Nvidia RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 prices soaring to double or triple MSRP amidst shortages

[Redaktion]

The RTX 50 series launch was predictably discouraging for gamers desperate for a GPU upgrade. eBay scalpers are once again profiting, reselling the RTX 5090 for $6000 or more. Is there any hope of the RTX 5080 or RTX 5090 becoming more widely available?

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-RTX-5080-and-RTX-5090-prices-soaring-to-double-or-triple-MSRP-amidst-shortages.954845.0.html

[Jonas Bee]

There's only one thing that's worse than scalpers, it's people who buy from them.

[KulkieT]

they can put any price they want,its not covid time and we dont need gpus like before, its for posers to show off new hardware .im sticking to old 3080 its more than enough, fewer more fps doesn't make any difference for gamers

20-30$ boost for 50% more power draw no thank you

[FNBoS]

It doesn't help when you've all these media channels constantly regurgitating and amplifying the very same message coming from these GPU duapolies. That these $999+ cards are for "gamers". And how gamers are after these types of cards.

Really, bruv? I actually don't know anyone in real life who has a **80 / **90 high end card. I'd actually like to see some stats and numbers. In the steam hardware survey, the top ten most used GPUs are all not **80 / **90 cards.

So we've overwhelming excessive coverage on hardware that doesn't even represent the majority of us. It just begs the question, why? For what purpose? For whom does this all serve?

I blame the media for this. The only people I know with **80/**90 cards are reviewers themselves, who are probably getting them for free in exchange for positive reviews - it would not surprise me.

Not saying these cards are not selling at all. But that I question how many are just ending up in server farms or companies, and not individuals.

It just makes no sense to me how the average person who is struggling to get on housing ladder or pay energy / utility bills would be shelling out "$6000" and camping outside for 4 days for a GPU launch.