s MSRPS.
Earlier this month, Asus, who is already famous for its expensive models, raised the prices of its RTX 5090 and AMD RX 9070 cards. The cost of an Rog Astra LC (liquid cooled) RTX 5090 increased to $ 3,409 at the company’s online store.
That amount is quite ridiculous, so when you consider $ 1,999 MSRP of RTX 5090.
A reditor named Pagusus posted an image of a display in Micro Center Dallas filled with RTX 5090 Astral LC card, stating that “ton” came that day. It seemed initially that with a selling price of $ 3,720, people were not ready to pay so much money. A commentator confirmed that the cards were also in stock at the Houston Micro Center at the same price.
Pagasus writes that the stock at Dallas Micro Center also had “tons” of RTX 5080.
Microketer Dallas got 5090 Astral Liquid ton today
Byu/pagusas innvidia
However, a quick discovery of stock levels in Dallas and Houston Stores suggests that all cards have now been sold. The Dallas has only the RTX 5090 GPU $ 4,899 laptops, while Houston also has a $ 5,499 pre-belt PC with a card. This is a similar position with RTX 5080s.
Despite coming close to $ 4,000 at the store, the RTX 5090 Astral LC is still clearly more expensive at EBAY. The listing of the auction site ranges from approximately $ 4,300 to a ridiculous $ 6,250. These are these prices, and the fact is that some people should buy them from resellers who are increasing the problem, making them more attractive to card scalpers.
Asus is not the only company to pursue its blackwell card prices. MSI did the same thing earlier this year, in some cases the prices got hundreds of dollars.
Earlier this week, Zotac included other people in its RTX 5090 prices rising, its two models increased by $ 500. The company no longer list any cards in MSRP.
While companies are in a hurry to indicate on tariffs on Chinese imports, manufacturing costs have increased, and other reasons out of its control, many arguments that they are charging these prices only because they know that people will pay them.
