RTX 5090 GPUs Sell Out at $3,700 Amid Ongoing Supply Shortages

Nvidia's flagship GPU continues to face extreme price inflation and limited availability, with no resolution to supply chain constraints in sight.

RTX 5090 GPUs priced at $3,700 were stocked at Micro Center stores in Dallas and Houston but sold out within hours, highlighting persistent demand despite inflated prices.
Third-party manufacturers like Asus and Zotac have raised prices significantly above Nvidia's $1,999 MSRP, with some models exceeding $4,000 at retail.
Scalpers are exacerbating price inflation, reselling RTX 5090 cards on eBay for prices ranging from $4,300 to $6,250.
Nvidia's focus on allocating wafer supply to higher-margin data center GPUs has limited production of consumer-grade RTX 5090 units, worsening availability issues.
Critics continue to highlight the RTX 5090's poor price-to-performance ratio, with minimal gains over the RTX 4090 despite its significantly higher cost.