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Nvidia returns to selling Founder's Edition RTX 50-series GPUs at MSRP in person at PAX West
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PAX West is underway at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle, Washington, and Nvidia is offering a selection of its Founder's Edition GPUs at MSRP.
Key facts
- Over the past month, they've seen a sharp rise in the price of Nvidia's highest-end graphics cards in their GPU price tracker, with the $1,999 RTX 5090 now regularly listed for above $5,000
- Nvidia has RTX 5070, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090 models available while supplies last, along with packs of GeForce Trading Cards Series 1
- At the time, the median price was $4,699.99, but now, you'll spend at least $5,000 on a GPU online
- Within days, the community got DLSS 5 operational on RTX 40-series GPUs, as well as older RTX 30-series GPUs, though performance was unplayable on the latter
Summary
The GeForce RTX 30-series upgrade matrix, does your Ampere GPU need an upgrade in 2026? Nvidia's Verified Priority Access (VPA) is a lottery program for Founder's Edition cards that the company launched in 2022 for RTX 40-series GPUs. Over the past month, they've seen a sharp rise in the price of Nvidia's highest-end graphics cards in their GPU price tracker, with the $1,999 RTX 5090 now regularly listed for above $5,000. Earlier this month, however, they saw increases as large as 39% in median list price for RTX 50-series GPUs, following a series of reports about regional price increases outside of the U.S. The increases hit the middle of Nvidia's Blackwell stack the hardest, with the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB jumping by 29% and RTX 5070 jumping by 36%.