A shortage of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards has led to a price increase of up to 45% in a month.

A Japanese computer component market researcher nicknamed Aile published the results of a monthly monitoring of graphics accelerator prices as of November 1, 2026. According to the collected statistics, in just one month since the beginning of October, local retailers have recorded a sharp and abnormal price increase for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell and AMD RDNA 4 graphics cards. Due to rapidly depleting inventory, available models at major retailers have increased in price by an average of 18% to 45% compared to late September and early October. The current prices of popular models in Japanese stores, adjusted for current exchange rates and adjusted for price increases over the past month, are:

• GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB from 939,800 to 1,238,430 yen (from $6150 to $8100, an increase of 45% per month);
• GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB from 144,800 to 160,800 yen ($2170 to $2230, up 32% month-on-month);
• GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB from 245,000 yen (about $1600, up 28% month-over-month);
• GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB from 144,800 to 160,800 yen ($950 to $1050, up 22% month-on-month);
• GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB from 148,800 to 176,760 yen ($970 to $1150, up 35% month-over-month);
• GeForce RTX 5060…