- Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has disappeared from online retailers in the US and appears to be disappearing in other countries as well.
- In the US, retailers don’t sell stock themselves, but third-party sellers offer RTX 5090 GPUs at wildly inflated prices.
- In fact, those prices are almost equivalent to a high-end gaming PC with an RTX 5090.
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has completely disappeared from the shelves of major US retailers, and the graphics cards you can order from companies like Amazon are exclusively from third-party sellers, and almost as expensive as a full PC that has Blackwell’s flagship inside.
VideoCardz noted that Newegg is out of stock of Nvidia’s flagship Blackwell GPU, and I checked all the other major outlets in the US (like Amazon, Best Buy, and Micro Center) and found that none of these big retailers have the RTX 5090 for sale.
The only RTX 5090 models you will find are from third party sellers on these retail sites and they are very expensive and in fact are getting to the point where they are almost meaningless.
As VideoCardz points out, some of the cheapest prices you can find through price comparison sites are actually out-of-stock models, and the RTX 5090 graphics cards mentioned from third-party sellers start at around $3,500. The tech site did its scan a couple of days ago over the weekend and found that most of these flagship GPUs cost around $4,000.
Looking now, I can see one model for $3,620 on Newegg, but the others are around $4,000, and mostly ship from outside the US.
Here’s the kicker, then, that given those prices, you might as well think about buying a full PC with an RTX 5090 inside (again, from a third-party seller) because they’re not much more expensive than $4,000.
VideoCardz notes that pre-built PCs with an RTX 5090 sell at these same big US retailers starting at around $4,400, and I just discovered that at Microcenter you can buy one for $4,300. It’s an HP Omen gaming rig, and admittedly, that PC isn’t available for online ordering, but it’s marked as in stock at all brick-and-mortar stores, so if you’re close to one, you can order and go pick it up, and it’s supplied directly, not through a third-party seller.
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If you’re only paying a few hundred dollars more for a complete gaming PC, that’s pretty ridiculous (this is possible due to the prices OEMs or PC manufacturers pay for components purchased in bulk on sale, and probably some time ago, of course). Obviously, you’ll get a lot more besides the RTX 5090 graphics card, and with the aforementioned HP Omen 45L, which includes 64 GB of DDR5 RAM (now worth a small fortune in itself), a 2 TB SSD and a flagship Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor, as well as a liquid cooling system and a 1200 W power supply (and more).
If you simply stripped down and sold the main components (‘as new’ on an auction site) and kept the GPU, you could probably make a good amount of money to offset the original selling price of the PC, which could make it the cheapest way to buy an RTX 5090 (although selling the parts is a pain).
To be clear, I’m not recommending that you do this, but the fact that we’re getting to the point where a full system with an RTX 5090 isn’t much more expensive than a simple RTX 5090 alone shows how out of control high-end GPU prices have become. The fact that there is simply no RTX 5090 stock available shipping through retailers themselves is also new for 2026.
As noted by several posters in this Reddit thread, some Micro Center stores had a good collection of RTX 5090 models on physical shelves in early January, and now they’re mostly gone.
It seems that people got scared by talk of price increases for Nvidia’s flagship when January began, and realized that if they wanted an RTX 5090 before prices started (possibly) skyrocketing, they would have to act quickly, and they did exactly that, leading to the situation we have now.
As the Redditor who started the thread above notes, they’re getting “launch day vibes” with the flagship’s current situation, referring to the initial launch of the RTX 5090 when the GPU sold out in an instant and couldn’t be found anywhere.
If you’re wondering about the rest of the world, the picture in the UK isn’t so dire. In fact, Overclockers UK has quite a few RTX 5090 models in stock (shipping directly from the retailer). Scan is not the same, note, and currently only offers two models for sale; many are sold out. Pricing starts at £2700 and a good portion of the GPUs on sale are more like £3000 (or more expensive), which is quite eye-catching, but you wouldn’t expect them to be affordable, would you?
All of these prices are correct at the time of writing, but they can change quite quickly. In fact, if the US is anything to go by, these RTX 5090 boards in the UK may not last long, even at those prices.
And on a final note, I personally wouldn’t buy from any third-party marketplace sellers (in the US, UK or anywhere else), especially not with expensive technology like an RTX 5090. That’s doubly the case for anything that ships from overseas, and these sellers often ship from Asia, so if something goes wrong with the product, support and potentially having to arrange a return will be a real headache.
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