- Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has disappeared from online retailers in the US, and appears to be vanishing in other countries too
- In the US, retailers aren’t selling any stock themselves, but third-party sellers are offering RTX 5090 GPUs with hugely inflated prices
- Those price tags are, in fact, almost equivalent to a full high-end gaming PC with an RTX 5090
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has completely disappeared from the shelves of major retailers in the US, and the graphics cards that you can order from the likes of Amazon are exclusively from third-party sellers – and almost as pricey as a full PC that has the Blackwell flagship inside.
VideoCardz noticed that Newegg doesn’t have any stock of Nvidia‘s Blackwell flagship GPU, and I’ve checked all the other major outlets in the US (such as Amazon, Best Buy, and Micro Center), finding that none of these big retailers have the RTX 5090 on sale themselves.
The only RTX 5090 models you’ll find are from third-party marketplace sellers on these retail sites, and they are seriously pricey – and in fact, they’re getting to the point where they almost don’t make sense.
As VideoCardz notes, some of the cheaper prices you might find via the likes of price comparison sites are actually out of stock models, and the mentioned RTX 5090 graphics cards from third-party sellers start from around $3,500. The tech site did its scan a couple of days back at the weekend, and found that most of these flagship GPUs sat at around $4,000.
Looking now, I can see one model for $3,620 on Newegg, but the others are around the $4,000 mark – and these are mostly all shipping from outside the US.
Here’s the kicker, then, which is that given those price tags, you may as well think about buying a full PC with an RTX 5090 inside (again, from a third-party seller) because they aren’t that much more expensive than $4,000.
VideoCardz observes that prebuilt PCs with an RTX 5090 are being sold at these same big US retailers start from around $4,400 – and I just spotted that at Microcenter you can pick one up for $4,300. it’s an HP Omen gaming rig, and admittedly, that PC is not available for online order, but it is marked as in stock at all bricks-and-mortar stores, so if you’re near one, you can order and go pick it up – and it’s supplied direct, not via a third-party seller.
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If you’re only effectively paying a few hundred dollars more for a full gaming PC, that’s pretty ridiculous (this is made possible due to the prices that OEMs, or PC builders, pay for components bought in bulk with deals – and likely some time ago, of course). As obviously you’re getting a lot more in addition to the RTX 5090 graphics card, and with the mentioned HP Omen 45L, that includes 64GB of DDR5 RAM (now worth a small fortune in itself), a 2TB SSD, and an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K flagship processor, as well as a liquid cooling system and a 1200W power supply (plus more besides).
If you just stripped out and sold the core components (‘as new’ on an auction site), and kept the GPU for yourself, you could likely make a good chunk of cash to offset the original asking price of the PC, potentially making this the cheapest way to purchase an RTX 5090 (albeit selling the parts is a headache).
To be clear, I’m not advocating that you do this, but the fact that it’s getting to the point where a full system with an RTX 5090 is not a great deal more costly than a plain RTX 5090 on its own shows how out-of-whack high-end GPU pricing has got. The fact that there’s simply no RTX 5090 stock available which is shipped via the retailers themselves is a new development for 2026, too.
As noted on this Reddit thread by multiple posters, some Micro Center stores had a fair collection of RTX 5090 models on physical shelves at the start of January, and these have now mostly disappeared.
It seems to be the case that folks were spooked by the talk of price rises for the Nvidia flagship as January began, and realized that if they wanted an RTX 5090 before price tags started to (possibly) shoot up, they’d have to move fast – and they did exactly that, leading to the situation we have now.
As the Redditor who started the above thread observes, they are getting ‘launch day vibes’ with the current situation of the flagship, referring to the initial release of the RTX 5090 when the GPU sold out in a flash, and couldn’t be gotten anywhere.
If you’re wondering about the rest of the world, the picture in the UK isn’t as dire. In fact, Overclockers UK has quite a few RTX 5090 models in stock (shipping directly from the retailer). Scan isn’t the same, mind, and is only offering two models for sale currently – a lot are sold out. Pricing starts at £2,700, and a good deal of the GPUs on sale are more like £3,000 (or more expensive), which is pretty eye-watering, but you didn’t expect they would be affordable, did you?
All these prices are correct at the time of writing, but may change quite swiftly. Indeed, if the US is anything to go by, these RTX 5090 boards in the UK may not hang around for 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 elsewhere), especially not with an expensive piece of tech like an RTX 5090. That’s doubly the case for anything being shipped 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 is going to be a real headache.
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