A Redditor claims to have lucked out on a half-price Walmart RTX 5080 and that's pretty much the only way you're gonna get a cheap GPU these days

A Redditor on ye olde PC Master Race subreddit claims to have picked up an RTX 5080 in-store at Walmart for a mere $562.49. That's a fantastic price by any measure for an RTX 5080, but particularly right now with prices rising and the cheapest 5080s available online coming in at over $1,300.

Let's assume this is true and Rinascimentale of Reddit did indeed pay a shade over $560 for an Nvidia RTX 5080. How, exactly, does this make sense?

Apparently, the price reduction on the RTX 5080's...