Nvidia RTX 50-series demand drops in Germany — cheapest models of all but RTX 5090 priced at MSRP or lower

RTX 5070 Founders Edition
(Image credit: Nvidia)

Nvidia's RTX 50-series product stack has seen a decline in demand in the German market. According to ComputerBase, most RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 AIB partner models are selling for at or below their respective MSRPs. The only exception is the RTX 5090, which is still in high demand and is struggling to stay on store shelves.

A table of RTX 50-series pricing shows what the GPUs were selling for last week, versus what they were selling for in March: At the end of March, the cheapest RTX 5080 models were priced at €1,169, versus last week's price of €1,119 (which matches the MSRP).

ComputerBase RTX 50 series MSRP vs current prices and median prices

(Image credit: ComputerBase)

The cheapest variations of the RTX 5070 Ti were €869 at the end of March, and were down to €799 last week — €80 cheaper than the MSRP. The cheapest RTX 5070 cards, likewise, dropped from €599 to €589 (both of which are lower than the MSRP of €619). The RTX 5060 Ti 8GB and 16GB are too new to have pricing data from the end of March, but current pricing shows the cheapest versions to be right at MSRP as of last week.

Of course, these prices represent the cheapest models available — the average (median) prices of each model are, unsurprisingly, higher. The median price of the RTX 5080 was €1,430 at the end of March and has dropped to €1,389 as of last week — which still puts it at 24% higher than the card's MSRP. The median pricing of the RTX 5070 Ti was €1,005 at the end of March, and has dropped to €950 as of last week, which is just 8% higher than MSRP. And the median pricing of the RTX 5070 dropped from €687 to €654, which is 5% higher than MSRP.

Of course, some AIB partner models are still priced significantly higher than MSRP, but it's good to know that at least the average price of AIB-partner cards is fairly close to MSRP (except for the RTX 5080).

The situation in Germany appears to be better than it is in the U.S., where it's still difficult to find any RTX 50-series GPU at or near MSRP.

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Aaron Klotz
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  • Kindaian
    I'm already seeing the Swap police storming an house of someone. It's an illegal cannabis farm. Look at the thermals on the bedrooms, it's freaking hot!

    They storm the house and see a bunch of students playing online...

    Wake me when a GPU consumes less than 100 watts.
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  • emike09
    Kindaian said:
    Wake me when a GPU consumes less than 100 watts.
    Here you go: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/gt-1030/specifications/
    Reply
  • scottsoapbox
    Average and median are two different things.

    Come on, this is elementary level math.
    Reply
  • logainofhades
    Kindaian said:
    Wake me when a GPU consumes less than 100 watts.

    There are plenty if you know where to look. Anything that lacks external power is going to be limited to 75w of the PCI-E connector.

    https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#Q=0&sort=price&page=1&P=6442450944,51539607552
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  • jp7189
    I'd love to see any investigative article that discusses number of cards sold in addition to pricing. My sense is the 5090 is trickling out in numbers just this side of a paper launch. I'm sure demand is high, but I'm thinking supply is unusually low.
    Reply
  • Fleshharrower
    scottsoapbox said:
    Average and median are two different things.

    Come on, this is elementary level math.
    When I was in elementary school, a million years ago, we were taught that mean and median were two types of average. The author expressed it appropriately by stating average (median) then just referring to it as median thereafter. Also, when I was elementary school, they had just stopped using slide rules so things may have changed since then...
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  • Misgar
    Fleshharrower said:
    when I was elementary school, they had just stopped using slide rules
    I used a Thornton slide rule in my final exams at Uni. Electronic calculators were new-fangled and too expensive for the average student, so their use was banned in exams. My first calculator (kit built) cost the equivalent of US $844 today.

    https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftinas-sliderules.me.uk%2FSlide%2520Rules%2FThornton%2520130.JPG&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=c4db75ca158e5936a569a82d4e9e0c621fd76a29ea9ad8b8795832c6e19a7a61
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  • scottsoapbox
    Fleshharrower said:
    When I was in elementary school, a million years ago, we were taught that mean and median were two types of average. The author expressed it appropriately by stating average (median) then just referring to it as median thereafter. Also, when I was elementary school, they had just stopped using slide rules so things may have changed since then...
    The average is the mean (add all prices and divide by number of prices).

    Median is the 50th percentile. Which can be helpful for comparison to the mean (the number of billionaires in the US makes the average income much higher than the median income) but isn't commonly useful on small data.

    Consider GPUs priced at 800, 810, 820, 890, 900, 940.

    In the average/mean is 860. Is 820 or 890 the 50th percentile value since there is an even number of prices?
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  • nogaard777
    jp7189 said:
    I'd love to see any investigative article that discusses number of cards sold in addition to pricing. My sense is the 5090 is trickling out in numbers just this side of a paper launch. I'm sure demand is high, but I'm thinking supply is unusually low.
    Steam numbers came out and 50 series has 3 cards up while 9070s didn't even make the list. AMD beating Nvidia on supply is complete BS.
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  • nogaard777
    Kindaian said:
    Wake me when a GPU consumes less than 100 watts.
    If you can't afford more than a 100w GPU draw you're too poor to be playing PC games to begin with.
    Reply