Finest Purchase has raised the worth of the Asus ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC to $2,099 — the primary time a significant US retailer is instantly promoting an RTX 5080 for greater than the $1,999 MSRP of the RTX 5090, VideoCardz reviews. The ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC now prices 40 p.c greater than its launch value of $1,499, and over double the $999 MSRP of the RTX 5080 Founders Version.
As VideoCardz notes, that is presently the one RTX 5080 instantly offered by Finest Purchase that’s priced over the RTX 5090’s MSRP. There are nonetheless different RTX 5080 GPUs obtainable for considerably much less, together with at different retailers — Asus is promoting the ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC for $1,899, which continues to be greater than its launch value however a bit decrease than Finest Purchase. Nevertheless, element shortages and RAM price hikes aren’t displaying any signal of slowing down any time soonso extra RTX 5080 GPUs might see related value hikes.
Finest Purchase’s value enhance additionally follows reports that Nvidia is planning to extend its GPU costs by 20 to 30 p.c, its third such value hike this 12 months. With costs for RAM and different elements rising, we’ve even seen the return of GPUs with 4GB of VRAM just like the ASRock AMD Radeon RX 9050 Challenger.