Best Buy Is Selling An Rtx 5080 For More Than The Rtx 5090’s Msrp

Best Buy has raised nan value of nan Asus ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC to $2,099 — nan first clip a awesome US retailer is straight trading an RTX 5080 for much than nan $1,999 MSRP of nan RTX 5090, VideoCardz reports. The ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC now costs 40 percent much than its motorboat value of $1,499, and complete double nan $999 MSRP of nan RTX 5080 Founders Edition.

As VideoCardz notes, this is presently nan only RTX 5080 straight sold by Best Buy that’s priced complete nan RTX 5090’s MSRP. There are still different RTX 5080 GPUs disposable for importantly less, including astatine different retailers — Asus is trading nan ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC for $1,899, which is still much than its motorboat value but a spot little than Best Buy. However, constituent shortages and RAM value hikes aren’t showing immoderate motion of slowing down any clip soon, truthful much RTX 5080 GPUs could spot akin value hikes.

Best Buy’s value summation besides follows reports that Nvidia is readying to summation its GPU prices by 20 to 30 percent, its 3rd specified value hike this year. With prices for RAM and different components rising, we’ve moreover seen nan return of GPUs pinch 4GB of VRAM for illustration nan ASRock AMD Radeon RX 9050 Challenger.