ASUS Asks $5090 For RTX 5090 After Cancelling User’s Order Who Already Paid $4607 - Wccftech
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- NVIDIA cancelled a $4,429 order for a ROG Astral RTX 5090 citing a 'late' price increase, with ASUS blamed in the aftermath.
- The refunded marketplace buyer was then asked to pay $5,090 for the RTX 5090 — a roughly $500 immediate increase — while the top-spec GPU now sells for almost 2.5x its original price.
Why it matters: A buyer who locked in a $4,429 ROG Astral RTX 5090 order saw it cancelled by NVIDIA over a 'late' price increase and was then asked to pay $5,090 — about a $500 jump. The incident lays bare how sharply RTX 5090 prices have inflated to almost 2.5x original MSRP.
