Yikes: MSI and Asus have been spotted increasing prices for Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5080 and 5090 graphics cards by as much as $300, depending on the model. GPU shoppers noticed price increases in MSI's online store on Wednesday.

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards are currently experiencing significant challenges due to an imbalance between supply and demand. Global interest in these high-end GPUs has quickly exhausted initial inventories,

Anyone who has been around in PC gaming for a long time will know that every time a new high-end graphics card gets launched, supply is never enough to meet demand. In the case of the GeForce RTX 5090, board partner MSI says that its cards will have limited availability and it's down to an insufficient number of GB202 GPUs from Nvidia.