Nvidia's store drops the RTX 5080 listing as retail prices hit 2.2x MSRP

Here is what has physically changed on Nvidia’s storefront: the GeForce RTX 5080 listing and its filters are gone, the same disappearance the RTX 5090 went through not long ago.¹ Nothing in the source confirms the card is discontinued, so treat the missing page as an observation, not a verdict.

The pattern is what stands out. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 are still listed, just marked “Out of Stock,” which keeps them visible for shoppers waiting on a restock.¹ The 5090 and 5080 got no such treatment. They were removed outright.

Now the numbers. The RTX 5080 launched in January of last year at $999.¹ The cheapest one still in stock is a PNY GeForce RTX 5080 ARGB Epic-X RGB OC at $2,199.99, about 2.2 times that launch price.¹ Stock is reportedly selling through fast at various U.S. retailers, and remaining units are likely to cost more as supply thins.¹

There is talk of a 24 GB RTX 5080 on the way. That is a rumor, and it is the only outlet’s framing here, so I would not lean on it. Even if it were real, the 5080 has roughly half the CUDA cores (the chip’s parallel math units) of the 5090, a gap extra memory alone would not close.¹ Nvidia, for its part, maintains the RTX 5090 is still alive, and Tom’s Hardware has asked the company about the 5080’s status.¹

The whole story rests on Tom’s Hardware, so it is worth watching for a second confirmation. Our earlier coverage tracked the same slide from the store disappearance to prices nearing double launch.

Our read: A card that cost $999 at launch now costs more than twice that, and the official store has stopped listing it. I will not guess why. On the bench: if you need a 5080, prices are the highest they have been and still rising as stock runs down, so decide whether the premium is worth it now, not at Black Friday.

Footnotes

1. Tom’s Hardware, “Nvidia store quietly pulls the RTX 5080 following RTX 5090 removal”. Retrieved October 30, 2026. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷