NVIDIA RTX 50 Series graphics cards are currently experiencing massive price increases in Japan. As a result, there is a much larger price difference with US prices. For example, the price difference with Amazon prices in the US is the highest for the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB at 41.10%. For the RTX 5080, the average price increase is 12.71%. Why is this important? Because those in different regions have to pay much more for the same hardware or wait to see if there are any stock changes.
Memory shortages and AI demand drive regional price disparities
Price inflation has also affected several NVIDIA RTX 50 series models like 5060 Ti, 5070 Ti, 5080, and 5090. According to NVIDIA, these increases in prices are caused by memory chip shortages and high demand for AI computing. Especially for high-end GPUs, these shortages are quite severe. This is because high-end GPUs are being allocated to data centers for data center use rather than for the gaming market.
It is reported that NVIDIA will stop producing RTX 5090 to reallocate production capacity for AI data center GPUs. This is part of the strategy to reduce the availability of high-end consumer graphics cards. It also adds another factor to the availability of low-end GPUs. There are already people selling RTX 5090 for nearly $10,000. This is because the supply is extremely scarce in some places.
Of course, we have also been monitoring the price trends of NVIDIA RTX 50 series graphics cards. For example, we have also written about NVIDIA RTX 5090 prices increase 132% in Germany. Currently, the situation in Japan is similar. There are also much higher prices than normal prices in the US. Users should expect a lot of fluctuations as the GPU market faces supply issues.
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