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New retail: RTX 5090 32GB and current-generation consumer cards (Amazon.com list)

nvidia · US (amazon.com)
This record is a draft. Not yet verified. Provisional. Treat every number on this page as provisional.

Fields

id
supply/new-retail-rtx-5090-amazon
Kind
regional-reseller
Vendor
nvidia
Region
US (amazon.com)
Channels
reseller
Price (USD)
6,549.99
Price basis
NEW-RETAIL list prices, sealed retail cards, USD, observed 2026-10-03, single channel (amazon.com via a price-table aggregator). Excludes tax/shipping as quoted by Amazon PERISHABLE-FIGURE STAMP (added 2026-10-04, uniform across data/supply/ so it is greppable). PRICE CLASS: ASKING price captured from a live listing or product page - the price at which a seller advertises the item right now. NOT a sold/completed transaction price, NOT an auction result and NOT a dealer cost; for used or refurbished parts the gap between ask and realised is typically wide. OBSERVED: 2026-10-03 RE-VERIFY BY: 2027-01-04 - the repo's quarterly re-verification bar. After that date this figure is presumed drifted and must be re-checked against its source before it is quoted again. A price without its observation date is noise; this stamp exists so a reader can tell a fresh figure from a stale one without reading prose. UNIT: NEW-RETAIL list prices, sealed retail cards, USD, observed 2026-10-03, single channel (amazon.com via a price-table aggregator) READING RULE: No further perishable flag is published for this figure.
Availability
in-stock
Lead time source
published
Lead time basis
NEGATIVE, DELIBERATELY NOT STRUCTURAL: no lead time in weeks is printed for these SKUs. It is not that no vendor in the chain publishes one - CDW does, and it is recorded on cdw-enterprise as 'published' - but this channel routes to 'request a quote' or shows a stock count instead, so the number exists elsewhere in the market and is not surfaced here. Checked 2026-10-04 per source spl-negative-no-oem-publishes-lead-time.
Export controlled
no
Export control regime
EAR 3A001 or EAR99 (below the 3A090.a TPP / performance-density thresholds) + EAR 744.23 (Entity List) + EAR 744.6 (Unverified / MEU lists)
Export control note
MECHANISM: the part falls BELOW the ECCN 3A090.a/.b TPP and performance-density thresholds, so the advanced-computing licence regime, its case-by-case China/Macau carve-out and its D:5 screening do NOT attach. What remains is the general EAR plus destination-country import rules and screening of the consignee and its ultimate parent against the Entity, Unverified and MEU lists. NO LICENCE REQUIRED for the sale itself; the screening is a party-listing check, not a performance-threshold check. The binding ECCN determination for any specific part is the exporter's own classification, not this record.
notes
OBSERVATION DATE 2026-10-03. Source sup-price-gpuquicklist-amazon. THIS IS THE ONLY GENUINE NEW-RETAIL BAND IN THE SLICE, and it is a single-channel list price, not a market index - state that whenever this record is cited. BAND: RTX 5090 32GB n=2 at $6,549.99 and $6,749.99. n=2 is the entire sample and it is below this repo's bar for treating a median as meaningful, so read the pair, not the midpoint. Supporting bands from the same table (recorded, not used for price_usd): RTX 5080 n=10, $1,549.99-$1,803.63; RTX 5070 Ti n=0 on this table; RTX 5070 n=1 $856.99. CROSS-CHECK, kept as a contested pair rather than resolved: the secondary-market ASKING band for the RTX 5090 (sup-price-new-retail-rtx-4090-3090-consumer sibling and the PicClick 5090 pull) centred ~$6,500 over n=47, which matches this new-retail list to within rounding. For the 5090 the new-retail and secondary-asking markets are the same price; that is NOT true of the 4090 or 3090, where secondary asks run at or above new list. Note the aggregator also carries two Renewed rows (RTX 3080 $579.99, RTX 3090 $1,899.99) - refurbished, explicitly NOT used-market, and the 3090 renewed figure sits ABOVE the used 3090 asking median of $1,514, which is a concrete instance of a renewed unit outbidding a used one. EXPORT CONTROL (2026-10-04, mechanism-level; source spl-eccn-3a090-ccl): consumer gaming cards of this generation generally do NOT meet the 3A090.a TPP/performance-density parameters and fall under ECCN 3A001 or are designated EAR99, i.e. the advanced-computing licence regime with its case-by-case and D:5 screening does not attach to them. This is exactly what makes export status a PER-PART property rather than a per-vendor one: a GeForce RTX 5090 and a datacenter/professional part from the same vendor and the same process generation can carry entirely different control status. Recorded as false for that reason, NOT because the part is unregulated - it remains subject to the EAR generally, to destination-country import rules, and to screening of the consignee and its ultimate parent against the Entity, Unverified and MEU lists (15 CFR part 744). The binding ECCN determination for any specific SKU is the exporter's own classification, which no public vendor page states. LEAD TIME: null, and deliberately so. A marketplace or big-box reseller publishes STOCK STATE, not a lead time - where this record shows in-stock that means the listing was available on the observation date, and where it shows backorder no week window is published at all. Converting one into the other would be an invention. The one exception in the whole chain is CDW, which does print windows (source spl-cdw-published-lead-times-gpu-2026-10); note that even there the scarcest SKUs - the RTX PRO 6000 96GB cards and DGX Spark - read 'Item Backordered' with NO estimate, so scarcity and lead time are inversely related in what distributors actually publish. Probe log in source spl-negative-no-oem-publishes-lead-time. | PRICE-ATTRIBUTION FIX 2026-10-11 (crawler/w17-dc-capex): accelerator_ids previously listed nvidia-rtx-5070-ti. The price_usd above is the RTX 5090 32GB list band that price_basis NAMES and this record's own notes state 'RTX 5070 Ti n=0 on this table' - no 5070 Ti price exists here. The id was over-attributed under RULE A of gotcha value-cheapest-usable-vram-and-what-it-actually-runs and has been removed. It was the source of the '$6,550 RTX 5070 Ti' capex in that gotcha. NOTE: the nvidia-rtx-5080 id on this record carries the identical defect (the $6,549.99 is the 5090's price; the notes only give a 5080 supporting band). | PRICE-ATTRIBUTION FIX 2026-10-12 (repo-hygiene wave, ledger D12 takeover): removed nvidia-rtx-5080 - the identical defect the 2026-10-11 fix flagged. The $6,549.99 is the RTX 5090's list band; the 5080's only figure in this record is the $1,549.99-$1,803.63 supporting band in notes, which is not a price_usd. After this removal the 5080 has no non-cloud purchase price in the corpus (its batch-1 decode benchmark local-rtx-5080-32b-q4-decode is now a benchmark without a price). Same RULE A class as the 5070 Ti removal, per gotcha value-cheapest-usable-vram-and-what-it-actually-runs.

Notes

OBSERVATION DATE 2026-10-03. Source sup-price-gpuquicklist-amazon. THIS IS THE ONLY GENUINE NEW-RETAIL BAND IN THE SLICE, and it is a single-channel list price, not a market index - state that whenever this record is cited. BAND: RTX 5090 32GB n=2 at $6,549.99 and $6,749.99. n=2 is the entire sample and it is below this repo's bar for treating a median as meaningful, so read the pair, not the midpoint. Supporting bands from the same table (recorded, not used for price_usd): RTX 5080 n=10, $1,549.99-$1,803.63; RTX 5070 Ti n=0 on this table; RTX 5070 n=1 $856.99. CROSS-CHECK, kept as a contested pair rather than resolved: the secondary-market ASKING band for the RTX 5090 (sup-price-new-retail-rtx-4090-3090-consumer sibling and the PicClick 5090 pull) centred ~$6,500 over n=47, which matches this new-retail list to within rounding. For the 5090 the new-retail and secondary-asking markets are the same price; that is NOT true of the 4090 or 3090, where secondary asks run at or above new list. Note the aggregator also carries two Renewed rows (RTX 3080 $579.99, RTX 3090 $1,899.99) - refurbished, explicitly NOT used-market, and the 3090 renewed figure sits ABOVE the used 3090 asking median of $1,514, which is a concrete instance of a renewed unit outbidding a used one.

EXPORT CONTROL (2026-10-04, mechanism-level; source spl-eccn-3a090-ccl): consumer gaming cards of this generation generally do NOT meet the 3A090.a TPP/performance-density parameters and fall under ECCN 3A001 or are designated EAR99, i.e. the advanced-computing licence regime with its case-by-case and D:5 screening does not attach to them. This is exactly what makes export status a PER-PART property rather than a per-vendor one: a GeForce RTX 5090 and a datacenter/professional part from the same vendor and the same process generation can carry entirely different control status. Recorded as false for that reason, NOT because the part is unregulated - it remains subject to the EAR generally, to destination-country import rules, and to screening of the consignee and its ultimate parent against the Entity, Unverified and MEU lists (15 CFR part 744). The binding ECCN determination for any specific SKU is the exporter's own classification, which no public vendor page states.

LEAD TIME: null, and deliberately so. A marketplace or big-box reseller publishes STOCK STATE, not a lead time - where this record shows in-stock that means the listing was available on the observation date, and where it shows backorder no week window is published at all. Converting one into the other would be an invention. The one exception in the whole chain is CDW, which does print windows (source spl-cdw-published-lead-times-gpu-2026-10); note that even there the scarcest SKUs - the RTX PRO 6000 96GB cards and DGX Spark - read 'Item Backordered' with NO estimate, so scarcity and lead time are inversely related in what distributors actually publish. Probe log in source spl-negative-no-oem-publishes-lead-time. | PRICE-ATTRIBUTION FIX 2026-10-11 (crawler/w17-dc-capex): accelerator_ids previously listed nvidia-rtx-5070-ti. The price_usd above is the RTX 5090 32GB list band that price_basis NAMES and this record's own notes state 'RTX 5070 Ti n=0 on this table' - no 5070 Ti price exists here. The id was over-attributed under RULE A of gotcha value-cheapest-usable-vram-and-what-it-actually-runs and has been removed. It was the source of the '$6,550 RTX 5070 Ti' capex in that gotcha. NOTE: the nvidia-rtx-5080 id on this record carries the identical defect (the $6,549.99 is the 5090's price; the notes only give a 5080 supporting band). | PRICE-ATTRIBUTION FIX 2026-10-12 (repo-hygiene wave, ledger D12 takeover): removed nvidia-rtx-5080 - the identical defect the 2026-10-11 fix flagged. The $6,549.99 is the RTX 5090's list band; the 5080's only figure in this record is the $1,549.99-$1,803.63 supporting band in notes, which is not a price_usd. After this removal the 5080 has no non-cloud purchase price in the corpus (its batch-1 decode benchmark local-rtx-5080-32b-q4-decode is now a benchmark without a price). Same RULE A class as the 5070 Ti removal, per gotcha value-cheapest-usable-vram-and-what-it-actually-runs.

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