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Best Buy is selling an RTX 5080 for more than the RTX 5090’s MSRP
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TL;DR
- Best Buy is selling the Asus ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC for $2,099, which is more than the $1,999 MSRP of the RTX 5090.
- This price represents a 40% increase from the GPU's launch price of $1,499 and over double the $999 MSRP of the RTX 5080 Founders Edition.
- Component shortages and RAM price hikes are contributing factors to rising GPU prices.
- Nvidia is reportedly planning to increase its GPU prices by 20-30%, marking its third price increase this year.
- The trend of rising prices has also led to the return of GPUs with lower VRAM, such as the ASRock AMD Radeon RX 9050 Challenger with 4GB of VRAM.