[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-rtx-5090-is-back-at-newegg-but-cheapest-is-6599":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},13183,"rtx-5090-is-back-at-newegg-but-cheapest-is-6599","RTX 5090 Is Back at Newegg, but Cheapest Is $6,599","Newegg lists 21 RTX 5090 models, yet the lowest price is $6,599 and orders are capped at one per customer.","Nvidia's RTX 5090 is back in stock at Newegg, with 21 listings, but the cheapest one costs $6,599.\n\nOf those 21 models, 11 are sold and shipped by Newegg itself. Each customer can buy only one. The $6,599 price covers two products: a water-cooled Aorus card and a card sold inside a Gigabyte AI BOX, an external enclosure (an eGPU) that lets a laptop or small PC borrow a desktop graphics card. The cheapest conventional air-cooled option is the Aorus RTX 5090 Master at $6,659.\n\nThat Master comes with a free motherboard, as do several other Gigabyte cards. The bundled board is an X870 Aorus Elite WIFI7 for AM5 processors, which the listing values at $319. Newegg sells the same board on its own for $249, so the advertised value is $70 too generous. For a buyer who needs a new AM5 board anyway, the card's effective price drops to about $6,410.\n\nThe top end is steeper. An Asus ROG Astral model, sold by a marketplace partner, costs $11,896 and is the only listing above $10,000. Many Asus, MSI and Zotac cards sit just under that line. Even a refurbished Nvidia Founders Edition (Nvidia's own-brand card) is $8,899, which is $2,300 above the $6,599 listings and $2,240 above the Master.\n\nThe context is a price that has not settled. The card launched at a sub-$2,000 price, so $6,599 is more than three times that. Rumors that Nvidia was pulling the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 from retail preceded a spike, with prices above $10,000 reportedly becoming common. A single listing over that mark is a modest improvement.\n\nThe real change is where people can buy. A major retailer with fast shipping is a different proposition from a scalper's listing, even at these prices. The one-per-customer cap suggests Newegg does not consider this supply abundant, and whether steady restocks pull prices toward the old range is the question these listings cannot answer.","[\"nvidia\",\"rtx-5090\",\"gpu-prices\",\"newegg\"]","2026-11-15T17:00:00.000Z","2026-11-15T21:00:18.873Z","2026-11-15T21:01:17.440Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Fix the arithmetic: the refurbished Founders Edition at $8,899 is $2,300 above the $6,599 cheapest listing, and $2,240 only against the $6,659 Aorus Master, so the 'cheapest new card' claim is wrong. 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