MSI and Asus increase Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 prices by up to $400

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A hot potato: Do you think that the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are expensive? Unfortunately, those looking to buy a model from OEMs MSI or Asus should be prepared to pay even more. The companies have increased the prices of their Blackwell offerings, in some cases by as much as almost $400.

Like most retailers, MSI currently has no RTX 5000-series in stock. However, people noticed that the prices suddenly increased on Wednesday.

You can see on this archive of its website that MSI had only one RTX 5080 at its $999 MSRP earlier this week – the GeForce RTX 5080 16G VENTUS 3X. Now, that same card is $1,139, a 14% increase.

It's the same story with the RTX 5090. The only card that had been priced at its $1,999 MSRP, also a Ventus 3X, is now $2,379, up 19%.

Other products have also experienced price hikes. The OC Plus variant of the RTX 5080 Ventus 3X went from $1,139 to $1,269, while the RTX 5090 Vanguard SOC launch edition went from $2,379 to $2,689. The most expensive model MSI has listed is the Geforce RTX 5090 32G SUPRIM LIQUID SOC for $2,789, while the RTX 5080 version is $1,499.

Many of these same MSI cards are on Newegg, where they're even more expensive – up to $40 more.

MSI isn't alone in ramping up the prices. Asus' Blackwell cards have also increased. Its Astral RTX 5090 went from $2,799 to $3,079 on Newegg, while the Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB jumped from $999 to $1,264.

The situation brings to mind the height of the pandemic, when a confluence of factors resulted in an extremely limited supply of graphics cards, leading opportunistic companies to raise GPU prices far above their MSRPs.

Extra tariffs on Chinese goods are likely contributing to the price hikes, as most graphics cards are assembled and tested in China. There are also plans to impose tariffs on semiconductors from Taiwan, which could see TSMC raise the price of its semiconductor wafers by up to 15 percent this year – an increase that could ultimately be passed on to consumers.

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MSI and Asus increase Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 prices by up to $400

 
All of my infrastructure is secure and personally owned. All of my systems are up to date and blazing fast. I've spent the past two years preparing for exactly this. All I need is electricity.

Bring it on.
 
I also foresaw this and knew that this was going to happen, thus I also prepared not to pay these greedy prices for lower end products (5080 = 5060Ti).
 
That's how supply and demand work. Nvidia has only made a tiny amount of cards so you can price it much higher. After stock catches up (post Chinese New Year) the prices will come back down.
 
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Who in there right mind is gonna pay $3,000 for a GPU?
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Someone with money. If you have the money, it doesn't matter if you spend it on a vacation abroad, a large screen TV setup or a GPU. You get the money to use it for something you enjoy. If you enjoy gaming, and want to play the latest AAA games at the highest possible quality, resolution and refresh rate, then you buy a top of the line GPU.
 
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Here in netherlands, same kind site like this, peaple ask 4000€ for new 5090. And 2000€ for 5080
 
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Someone with money. If you have the money, it doesn't matter if you spend it on a vacation abroad, a large screen TV setup or a GPU. You get the money to use it for something you enjoy. If you enjoy gaming, and want to play the latest AAA games at the highest possible quality, resolution and refresh rate, then you buy a top of the line GPU.
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I’m getting tired of this massive consumption indulgence.

I expect corpos start demanding all I have up front for one-time purchase of essentials like food or meds, with a society like this.
They cry all the forums about cost of living, but the next thing they do is buy a “gadget” spending all their month’s income. Just because “they deserved it”.
And then back for crying they cant afford living.
 
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I'll do a deep clean to my rig this week, I need them to survive 2 more years at least with this rate xD. If they keep rising the price of 5000 series this month, probably AMD will raise their price too cause...why not xD
 
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I’m getting tired of this massive consumption indulgence.

I expect corpos start demanding all I have up front for one-time purchase of essentials like food or meds, with a society like this.
They cry all the forums about cost of living, but the next thing they do is buy a “gadget” spending all their month’s income. Just because “they deserved it”.
And then back for crying they cant afford living.
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- RTX 5090 is the new Avocado Toast...
 
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Like 2021 all over again.

Yeah, I recall that well. 3080 10Gb's (again, 10Gb... wtaf?) running £1800-2400 and rare as hen's teeth. Nvidia blaming the covids for supply issues while partners shipped bulk to crypto farms while setting up queuing systems and lotteries for the fan base they 'appreciate' (that made them all far bigger companies than they'd otherwise have been)

Got my 6800XT at max price, £1200, for a premium model, Sapphire Nitro+ SE, to match the upper 3080 pricing above for blows traded in raster and behind only in RT and DLSS (which had like 5 games supported then) Need I add that 6900XT's maxed £1600... with 3090's at 3-4K and even 3070's maxing £1400...

What this is like, is both 2021 and 2023... the latter being far clearer of scalpers, crypto and shady biz than the former. Still, my 7900XTX, Sapphire Nitro+ again, was at £1070 similarly less than it's premium model 4080 peers at £1850+ for all of the year and until the Supers came with a hefty price revision. Too late for me but what a nice thing for them to do, reduce the price to what it should've been anyway.

Roll on another gen, nothing new under the sun for Nvidia and co and tbh it'd end up the same whether tariffs or no... ppl will buy anyway just like they did the last time around... only this time AMD have been chased away and you're not just paying so much more for less VRAM and a single gen lead in RT but an anemic generational leap and selective super DLSS.
 
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Tariffa most likely. Tax is calculated from the product cost. Say you want to make 50 dollars on a 1000 dollar product.
With no tax that’s 1050 USD, increase the import tax with 10% - the card would then be imported at 1100 dollars, and they would demand 110 dollars tax for it, meaning you will have to compensate by raising the price to 1165 USD (11,65%) to still make 50 dollars on a card that has 1000 USD base price
 
F 'em

Not upgrading till Zen 6 so easy to say
by then AMD should be doing a high end again , the USB4/wifi 7 add on the motherboards should be cheaper

Think is people could have brought very good AMD raster cards cheap , even the 4000 S models had some pretty OK prices - was the 4080 s - something like $900. 5080 is what 10-15% faster if that for $300 more
 
You're already buying a $2,000 GPU for video games. If an extra $700 is more than pocket change for you, then you were an ***** for buying the $2,000 GPU in the first place.
 
Rtx 5000 series is just to distract competitors on perceiving that Nvidia is still interested in Gaming. When AMD said they aren't focused on high end graphics cards Nvidia is like shoot that means they are all in on ai. Blackwell gaming is just one big smoke screen hence the drivers bricking cards, fake msrp placeholders and vapor launch supply.
Current rumors the 5090 might have decent supply in September.
 
F these two. I'm not even considering Asus nor MSI for my next rig, out of spite.
The ONLY language these POS understand is MONEY.
Not to mention the numerous issues Asus has last year with warranties.
Remember when they promised "to do better"? Yeah. Look how they are "doing better": via latches that scratch your GPUs
Eff Asus.
 
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