- ASUS has introduced yet another price increase for NVIDIA and AMD GPUs
- ROG Astral RTX 5090 OC -Edition is $ 1,360.99 more than MSRP
- Radeon RX 9070 XT now costs $ 719.99, $ 120.99 more than its retail price
It’s no secret that Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series GPUs and AMDS RADEON RX 9070 series GPUs haven’t had the best launch, with several problems ranging from scalping, low accessibility, missing rops (on Nvidia’s GPUs), and indefinite price walks for table partners -and it looks like laughter becomes a worse.
As reported by Videocardz, ASUS has increased the prices of its RTX 5090 models, especially his ROG Astral OC edition, which now has a staggering $ 3,359,99. This is $ 1,360.99 more than RTX 5090’s MSRP – and while this is A factory-over-blink GPU (which is typically expected to be more expensive), it is yet another indication of severe GPU price inflation.
The same goes for the standard ASUS TUF RTX 5090: It is sold for $ 2,759.99, $ 760 more than $ 1,999 MSRP. Given that the TUF brand should be Asus’s more budget-friendly hardware, it is a bit disturbing. Either way, consumers will have to dig deeply to get these premium GPUs – and since Nvidia’s Founders Edition cards are hard to come up with, consumers are currently dependent on third -party opportunities.
It’s also not just NVIDIA’s RTX 5000 series, as ASUS has implemented similar price development measures on AMDS RADEON RX 9070 series GPUs. If you are out of buying the TUF Radeon RX 9070 XT OC edition, you must cough $ 719.99 – that’s a $ 120.99 price increase that undoubtedly destroys GPU’s most important point of sale for affordable prices. It is perhaps worse for those seeking the RDNA 4 experience of what NVIDIA has to offer, as AMD does not offer a first-party reference card for neither the RX 9070 model.
So if that wasn’t already clear, the GPU market is facing a significant inflation question – Asus has just highlighted it all, once again.
As I have said before, this is the worst GPU market I have ever seen …
This is just another example of why the GPU market has a big need for a big shift. Thanks to a combination of high demand, scalpers and generally low availability, consumers are left to succumb to ridiculous request prices and pay more than what GPUs are worth – or wait long, long for prices to fall.
Based on the current retail and aftermarket prices of Nvidia’s RTX 4000 series GPU -lineup, I would bet that there will not be little to no major price change for the RTX 5000 series GPUs (especially for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080) in the next year. If you are trying to buy an RTX 4000 GPU right now, you are probably still paying more than MSRP.
Are you thinking of a RTX 3000 series GPU or AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 instead? While you may be lucky at the Radeon end, you probably won’t find many options for both lineup-in the least not for new-in-box cards that have not potentially earned time in cryptics. No matter what way you slice it, this kind of incredible prism Hugging is not what PC users want, nor is it not acceptable in any way, Either way Whether there is low stock or not – and now I just hope it won’t get worse.
