I really hope you weren't considering a GPU upgrade this year, as Nvidia may raise the price of the already pricey RTX 5090 by as much as $300

Hardware Graphics Cards I really hope you weren't considering a GPU upgrade this year, as Nvidia may raise the price of the already pricey RTX 5090 by as much as $300 News By Jess Kinghorn published 15 May 2026 Memory is proving an expensive problem. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Future) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 2 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter As far as the memory shortage is concerned, we're yet to see much light at the end of the tunnel. Case in point, there's mutterings about yet another hardware price spike, and this time it may mean the already pretty expensive Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU could go up in price by as much as $300.To be clear, no consumer-facing increase has yet been announced. However, a source on Board Channels reports that add-in-card (AIC) partners in China have been warned of a 2,000 RMB (or $300) price increase. If true, this increase will likely trickle down into a sharp uptick that PC gamers will feel as well. Reportedly, the price increase affects both the RTX 5090 and its China-exclusive RTX 5090D V2 variant, which enjoys 24GB of GDDR7 memory (via VideoCardz).For comparison's sake, the model of the RTX 5090 available to those with the cash in the UK and US enjoys 32 GB GDDR7. With that much memory, rumours of a price increase are far from surprising, especially as the PS5 has already seen a significant price increase for similar reasons. The price of the Nintendo Switch 2 will also increase later this year. The Steam Machine is still hoping to launch this year, too, but who knows at what price amid the memory supply crisis. At the very least, there's no word yet on similar price increases for Nvidia's other 50-series cards.Latest Videos From Current pricing for the RTX 5090 isn't really in the ballpark of affordable to begin with. If you've been keeping up with Nick's graphics card price watch, you'll note that a reasonably priced RTX 5090 hasn't featured in some time. You may also have seen B [Conteúdo truncado para controle de custo.]