Hear that? It’s the sound of a million gamers waiting for the release of Nvidia’s next-gen RTX cards with bated breath. You’ll be able to part with your hard-earned cash in a few days, and Newegg and Best Buy are first in line to take it. The retailers already have listings for dozens of RTX 5090 and 5080 cards — and some of them even have prices.
Go ahead and check out the early RTX 50 listings on Newegg and Best Buy. The latter has prices, most notably the right-on-the-money RTX 5080 Founder’s Edition. FE cards are sold direct from Nvidia with no partner branding or upgraded elements, and the RTX 5080 is hitting the promised $1,000 launch price (with a free month of Discord Nitro, woo).
Other RTX 5080 variants from Gigabyte are also on offer, topping out at the Xtreme Waterforce 16GB model, which costs $1,400 and comes with an included radiator and triple-fan cooling setup. Very fancy and very pricey, but still well below the $2,000 starting price for the RTX 5090. Only the Founder’s Edition of that card is up on Best Buy’s site so far, though a few pre-built desktops are shown.
Newegg is showing both RTX 5090 and 5080 variants, with over 40 different models from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Zotac, and PNY. Prices for these specific cards aren’t available yet, and Nvidia’s Founders Edition cards are notably absent from the lineup. According to a Newegg press release, they go on sale in the US on Thursday, January 30th at 9 AM Eastern (6 AM Pacific) along with pre-built PCs with the new GPUs.
In an echo of… well, pretty much every Nvidia release of the last decade, the company is already warning that cards might go out of stock quickly. It says that it’s working with partners to get as many GPUs on shelves as possible, but please resist the urge to enrich scalpers. Elden Ring will still be there in a couple of months. Oh, and don’t forget to check out PCWorld’s review of the RTX 5090 right here.
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