As far as the memory shortage is concerned, we're yet to see much light at the end of the tunnel. Case in point, there's mutterings about yet another hardware price spike, and this time it may mean the already pretty expensive Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU could go up in price by as much as $300.
To be clear, no consumer-facing increase has yet been announced. However, a source on Board Channels reports that add-in-card (AIC) partners in China have been warned of a 2,000 RMB (or $300) price increase. If true, this increase will likely trickle down into a sharp uptick that PC gamers will feel as well. Reportedly, the price increase affects both the RTX 5090 and its China-exclusive RTX 5090D V2 variant, which enjoys 24GB of GDDR7 memory (via VideoCardz).
For comparison's sake, the model of the RTX 5090 available to those with the cash in the UK and US enj...
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