It's Getting Hard to Recommend Any Nvidia Graphics Cards to Gamers
It's getting hard to even consider recommending any Nvidia graphics cards for gaming, as prices keep climbing into the stratosphere. After insane price hikes for the allegedly discontinued RTX 5090 and 5080, even mid-range RTX 50-series graphics cards are now nearly double their launch price.
The Blackwell generation of Nvidia graphics cards has been overpriced since its original unveiling. The RTX 5090 debuted with an MSRP of $2,000—a 25% jump over the launch price of the RTX 4090 from just a couple of years before. But it very rarely sold for that, spending most of 2025 around the $3,000 mark.
But in late 2026, prices went from crazy to utterly unprecedented. The RTX 5090 is now at least $7,000 if you can find it at all, and the RTX 5080 now regularly sells for over $2,500 and may well disappear in due course.
What are we even supposed to...
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