RTX 5090 cards sell out while scalpers make bank

Remember during the pandemic and the crypto boom, when it was impossible to find a graphics card at retail price? Remember the launch of the RTX 50 series last year when that happened again? Yeah, it seems like the RAM crunch has us reliving painful memories. After conflicting reports of lowered output and canceled card families, the RTX 5090 seems to have all but disappeared from retail shelves.

An informal investigation found that shoppers hoping to find the GeForce RTX 5090—Nvidia’s...