Asus and MSI were among the first to increase prices in their U.S. online stores, although the GPUs are out of stock.

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards are currently experiencing significant challenges due to an imbalance between supply and demand. Global interest in these high-end GPUs has quickly exhausted initial inventories,

MSI and Asus have raised the prices of Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 gaming GPUs by hundreds of dollars, just a week after the launch.

I don’t think any RTX 5090 is worth 70% more than MSRP, but that’s what you’ll pay for the priciest flagship Nvidia GPU.

Many users reported stability issues with the newly released GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards. At the time, users could not determine the cause of the black screen and GPU initialization issues after installing the latest driver,

NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs come at a high cost on top of being difficult to acquire due to low stock, and it seems tariffs are to blame for the increased cost. That’s according to Newegg, one of the largest online retailers in the US for computers and computer hardware.