NVIDIA pulls the RTX 5080 from its US store two weeks after the RTX 5090
The fastest card left on NVIDIA's US marketplace is now the RTX 5070 Ti, while RTX 5080 cards sell for over $2,000 at some US retailers against a $999 MSRP.
NVIDIA's US online marketplace stopped listing the GeForce RTX 5080 on October 30, 2026, roughly two weeks after the RTX 5090 disappeared from the same store. Partner-built RTX 5080 cards are gone too, and the store's GPU filter now tops out at the RTX 5070 Ti, followed by the RTX 5070, RTX 5060 Ti, RTX 5060 and RTX 5050.
Why the listing matters
NVIDIA's own storefront is where buyers go to find Founders Edition cards at launch MSRP, so a missing listing is the clearest public sign that supply has dried up. The RTX 5090 dropped off on October 15, then briefly came back with a single model priced at $5,599, about 2.8 times its $1,999 launch price, before vanishing again.
The RTX 5080 was already heading the same way. Before it left the marketplace, some US retailers were asking more than $2,000 for a card that launched at $999, which put a 16 GB RTX 5080 above the RTX 5090's original launch price. Wccftech points out that marketplace listings come and go with stock, so a missing card is not proof of discontinuation, and NVIDIA has not announced an end-of-life date.
The memory squeeze behind it
The backdrop is the same GDDR7 shortage pushing every graphics card price up this year. In Japan, the cheapest RTX 5080 rose from ¥198,800 at its January 2025 launch to about ¥320,000 in late October 2026. In Malaysia, Lowyat put the average RTX 5080 at around RM8,500 in mid-October, so SEA builders are paying well above the old MSRP as well.
What comes next
The timing lines up with channel reports that NVIDIA is preparing an RTX 5080 with 24 GB of GDDR7, built from eight 3 GB memory modules on the existing 256-bit bus. Board Channels claims that card could arrive between December 2026 and January 2027, though NVIDIA has confirmed nothing. For players chasing high frame rates at 4K in demanding releases such as Black Myth: Wukong or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, the gap matters. Until a replacement shows up, the RTX 5070 Ti is the top card NVIDIA itself sells in the US, and anyone shopping for RTX 5080-class performance is dealing with third-party stock at inflated prices.
Source: TechPowerUp; Wccftech; BigGo Finance; Lowyat.NET.
