- Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has disappeared from online retailers in the US and appears to be disappearing in other countries as well
- In the US, retailers themselves do not sell any stock, but third-party sellers offer RTX 5090 GPUs with very high prices
- These price tags are actually almost equivalent to a full high-end gaming PC with an RTX 5090
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has completely disappeared from the shelves of major retailers in the US, and the graphics cards that you can order from Amazon are exclusively from third-party sellers – and almost as expensive as a full PC that has the Blackwell flagship inside.
VideoCardz noted that Newegg has no stock of Nvidia’s Blackwell flagship GPU, and I’ve checked all the other major US retailers (such as Amazon, Best Buy, and Micro Center), and found that none of these major retailers even have the RTX 5090 for sale.
The only RTX 5090 models you’ll find are from third-party market sellers on these retail sites, and they’re seriously expensive – and in fact, they’re getting to the point where they barely make sense.
As VideoCardz notes, some of the cheaper prices you can find via similar price comparison sites are actually sold-out models, and the mentioned RTX 5090 graphics cards from third-party sellers start from around $3,500. The tech site did its scan a few days back over the weekend and found that most of these flagship GPUs cost around $4,000.
Looking now, I see one model for $3,620 on Newegg, but the others are around the $4,000 mark – and these are mostly all shipping outside the US.
Here’s the kicker, which is that given these price tags, you might as well think about buying a full PC with an RTX 5090 inside (again from a third-party seller) because they’re not that much more expensive than $4,000.
VideoCardz notes that pre-built PCs with an RTX 5090 sell at the same major US retailers starting around $4,400 – and I just saw that at Microcenter you can pick one up for $4,300. it’s an HP Omen gaming rig, and admittedly that PC isn’t available for online ordering, but it’s marked as in stock at all brick-and-mortar stores, so if you’re near one, you can order and pick it up—and it ships directly, not through a third-party seller.
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If you’re actually only paying a few hundred dollars more for a full gaming PC, that’s pretty ridiculous (this is made possible by the prices OEMs or PC builders pay for components bought in bulk on deals – and probably some time ago, of course). Obviously, you get a lot more than the RTX 5090 graphics card, and with the aforementioned HP Omen 45L, which includes 64GB of DDR5 RAM (now worth a small fortune in itself), a 2TB SSD and a flagship Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor, as well as a power supply cooling system (1200W more).
If you just removed and sold the core components (‘as new’ on an auction site) and kept the GPU for yourself, you could probably make a good chunk of money to offset the PC’s original asking price, potentially making this the cheapest way to buy an RTX 5090 (although selling the parts is a headache).
To be clear, I’m not advocating that you do this, but the fact that it’s getting to the point where a complete system with an RTX 5090 isn’t much more expensive than a regular RTX 5090 by itself shows how unmanageable high-end GPU pricing has become. Also a new development for 2026 is the fact that there is simply no RTX 5090 stock available, shipped via the retailers themselves.
As mentioned in this Reddit thread by several posters, some Micro Center stores had a fair collection of RTX 5090 models on physical shelves at the start of January, and these are now mostly gone.
It seems to be the case that people were spooked by the talk of price increases for the Nvidia flagship as January began, and realized that if they wanted an RTX 5090 before the price tags (possibly) started to skyrocket, they would have to move fast – and they did exactly that, leading to the situation we have now.
As the Redditor who started the thread above notes, they’re getting ‘launch day vibes’ with the flagship’s current situation, referring to the initial release of the RTX 5090, when the GPU sold out in a flash and couldn’t be had anywhere.
In case you are wondering about the rest of the world, the picture in the UK is not so dire. In fact, Overclockers UK has quite a few RTX 5090 models in stock (dispatched direct from retailer). Scan is not the same, mind you, and only offers two models for sale at the moment – many are sold out. The price starts at £2,700 and quite a few of the GPUs on sale are more like £3,000 (or more), which is pretty eye-watering, but you didn’t expect them to be affordable, did you?
All these prices are correct at the time of writing, but can change quite quickly. In fact, if the US is anything to go by, those RTX 5090 cards in the UK might not last long, even at these prices.
And finally, I personally wouldn’t buy from any third-party marketplace sellers (in the US, UK, or elsewhere), especially with an expensive piece of tech like an RTX 5090. This is doubly true for anything shipped from overseas, and these sellers often ship from Asia – so if something goes wrong with the product, paying for a potential return is a real headache.
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