Best Buy is selling the RTX 5080 for more than the RTX 5090’s MSRP.

Best Buy has raised the price of Asus ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC to $2,099 – the first time a major US retailer is directly selling the RTX 5080 for more than the $1,999 MSRP of the RTX 5090, VideoCardz reports. The ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC now costs 40 percent more than its $1,499 introductory price, and more than double the $999 MSRP of the RTX 5080 Founders Edition.

Like VideoCardz records, this is the only RTX 5080 sold directly by Best Buy that is priced at the RTX 5090’s MSRP. There are also RTX 5080 GPUs available for much less, including from other retailers – Asus is selling the ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC for $1,899, which is still above its launch price but a little lower than Best Buy. However, the area of ​​decline is The price of RAM is rising he shows no signs of slowing down in the near futuremore RTX 5080 GPUs may see similar price increases.

Best Buy’s price hikes follow suit reports that Nvidia plans to raise its GPU prices by 20 to 30 percent, its third such increase this year. With the prices of RAM and other components on the rise, we have also seen the return of GPUs with 4GB of VRAM such as the ASRock AMD Radeon RX 9050 Challenger.