The American parts market presents a paradoxical situation: buying an off-the-shelf branded system unit with a flagship GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card turns out to be cheaper than buying this card separately. According to the portal video cardgaming pc HP Omen Max 45L Equipped with RTX 5090, Ryzen 7 9700X processor, 32 GB DDR5 memory, and 1 TB storage, priced at $4,709.99.
Meanwhile, finding the graphics card itself at retail is a near-impossible task due to severe shortages. The only option available when monitoring is the model ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 OCthey’re selling it for $4829.99 (although it initially went on sale for $2799.99, compared to NVIDIA’s usual suggested price of $1999).
As a result, buyers of the off-the-shelf series will not only receive a fully functional and powerful PC complete with motherboard, power supply, cooler, and case, but will also save approximately $120 compared to purchasing a “bare metal” flagship GPU.