RTX 5090 Lowest In-Stock Price 262% Over MSRP in 10 Countries

The cheapest in-stock NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 now sits 262% above its $1,999 launch price on average across 10 countries, and 370% above it in the United States, where the lowest listing was $9,400 in October, TechSpot reported in its Q4 2026 pricing survey published Nov. 2.

TechSpot's global figure is a normalized average of $7,240. The US price is up 36% from $6,890 in September and 2.7 times the $3,500 TechSpot recorded in February. Local lows in October were 8,000 euros in Germany, 5,600 pounds in the UK and 8,600 euros in the Netherlands. Canada barely moved, up 3% to C$8,340. Across all gaming GPUs in its sample, TechSpot found prices up 11% in a month, after rises of 15% in August and 7% in September, which it puts at 35% over three months.

RTX 5090 Retail vs Resale: What Each Tracker Measures

The percentages below are not interchangeable, because the trackers measure different things.

TechSpot records one number per card per country: the lowest price it can verify as in stock, taken from price-comparison sites. It converts the dollar MSRP into each local currency with tax and compares. It warns that these are often base models sold by a single retailer, so a premium model costs more.

GPU Poet, an independent tracker, measures the resale and new-listing market instead. Its latest report, titled October but built on September data, puts the best RTX 5090 resale deal at $4,795, the average of the three cheapest eBay and Amazon listings. That is 2.4 times MSRP, or 140% over, and up 23% from August. New RTX 5090 cards on Amazon averaged $5,258 in September against $4,262 in August, though GPU Poet says Amazon listings were fewer that month and do not state condition. Of the 81 GPUs it tracks with listings in both months, 59 rose.

The two sets therefore describe different months, different channels and different geographies. A 140% resale premium in September and a 370% US retail premium in October do not contradict each other, and neither should be averaged with the other. GPU Poet also notes that its data excludes retail stores, and that a restock at MSRP at a chain such as Micro Center or Best Buy would beat every price in its table.

Memory Is Only Part of the RTX 50 Price Story

Voltgrid has reported the memory side of this, including rising GDDR6 costs behind AMD's second Radeon increase. TechSpot argues that memory does not explain everything. The RTX 5070 Ti and the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB both carry 16GB of GDDR7 at the same speed, yet the 5070 Ti rose about $150 more. For the RTX 5080, now $2,200 at its US low, up 39% in a month and 120% over its $999 MSRP, TechSpot says the 16GB of GDDR7 has not become $700 more expensive. It lists price gouging, demand for AI workloads and the absence of RTX 5090 stock as possible factors. Those are TechSpot's assessments, not measured causes.

Voltgrid has tracked the same squeeze in the Nov. 3 report of RTX 50 price rises of up to $500 and in the RTX 5080's removal from NVIDIA's store.

What Is Not Confirmed on RTX 5090 and RTX 5080

Reports that the RTX 5090 is effectively discontinued coincide with the price jump. NVIDIA denies it, and TechSpot says its own view is that the card has been effectively out of reach for gamers for months. NVIDIA has not changed the $1,999 list price in anything reviewed here.

TechSpot also relays a rumor that NVIDIA will replace the 16GB RTX 5080 with a 24GB model in the first quarter of 2027, and says retail sources expect wholesale RTX 5080 prices to rise further. Neither is confirmed. TechSpot adds that it has not yet seen peak graphics card pricing.