"Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5080 is selling for $500 or more over the base $1,000 launch price on sites like Newegg. The RTX 5090 pricing could best be described as a travesty. Some models are selling for close to $5,000. The card was supposed to settle at a $2,000 base price at launch. The ongoing RAM shortage, which has previously ballooned the price of consumer DRAM (dynamic random access memory) and PC storage units from SSDs to HDDs, has no sign of stopping any time soon."