RTX 5090 price, November 2026: street prices in five countries, price history, and when renting beats buying

On 7 November 2026 the cheapest new RTX 5090 I could find was $5,599.99 in the US (an ASUS ROG Astral OC, in stock at the ASUS store, via PCPartPicker), €6,249 in Germany (Geizhals, where the next offer was €8,841), €7,949.99 in France (idealo.fr), 193,990 Kč in Czechia (about €7,967) and nothing in stock at Scan in the UK. NVIDIA launched the card at $1,999. By my calculation, renting one at $0.89 per hour costs as much as buying the US card after about 8,900 hours of use once German electricity is counted: 12 months around the clock, or more than four years at 40 hours a week.

Lowest price shown for a new card; shipping excluded. I did not place orders, so "in stock" is the seller's claim. Czech koruna at the ECB rate of 24.350 per euro (6 November 2026); the UK's PriceSpy blocked automated access, so I used one large retailer.

What does an RTX 5090 cost right now?

Between about $5,600 and €8,000 for the cheapest new card, depending on the country, and most offers sit well above the cheapest. On PCPartPicker, three cheaper US listings ($1,999.99 PNY, $4,799.99 ASUS TUF, $4,999.99 Gigabyte Windforce) were out of stock; in-stock cards ran from $5,599.99 to $11,323.39. On Geizhals, 55 models were listed and most started between €8,000 and €9,000; the €6,249 offer came from a shop with a 3.1 of 5 rating. On idealo.fr, 10 of 38 models were under €8,500. Heureka showed only six RTX 5090 models with any offers in Czechia.

The pattern across all five markets: a few low outliers, then a wall of offers near €8,000 to €9,000, which is four times NVIDIA's European starting price.

Other trackers put the US low higher because they watch fewer shops. NowInStock, which follows the large retailers but not the ASUS store, had a Gigabyte Gaming OC at Newegg for $6,549.99 as its cheapest in-stock card on 7 November 2026, and gpuprix showed $7,550 as its cheapest in-stock offer on 4 November, with a three-month median of $3,330 that still includes earlier, cheaper months. The other articles on this site quote whichever tracker they used, with its date; the $5,599.99 above is the lowest single listing I could find.

How has the RTX 5090 price changed since launch?

It has risen almost every month of 2026. TechSpot records the single cheapest in-stock card in each country each month; its figures are the best long series available.

TechSpot also lists October 2026 at €8,600 in the Netherlands and 38,000 zł in Poland, and computes the card at 370% over MSRP in the US and 262% on average across ten countries. My November US figure is one listing on the maker's own store and may not last; it does not mean the October peak has passed.

Why is the RTX 5090 so expensive?

Because few new cards are reaching shops. NVIDIA SVP Jeff Fisher told 4Gamers on 17 October 2026 that "the supply chain (production capacity) is indeed somewhat constrained" while insisting the card "has certainly not been discontinued" (VideoCardz translation). BenchLife reports that board partners no longer receive GB202 chips for the 5090 and that the supply is going to RTX PRO cards (VideoCardz, 12 October 2026); that part is a report, not an NVIDIA statement. VideoCardz adds that the card was delisted from NVIDIA's US marketplace, and NVIDIA's product page now shows a placeholder where the price was. Memory costs are part of the story but a small part of this card's price; the numbers are in the 2026 memory shortage article.

Is the RTX 5090 still good value per GB of VRAM?

No. At November prices it is one of the most expensive ways to buy GPU memory, behind only a scarce new RTX 4090.

Geizhals.de, incl. 19% VAT, checked 7 November 2026: RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5060 Ti, RTX PRO 5000, RTX PRO 6000, DGX Spark, RTX 4090. Euros per GB is my arithmetic.

The surprise is the RTX PRO 6000: with 96 GB on the same GB202 chip, it now costs less per gigabyte than a GeForce RTX 5090. What the 5090 buys is speed: 1,792 GB/s of bandwidth (Geizhals spec listing) for 37 to 52% of the RTX PRO 6000's price; the DGX Spark vs RTX PRO 6000 page covers the 96 GB option, and the DGX Spark vs RTX 5090 page covers when 128 GB of slower memory is the better buy.

Should you buy or rent an RTX 5090?

Rent unless you will keep it busy most of the day for more than a year. The break-even is the purchase price divided by what each hour of rental costs you beyond the electricity you would pay as an owner.

owner's power per hour = 0.65 kW (assumption: 575 W card at full TGP + about 75 W for the host)
German household electricity, 2026-S1 (Eurostat) = €0.3618/kWh = $0.404/kWh at 1.1165
electricity per hour   = 0.65 x $0.404 = $0.263
rent per hour          = $0.89 (excl. tax)
saving per owned hour  = $0.89 - $0.263 = $0.627

break-even hours       = $5,599.99 / $0.627 = about 8,930 hours
                       = 12.2 months at 24/7, or 4.3 years at 40 hours a week

Electricity: Eurostat nrg_pc_204, households using 2,500 to 4,999 kWh a year, all taxes, first half of 2026 (Germany €0.3618, Czechia €0.2884, France €0.2485, EU €0.2832). Exchange rates: ECB, 6 November 2026. The $1,450 host is the mid-2026 estimate on the DGX Spark vs RTX 5090 page, before further RAM price rises. The 0.65 kW figure is my assumption; if your workload draws less than the full 575 W TGP NVIDIA lists, the break-even comes slightly sooner. Resale value is left out.

Two things move the answer more than the electricity rate. First, the price you actually pay: at the typical German shop price, the break-even nearly doubles. Second, how many hours you use it. A developer at 20 hours a week needs more than eight years to reach the US card's price in rental spend. A team running a model server around the clock reaches it in about a year, and owning wins after that, if the card does not fail and you do not need it to be somewhere else.

What are the cheaper ways to get RTX 5090 performance?

• Rent by the hour. GPUwerk rents one dedicated RTX 5090 at $0.89 per hour, billed per minute, with no egress fees (RTX 5090 page). Rates at other providers are compared in the RTX 5090 cloud pricing article.
• A laptop RTX 5090. It has 24 GB at 896 GB/s, half the desktop card's bandwidth, and on 7 November Geizhals listed laptops from €3,509, below any desktop card. Measured speeds are in the RTX 5090 laptop article.
• More memory, less speed. A 128 GB DGX Spark costs less per gigabyte than any card in the table and runs models a 5090 cannot load; its price history is on the DGX Spark price page, and rented it is $0.79 per hour (pricing).

My verdict for November 2026: do not buy an RTX 5090 at €8,000 to €9,000 for part-time LLM work. If a card near $5,600 appears and you will run it around the clock for a year, buying is defensible. For everything in between, rent the hours and keep the cash.

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Sources

Every figure above is attributed to its source in the sentence or table where it appears. Pages were read on 7 November 2026 unless a date says otherwise.

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