News RTX 50-series GPU scalping extends to system integrators — over $3,000 for a RTX 5090

Law of economics on display, supply and demand, market is willing to bear these prices and Nvidia is not supplying anywhere near the demand. Until AMD or Intel can be competitive on the high end and be a viable alternative, Prices will remain extremely elevated. Nvidia earned it and continues to be out of eithers league.
 
So, who is PowerGPU? I've never heard of them.

Edit: Did a quick search and see that they make prebuilts. The wording of the article made it sound like they are a GPU retailer/distributor or something.
 
Law of economics on display, supply and demand, market is willing to bear these prices and Nvidia is not supplying anywhere near the demand. Until AMD or Intel can be competitive on the high end and be a viable alternative, Prices will remain extremely elevated. Nvidia earned it and continues to be out of eithers league.

The problem is Nvidia doesn't make a penny more whether the finished product sells for MSRP or twice MSRP all Nvidia makes is the money for the main chip itself. In fact it loses them money in the long run because they sell fewer GPU ICs. Nvidia doesn't make or sell heatsinks or fans or MOSFET ICs or VRM controller ICs or inductors, resistors and capacitors nor do they make PCBs and VRAM ICs. ALL they make are the main IC and nothing more. Same is true for AMD

Why there is this false belief that Nvidia magically gets a cut of the final sales is ridiculous and shows a complete lack of knowledge on how this business actually works. No wonder these people are so easily fooled by populist politicians who are really nothing but con artists
 
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Stop calling it scalping. It's trading. Legitimate and lawful trading. Without these traders the GPUs would not be available at all, at any price. Thanks to these enterprising people you can still buy the 5000 series. If you are prepared to pay their real market price, of course.
 
It's starting to go beyond scalping. If someone bought up all the oil, stockpiled it to drive up oil prices, and then resell it, it wouldn't be called scalping anymore. GPUs are becoming a commodity and the impact of this behavior, like oil, is too important to be left expressly to open markets.
 
I'm under the assumption that for every $1 Nvidia loses in GPU sales, they make $10,000 in AI sales.
because they are an ai company they just havent changed name.


"In a moment of saying the quiet part out loud, Greg Estes, the vice president of corporate marketing at Nvidia, said: “[Jensen] sent out an email on Friday evening saying everything is going to deep learning, and that we were no longer a graphics company. By Monday morning, we were an AI company. Literally, it was that fast.”"
 
Out of touch Nvidia bootlickers are blaming everyone but Nvidia. Morons who were saying real price of a 5090 is at least $25k, and Nvidia is basically a charity for selling these for $2k! Literally some have claimed that. Imagine being this out of touch.

Who showed the world that it is okay to be scalpers yourselves? Who started selling 4080 at $1200? Jumping from $700 3080? We woke up today, and decided 80 class GPUs are worth $1200 now! Their partners simply learned from the "best". Now they sell 5080 for $1000 to normilize this price increase.

Animals stop eating when they are full, but human greed is never satisfied as it is designed by God to chase infinity. So these money worshippers are never satisfied, not even with $6k 5090s.

Worst of all, we have tech reviewers shoving RT upon our throats, white washing Nvidia's ugly naked greed and blaming inflation for this disaster. PC gaming industry is on its death bed if the clown fiesta Nvidia started does not end.
 
It's starting to go beyond scalping. If someone bought up all the oil, stockpiled it to drive up oil prices, and then resell it, it wouldn't be called scalping anymore. GPUs are becoming a commodity and the impact of this behavior, like oil, is too important to be left expressly to open markets.
Yeah except 1. we’re talking GPUs for videogames here which are considered slightly less important than oil and 2. there’s no one party buying up every GPU to resell at a profit so calling it scalping seems pretty correct.