RTX 50 series GPU prices rose sharply in a June-to-August comparison of Newegg listings compiled by Tom’s Hardware, with the middle of Nvidia’s Blackwell lineup taking the clearest hit. The reported figures are median street prices among listings, not a new official price list from Nvidia, and they do not establish why sellers raised prices.
The largest move in Tom’s Hardware’s table was for the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB: its median rose from $569.99 in June to $804.99 in August, a 39% increase. The RTX 5070 moved from $659.99 to $899.99, or 36%, while the RTX 5060 went from $369.99 to $469.99, up 27%.
Which RTX 50 series GPU prices increased most?
Tom’s Hardware reported the following June-to-August changes in median Newegg prices:
- RTX 5050: $299.99 to $314.99, up 5%
- RTX 5060: $369.99 to $469.99, up 27%
- RTX 5060 Ti 8GB: $469.99 to $529.99, up 13%
- RTX 5060 Ti 16GB: $569.99 to $804.99, up 39%
- RTX 5070: $659.99 to $899.99, up 36%
- RTX 5070 Ti: $1,099.99 to $1,099.99, unchanged
- RTX 5080: $1,461.99 to $1,499.99, up 3%
- RTX 5090: $4,299.99 to $4,699.99, up 9%
The data therefore points to uneven movement rather than a uniform increase across the product stack. The RTX 5070 Ti did not move in the table, and the RTX 5080 gained 3%, while the lower and midrange models showed much larger percentage changes.
What does a median GPU listing price show?
A median is the middle price after listings are ordered from lowest to highest. Tom’s Hardware says it tracks consumer graphics-card listings it can find and uses the median to approximate a price shoppers can likely find in stock, rather than treating a limited-run low-price model as representative. That makes it a useful snapshot of retail asking prices, but it does not prove an Nvidia-wide price rise, a change in MSRP, or the cost paid by every buyer.
The August RTX 5060 median also sat well above the launch MSRPs Tom’s Hardware cited for several nearby cards: $299.99 for the RTX 5060 itself, $379.99 for the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB, and $429.99 for the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. A $469.99 RTX 5060 median is therefore above the cited launch price of both 5060 Ti variants. That is retail pricing doing retail-pricing things, which is rarely good news for a parts list.
There is a wrinkle in the report’s prose. Its table gives the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB at $804.99 and up 39%, but a later passage says $799.99 and compares it with a different $579.99 prior midpoint. Likewise, the table’s 36% RTX 5070 result uses June as the baseline, while the narrative cites a 29% increase against a separate “last survey.” The table is the consistent June-to-August comparison used here.
For comparison, Tom’s Hardware said AMD’s RDNA 4 cards had seen only single-digit percentage increases versus its prior survey, including a 5% rise for the RX 9070 XT to a $799.99 median. It discussed costly memory and tight silicon supply, but supplied no statement from Nvidia, Newegg, board makers, or distributors tying either factor to these listing changes.
Readers can review Tom’s Hardware’s pricing comparison for its methodology and model-level figures.
This story draws on original reporting from Tom's Hardware.
