Nvidia RTX 50 GPUs hit with more price hikes – up to $500

ZDNET’s cardinal takeaways

• The Nvidia RTX 5090 volition spot the biggest terms summation of $500.
• The RTX 5050 volition spot an annoying but manageable $30-50 increase.
• Graphics cards made by AMD and Intel won’t travel suit – yet.

As the AI-driven planetary representation shortage rages on, Nvidia is notifying users that its RTX 50 bid of graphics cards volition spot yet different important terms hike this week.

Nvidia ratchets up GPU prices

In August, Nvidia gave gamers and contented creators fair warning that the company’s full enactment of RTX 50 Series GPUs would get terms increases of up to a 15%. The flagship 5090 is getting the highest: a astir $500 summation connected an already eye-watering $6,000 terms tag astatine Best Buy. The lower-end 5050 and 5060 volition get overmuch much modest, if inactive grumble-worthy, $50-60 bumps, which puts the compression connected consumers already caught betwixt market hype and failed expectations.

Earlier iterations of the brand’s graphics cards, similar the RTX 40 and RTX 30 series, won’t beryllium straight affected by this decision. However, don’t beryllium amazed if you spot immoderate resellers instrumentality vantage of the concern by adding their ain terms increases oregon snapping up banal to merchantability astatine a markup connected the second-hand market.

AMD and Intel won’t beryllium affected – yet

Intel and AMD person been quiescent astir the anticipation of a terms hike connected their ain graphics cards, and neither institution plans immoderate contiguous changes successful effect to Nvidia’s decision. Not yet, anyway. As companies similar Nvidia proceed to drawback up the earthy resources needed to manufacture AI chips and pledge their GPUs and motherboards to future AI information centers alternatively than the user market, it’s apt some companies volition yet travel suit with their ain hefty increases.

Taylor Clemons

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