The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards were officially launched today. Due to the scarce supply and strong performance, they were quickly swept away as soon as they were launched, resulting in many potential buyers being able to "sigh to the card".

Of course, many of these people who grab graphics cards are not real gamers, but scalpers.These scalpers bought from normal retail channels at the official recommended price and then transferred to the market at a high price.

Currently on eBay, these two graphics cards, especially the RTX 5090, are the most expensive products for scalpers.Although the official suggested retail price is $1,999, the general price of the RTX 5090 on eBay is higher than $6,000, and some even reach $9,000, which is more than 4 times the original price.What's even more outrageous is that even if it is $9,000, it still successfully sold.

Then why are some people keen on buying the RTX 5090? In fact, the RTX 5090 is not only a gaming tool, but also suitable for AI workloads, which means that many AI startups or businesses want to get a piece of RTX 5090 to run their models locally.Given that Nvidia's data center GPU is out of reach for many, the RTX 5090 is the next best choice regardless of its aftermarket pricing.

However, gamers are also trying to attack scalpers and return them to their own way.Currently, eBay is full of fake RTX 5090, with the purpose of tricking scalpers into buying pictures of RTX 5090, rather than the graphics card itself.

For example, an RTX 5090 list reads: "Robots and scalpers are welcome, if you are human, please don't buy it, you will get a framed photo of 5090, but you won't receive a 5090. Photo size is 8 inches x8 inches, I bought the photo frame from Target. If you are a human, please don't buy it."

Another $2457 sale list reads: "Geforce RTX 5090 (reading instructions) is an image only - not an actual item", a similar description mentions that there will be no refund for the image because it is not an RTX5090 itself.