With the launch of the RTX 5090, Nvidia and its add-in board partners set the tone for the rest of the GeForce RTX 50-series. And by that, I mean very low stock levels and almost at none whatsoever at Nvidia's suggested retail price. However, one key partner did launch its new GPUs with some MSRP models, but they've now gone the way of the dodo.

So, you finally managed to get your hands on an RTX 5090 after the paperwork cleared on your second mortgage, only to discover that it’s giving you 10 percent fewer frames in Minecraft than you expected?

US: MSI Raider 18 HX | From $3,899.99 at Newegg You can pre-order the RTX 5090 MSI Raider at Newegg for as little as $3,899.99. That gets you an RTX 5080 GPU with a Ryzen 9 processor.

It turns out that MSI has quietly increased the retail price of its RTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPUs, including models that were supposed to launch at MSRP (via Hardware & Co). This impacts all three Blackwell GPUs released thus far: the RTX 5090,

You knew that Nvidia’s newest graphics cards wouldn’t be cheap, even if you could find one to buy. But between scalpers and tariffs, finding one at anything resembling Nvidia’s suggested retail price is all but impossible.