In just a few months, many powerful Nvidia graphics cards are out of stock or facing exorbitant price hikes. The situation is especially bad for the GeForce RTX 5090.
It took only a few months, but the graphics card market has turned from relatively healthy to horrible as the worsening memory shortage has led to price hikes and scant supply.
In September and October, we did price checks at major retailers and noticed that the GPU market had mostly stabilized. In some cases, vendors were even offering attractive discounts.
Unfortunately, the market has once again gone off the rails. The demand for AI data centers has led to a memory crunch that’s been strangling the PC supply chain, including for graphics cards, which was evident in our latest price check.
