Damaged/Faulty RTX 5090 sells for over £4,000 in the UK
Damaged RTX 5090 graphics cards are selling for insane prices in the UK
Damaged or faulty Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics cards have started selling for insane prices in the second-hand market. Earlier today, two damaged/faulty GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock graphics cards sold for prices more than double Nvidia’s official MSRP for the RTX 5090. One of the faulty GPUs sold for over £4,000.
What’s crazier is that these GPU prices aren’t that different to new RTX 5090 GPUs. In the UK, Scan Computers sells the same GPU new for £4,299.98, and it’s in stock. Even if these GPUs can be easily repaired, one of these faulty GPUs sold for less than £200, under the same GPU’s current retail cost.
Both GPUs were listed as having warped or cracked PCBs, with one having a cracked PCIe connector. If these GPUs can be repaired, users could access RTX 5090 performance for less than their standard retail cost. That said, at these prices, the savings aren’t that significant.
(It wasn’t long ago that new RTX 5090 GPUs sold for lower prices (Examples 1, 2))
The RTX 5090 is no longer a gaming GPU; it’s too expensive for that
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 now sells for more than double its MSRP. With this pricing, the GPU can no longer be considered a “gaming” product. Even at MSRP, the GPU is ludicrously expensive, but now it’s reached insane levels. Today, we can’t find an RTX 5090 available in the UK for under £4,000. Most PC builders wouldn’t spend that much on an entire PC, let alone just a graphics card.
So what happened to Nvidia’s RTX 5090? Earlier this month, images emerged of a Chinese AI firm using RTX 5090 GPUs within AI servers. This has reportedly spiked demand for the graphics card, inflating its price to its current levels. If this is true, this explains why Nvidia’s gaming-oriented RTX 5090 now has workstation-grade pricing. It is literally being used for AI servers, and now the retail price reflects this.
Right now, another faulty RTX 5090 is for sale on eBay with a “burned PCB” that “looks to have set on fire“. It currently has a bid of £1,220. Will it also sell for over £3,000? We will update this article when we find out.
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