RTX 5090 sold out across U.S. retailers with resale prices hitting $9,500

NVIDIA (NVDA) RTX 5090 graphics cards have vanished from official inventories at major U.S. retailers like Newegg and Amazon. Third-party sellers are listing the cards at prices ranging from $6,449 to over $9,500, significantly higher than the $1,999 MSRP. The shortage is driven by AI developers purchasing the cards to build cost-effective AI servers, as the RTX 5090 offers better performance-to-price value than enterprise-grade alternatives. Supply constraints are further exacerbated by manufacturers prioritizing high-profit HBM and server memory over consumer-grade GDDR7, with AI data centers expected to consume 70% of global memory output by 2026.