Outside of camping out in front of a Micro Center location days ahead of the retail release, scoring a GeForce RTX 5090 has been a
near-impossible proposition. Even pitching a tent was not a guarantee of procuring NVIDIA's newest flagship GPU, with the US retailer reportedly having just 233 units available on launch day. The shortage has retailers
resorting to silly games (we're looking at you, Newegg). It's not clear when the GeForce RTX 5090 will be more widely available, as well as the GeForce RTX 5080. In the meantime, if you really must have one of NVIDIA's newest GPUs, there are a bunch of prebuilt systems you can shop.
The caveat is that these systems are not cheap, not by a long shot. They're also not on sale. However, they
are available, for anyone willing to pay a premium for a high-end PC with a Blackwell GPU inside. And we suppose paying through the nose for a prebuilt is a better proposition than grossly overpaying for a standalone
GeForce RTX 5090 on eBay.
One of the least expensive configs we found in stock with a GeForce RTX 5090 is this
Sentinel gaming desktop priced at
$5,599.99 at Amazon. In addition to rocking NVIDIA's newest flagship GPU, it also sports an Intel Core i9-14900KF processor (24C/32T, up to 6GHz, 32MB of L3 cache) based on Raptor Lake, 64GB of DDR5 -5600 memory, a 2TB PCIe 4 solid state drive, Wi-Fi 6E wireless connectivity, and a 360mm liquid cooling solution.
The price is greater than the sum of its parts, but for those with the cash and who are willing to pay for more immediate access to the fastest gaming card on the planet, it's an option. Here are some others...
- Sentinel Gaming PC (Ultra 9 285K, RTX 5090, 192GB DDR5, 4TB SSD/12TB HDD): $6,799
- Panorama Gaming PC (Ultra 9 285K, RTX 5090, 96GB DDR5, 2x2TB SSD): $6,393.59
- Continuum Micro Gaming PC (i9-14900KF, RTX 5090, 96GB DDR5, 2x2TB SSD): $5899.99
For the most part, pricing is significantly cheaper for gaming desktops kitted with a
GeForce RTX 5080, as they should be—the MSRP for a GeForce RTX 5080 is $1,000 less than the GeForce RTX 5090. One example is this
Skytech Azure gaming desktop that's listed for
$2,699.99 at Amazon.
It's one of several Skytech desktops to feature the 5080. In this configuration, it's paired with AMD's awesome
Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor (8C/16T, up to 5.2GHz, 96MB of L3 cache) with a fat stack of L3 cache to give gaming a boost. Other specs include 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory, 2TB of SSD storage, a 360mm all-in-one liquid cooler, and an 850W PSU with 80 Plus Gold certification.
Here are some more GeForce RTX 5080 gaming PCs...
- Panorama Gaming PC (i9-14900KF, RTX 5080, 96GB DDR5, 2x2TB SSD): $3,999.99
- Panorama Gaming PC (Ryzen 9 9900X, RTX 5080, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD): $3,599.99
- Continuum Micro Gaming PC (i9-14900KF, RTX 5080, 64GB DDR5, 2TB SSD): $3,599.99
- Panoroma Gaming PC (i7-14700KF, RTX 5080, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD): $3,346.64
- Stratos Micro Gaming PC (i7-12700KF, RTX 5080, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD): $2,999.99
- Skytech Chronos (Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 5080, 32GB DDR5, 2TB SSD): $2,949.99
- Skytech Chronos (Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 5080, 32GB DDR5, 2TB SSD): $2,699.99
- Skytech Chronos (Ultra 7 265K, RTX 5080, 32GB DDR5, 2TB SSD): $2,699.99
None of these scream 'great value' to us and we strongly suspect we'll see discounted systems in the coming weeks and months. But if you need a new system sooner than later and want it powered by NVIDIA's
Blackwell GPU architecture, these are some of the options that are out there.