- Zotac has horizontal pricing with RTX 5090 models in its US online store
- Two of them, including the top-end board, now costs $ 500 more
- This follows similar traits from ASUS and MSI with the Blackwell flag ship on their own online stores
Zotac is the latest third -party graphics card manufacturer that is currently appearing to inflate the price of Nvidia’s Blackwell Flagship GPU.
Videocardz noticed a Reddit post (see below) that marked it in the Zotac store in the United States, its RTX 5090 models became equally more expensive -and these GPUs are certainly nowhere near the official MSRP.
Zotac 5090 AMP Extreme is now $ 3000 and 5090 Solid OC is now $ 2700 from R/Nvidia
As you can see, the ZOTAC RTX 5090 AMP Extreme is now the scales of a wallet that applies to $ 3,000, and even the smaller RTX 5090 solid OC model is a heavy weight and equally worrying $ 2,700 drainage on your bank balance.
This represents a new $ 500 increase on the price tag in the case of both graphics cards, according to the information passed on Reddit here.
Zotac is one of the board manufacturers who sell their products directly from their own online store, where ASUS and MSI are also in this club. Unfortunately, all three of these companies have horizontally prices, especially with the RTX 5090 (as ASUS recently inflated by a hefty amount, so its top-end GPU is even more expensive than Zotac’s AMP Extreme).
Analysis: Hiking Pain
You can argue that the price will always be related to supply and demand, and if it is not crystal clear enough now, the supply of Blackwell GPUs has so far been pretty terrible and demand has the way that exceeded it. Even the demand for the expensive RTX 5090, where the flagship was hit by some of the most ridiculous price increases that we have so far witnessed in this new generation of NVIDIA graphics cards.
Further arguments, as Videocardz point out, can also be stacked here, such as the import tariffs with the permission of Trump. But in the end, we see with the RTX 5090 prices, beyond the pale.
In this case, Zotac’s solid and technically Entry-Level RTX 5090 (it is actually one step up to be the over-clocked version, although it has only a very modest over-clock that is used and apparently the basic version is not indicated in the US Store anymore). The solid OC really shouldn’t be much over Nvidia’s MSRP, which is $ 1,999 (the price of the founder edition), but this GPU is now a huge 35% more expensive.
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In any case, the second argument I’ve seen is: Well, the RTX 5090 models are all out of stock, so who is interested in what the price is – it’s kind of irrelevant. And while it is certainly true, this is a short -lived perception and rather short -sighted as such. When fixtures start filtering in again, the jacked-up price fixing (presumably) will still apply (for a while, perhaps, until supply and demand correct further).
What is unfortunate is that a sturdy Uptick in the RTX 5090 share was predicted to happen in late March when we were sitting now and there is no sign of any such increase in supply. What happens to that? The rumor may have been wrong, or maybe Nvidia has rejected her chip allocation and just remains too busy with the sale of heavy weight AI graphics card (which uses the same GB202 -chip as RTX 5090).
In the meantime, there are stories of Reddit of waiting lists for pre -ordered RTX 5090 graphics cards that are so long, those who have already put their money down will probably wait at least another three months for GPU to be sent.
It’s all a bit of a nightmare, honest, and with AMDS RX 9070 share also disappears as soon as it arrives in stores, although Team Red’s supply is a good deal better than Nvidia’s Blackwell graphics card, it’s still a difficult situation for buyers. And that is precisely why a good number of PC players (myself included) get tired of the situation and have withdrawn to a strategy just to wait for this warehouse-and-price storm to clear.
