News Data reveals many GPUs are still selling for 50% more than MSRP — Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 are worst offenders

[Admin]

Gamers Nexus analyzed the GPU market, revealing that all GPUs sell above MSRP on average, with 8GB variants getting the smallest markups.

Data reveals many GPUs are still selling for 50% than MSRP — Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 are worst offenders : Read more

 

[aberkae]

More like when pricing is coming down closer to MSRP steam survey reflects that people are purchasing it more. The 5090 price fell to $2499 at microcenter yesterday for the PNY oc. That's a $1000 price swing from the same retailer in 1 month time span. My 3 month prediction is becoming a reality that prices should come closer to MSRP by Black Friday.
Happy 4 th of July! 😎

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Well considering that MSRP only applies to reference editions, and most, if not all, of these are custom editions with go faster RGB and the like, MSRP doesn't apply.

 

[ezst036]

I don't understand who is buying these things.

Overpriced just to get a melting connector? Clown behavior.

 

[russell_john]

Actually it is against US and EU law for Nvidia to force an AIB to sell at MSRP which should be obvious since it is the Manufacturers SUGGESTED Retail Price

All Nvidia, AMD and Intel can control is the price of the IC and nothing else since that is the only component they make

The bad guys are the AIBs but nothing will change because they know consumers will blame Nvidia, the ONLY manufacturer that sells at MSRP, and not the AIBs themselves. Until Consumers put pressure on the ones at fault here, the AIBs then nothing will change because you continue to blame the wrong source

 

[Lamarr the Strelok]

Nope. It's nvidia's fault.It's possible the AIB's are trying to get more profit per card recently because nvidia charges a lot for their chip.AIB's didn't make a bunch of profit before. And ALL AIB's wouldn't know the specs or prices from nvidia until they would have a press conference. And nvidia has dumb rules for ALL their AIB's to follow. EVGA simply quit dealing with them because they were sick of it.
The thing I find hard to believe are the reports from some that Jensen has no respect or consideration for the companies that put the heat sinks and other components on their boards.I consider Jensen a close to genius level engineer(?) so that actually makes me sad really. But it seems true.Trillion dollar corps make the rules and have severe penalties to those that resist.

 

[Notton]

Last I heard, AIB's have a profit margin of roughly 3~5% per graphics card they sell, and it's one of the reasons EVGA left the market.
With that kind of margin, it's no wonder AIBs don't want to honor RMAs, or admit any wrong doing.

 

[blppt]

I used to upgrade every time a new generation came out. Would get the absolute top of the line model.

Still using a 3090 and a 6900XT I bought back in 2020.

 

[blppt]

More like when pricing is coming down closer to MSRP steam survey reflects that people are purchasing it more. The 5090 price fell to $2499 at microcenter yesterday for the PNY oc. That's a $1000 price swing from the same retailer in 1 month time span. My 3 month prediction is becoming a reality that prices should come closer to MSRP by Black Friday.
Happy 4 th of July! 😎

By then (Black Friday) we'll probably have the 5xxx refreshes, so the gouging cycle can begin anew, lol.

Honestly, if I was buying a new card right now, for the first time ever, I don't think I'd even consider Nvidia due to the obscene prices AND gouging on top of it. That used to be unthinkable to me---my primary box was always Nvidia GPU.

 

[Czbonner]

A lot of the American market for cards were increased by 35% because of the tarrifs on Taiwan. As much as nvidia is to blame for prices the government and current administration has fault in this as well. For example my astral 5090 was $2,799.99 at launch. It now is 3,359.99 at microcenter. That is an almost $700 increase on the $700 “Asus tax” over msrp. $1,999 (we quickly forget the titan series back in the heyday of the gtx lineup, one had an msrp of $2,999 back in 2018 and they were reference cards no AIBs)

Conclusion my price was $3,646.60 out the door $1600 over msrp paid in cash
Nvidia: $1,999 msrp
Asus: $700 increase to $2,799.99
Tarrifs: $700 35% on the $1,999 cost of a FE board.
Sales tax: $250 of that (st Louis park Minnesota)
700
700
+250 = $1650 < that is the extra cash on these current prices broken down


These current prices are the shipments that were subject to tarrifs. These subsequent price drop is probably the company getting as close to their money back as possible. Since the super variants are on their way.

 

[Lamarr the Strelok]

Ok so he has %35 on Taiwan now and China is still under the 90 day delay of %145 tariffs that are coming?I've heard countless variations of them for China. It seems the AIB's and nvidia are taking more this time around and the tariffs are of course making our prices higher.Wait, do we really have tariffs on Taiwan? That seems off.
The whole scene is a nightmare for all involved.

 

[jp7189]

For what it is worth, i was in microcenter the other day and they had ~ dozen 5090s on the shelf from several different AIBs. I didnt dig deep but I saw asus, pny, gigabyte and msi logos. All of which are sold in store at AIB's MSRP. Based on that, it seemed to me the availability crunch (and scalper profit) is coming to an end.