PC gamers continue to face increased costs of components as the DRAM shortage leads to higher prices for GPUs worldwide. Prices on GPUs have been steadily increasing since the RAM shortage started at the tail end of last year, but now there’s a better look at just how much the prices have gone up across the board.
As consumers may have guessed, it’s a lot. Although not all GPUs have been treated equally, as some have gone up in price more than others. Some considerably more. While GPU prices have fluctuated before, it likely feels more of a punch to the gut now for some gamers.
Back when the crypto mining boom caused prices for GPUs to skyrocket and scalpers peddled their hoarded stash of GPUs for ill-gotten gains, this trend eventually died off and prices stabilized. What they didn’t do was shoot back up in price just a few months later. Once prices came down, they stayed relatively stable. The same cannot be said for the RTX 50 series GPUs, unfortunately.
Worldwide GPU prices are likely to stay high for a while, with the RTX 5090 seeing the biggest price increase
With the RAM shortage going the way it is and now being suspected of extending beyond 2030, GPU prices don’t seem likely to come down anytime soon. That means it could be quite expensive to build a moderate to high-end gaming PC for a few more years yet. GPUs are among the most expensive components in a gaming PC, and the RTX 50 series, specifically the RTX 5090, has seen the largest jumps in price over the past 90 days.
A report from TechSpot has collected the data on price increases of GPUs on a global scale for the past three months. All GPU models from NVIDIA have gone up. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the RTX 5090 saw one of the biggest increases. It reportedly jumped up as much as 40%, going from $2,500 to $3,500. Comparatively, the RTX 5080 jumped as much as 43%, going from $980 back in November all the way to $1,400.
Not all models have seen drastic price increases
The only GPU models from NVIDIA that haven’t really shot up in price a whole lot are the RTX 5050, RTX 5060, and the 8GB model of the RTX 5060 Ti. All of which have gone up by only 2%-3% in the same time period. The 16GB model of the RTX 5060 Ti, meanwhile, went up by as much as 25%. So it’s clear NVIDIA is focusing on the models with more VRAM.
AMD GPUs aren’t doing much better. Most have seen as much as a 21% price increase. In short, it’s not a good time to be a gamer looking to buy a whole setup or upgrade parts.
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