Resellers Score Thousands on Nvidia's 50 Series Release

5090s are listed for $5K+

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By RC Staff

01 February 2025

Key Points

Nvidia’s 50 series GPUs launched on Thursday
MSRP ranges from $550 to $2,000
Resellers are flipping most cards for double their retail price

Grab some Mt. Dew, lace up those fingerless gloves, and crack open your wallet. It’s PC gaming time. Nvidia has finally launched their latest series of GPUs, and gamers across the world filed into queues both virtual and physical for their chance to snag one. Reselling graphics cards has been a very lucrative opportunity in the past, and this drop is no different. We’re already seeing Nvidia 50 series cards flip for over double their listed MSRP, which means profits of hundreds or thousands of dollars at a time. Let’s get into it.

Nvidia 50 Series Launch Overview

It’s been an interesting start to 2025 for Nvidia. With the launch of the Chinese-developed DeepSeek LLM earlier this month, flagship AI companies like OpenAI and Nvidia saw their stock prices briefly plummet as investors began questioning their long term value.

And while Nvidia has become synonymous with AI development in the last few years, their GPUs are still incredibly relevant with video renderers and computer gamers.

The Nvidia 50 series launched earlier this week, bringing in a new era of fidelity and raytraced graphics to gamers still recovering from their last purchases. Four new cards were revealed, ranging in price from $550 to $2,000.

The headline for this generation is AI-powered frame generation. While the 40 series cards were all about raytracing, Nvidia is promising huge performance jumps this time by effectively splitting the workload between the actual graphics renderer and onboard AI interpolating new frames.

Gamers have their reservations about the tech, but that hasn’t stopped them from buying up all the available stock within seconds of the launch. Nvidia 50 series cards went up for sale on January 30 through Nvidia’s site and retailers like BestBuy and NewEgg.

Nvidia 5090 Sells Out

As with every new GPU generation, bigger numbers signal better performance. Nvidia’s 5090 cards were their premium offerings, and these were generally listed around $2,000 for a Founder’s Edition.

These cram all of the power Nvidia offered into a single package, and were by far the most popular choice for a gamer with money to blow.

As expected, they also sold out the fastest. Even at a $2,000 MSRP, we watched these cards sell out in minutes from every retailer, and quickly made up the bulk of third party listings on eBay.

Nvidia 5080 and 5070 Cards

And just like with the 40 series cards, Nvidia has not produced a 5060 card (yet). Instead, this launch consisted of the ultra-premium 5090 GPUs, followed by the 5080s for $1,000. The 5070 Ti and 5070 are slated for launch this month at $750 and $550 respectively.

Gamers on a budget are drawn to the 5070, whose AI-bolstered performance rivals previous 4090 cards at a fraction of the cost.

The 5080s sold out just as fast as the 5090s. Just because these were a lower tier offering didn’t mean they were unpopular or unprofitable.

Nvidia 50 Series Resells

Now for the fun part. If you were hoping to snag one of these cards at MSRP and stumbled across our site, prepare to get pissed off.

Right now, Nvidia 50 series GPUs are reselling for well over their listed retail prices. Many of the sales are for Nvidia 5090 cards, and we’re seeing these trade hands for about $5,000 at a time.

There’s not much of an appreciable difference between the Nvidia-designed and built Founder’s Editions cards and the third party GPUs, so don’t let the verbiage throw you.

Meanwhile, Nvidia 5080 cards are reselling for upwards of $2,000, netting sellers more than $1,000 in profit per GPU. Only a few presale listings for 5070 cards have gone up, usually selling for around $1,000.

If you decide to check eBay yourself, you might notice a handful of sold listings at below-market prices. This is a common eBay scam where the seller isn’t actually listing the product, but a picture or digital image representing the product, and hoping to shake a flustered buyer out of their money.

This is nothing new. We’ve seen it happen with other high profile releases like 2020’s PS5 and Xbox Series X. These are theoretically targeted at bots, and the scam can easily be fixed through eBay’s customer service. Still, it’s always a good idea to actually read the listing before throwing down a few grand.

And that’s pretty much the whole story as of now. This launch went how we expected it to, and now the only thing left to do is sit and wait for more. Make sure you’re subscribed to our newsletter if you want updates on Nvidia 50 series restocks. Until then, take care of yourself and have fun reselling.