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Summary created by Smart Answers AI<\/span><\/p>\n Just a year ago, we complained that MSI was bumping up prices for RTX 50-series cards to levels that were outrageous at the time, ranging from $819 to a whopping $2,400 at the high end. Today, I spotted Newegg selling an Asus ROG Matrix Platinum GeForce RTX 5090 for $7,499.<\/p>\n The craziest thing is that, yes, this is a one-off from an independent vendor\u2014but only when you consider that most of the Nvidia RTX 5090 cards sold by Newegg hover around $4,000. Amazon isn\u2019t much better, with the average price listed at about $3,800 by my estimates.<\/p>\n Seriously, how did we get to this point? We were complaining about MSI RTX 5090 cards at $2,400 a year ago ($400 over MSRP), only to watch prices shoot up even further like a pump-and-dump memecoin.<\/p>\n I know, PCPartPicker\u2019s trend line shows that the RTX 5090 was about $2,000 in January 2025\u2014about the price of what we\u2019d consider a moderately pricey notebook\u2014and has increased to $4,000 since then. Somehow, we\u2019ve simply come to accept that.<\/p>\n Foundry<\/p>\n Thankfully, RTX 5080 cards are \u201conly\u201d about $1,500 or so, and RTX 5070 cards are about $650\u2014but those $650 cards only include 12GB of RAM. Meanwhile, a 5070 card with 16GB of RAM costs $1,100 or so, depending on where you look. You can quibble over the price, but the differential seems consistent. (By the way, AMD\u2019s Radeon cards might be a lot cheaper, but no one wants those.)<\/p>\n Not only do these prices put an insane amount of pressure on ordinary consumers, they completely overturn the apple cart of comparative pricing. If a graphics card inflates the price of a desktop or laptop, it can drastically change our recommendation on whether to buy that system or not. Shortages and price hikes that are ripping through the industry, and the chaos has still yet to hit certain segments.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why analysts were recommending bundles last Black Friday as a way to offset the price hikes. Retailers are more likely to accept losses across a bundle of components, especially if part of that bundle includes a software license or package that doesn\u2019t have manufacturing costs.<\/p>\n The other option is a prebuilt PC, which is really just a bundle of parts if you\u2019re being cynical. Buying down\u2014accepting a slower GPU like an RTX 5060\u2014can make a PC more reasonably affordable, like this Core i7 14700F\/32GB DDR5\/RTX 5060 desktop for $1,219 at Newegg.<\/p>\n Eventually, the prices of those<\/em> prebuilts will probably skyrocket, too. Remember, the current AI-driven RAM shortages could last for years. That doesn\u2019t look like hyperbole now, does it?<\/p>\n It\u2019s still hard to believe, however, that you can literally buy a used car for about the price of the ROG RTX 5090 card listed above. It\u2019s March 2026, and it\u2019s only going to get worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld reports that Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics cards have reached extreme pricing, with an Asus ROG Matrix Platinum model listed at $7,499 on Newegg. Average RTX 5090 prices have doubled from $2,000 in January 2025 to around $4,000, making high-end gaming PCs increasingly unaffordable for consumers. 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