Scan UK’s lowest in-stock RTX 5090 (32 GB) is now £2,989.98 for the ZOTAC SOLID OC SKU, marked down from “Was: £3,118.99” and listed for next-day dispatch. A cheaper Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC sits at £2,879.99 but pre-order only with no confirmed delivery date. Our dataset anchors against the pre-order — the lowest published price counts as an anchor per our refresh rules — but the practically-buyable today price is the ZOTAC.
What changed
Scan UK’s RTX 5090 category page now lists five 32 GB variants, prices spanning £2,879–£3,449. The breakdown:
- £2,879.99 Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC — pre-order, no delivery date
- £2,989.98 ZOTAC SOLID OC — in stock, ships tomorrow (was £3,118.99)
- £3,049.99 MSI SUPRIM SOC — in stock
- £3,199.99 ASUS ROG Astral — in stock
- £3,449+ premium variants
That’s a -9.4 % move on the in-stock floor versus our previous stored £3,300, and a -12.7 % move on the pre-order anchor. The US 5090 market hasn’t moved in lockstep — Amazon and Newegg US still average $3,658+ per the bestvaluegpu.com tracker — so this is a UK-specific event, not a global softening.
The most likely driver is GDDR7 contract relief on the UK distributor side (Scan’s parent SCH is a large UK distributor with direct vendor relationships) ahead of the GDDR7 spot easing the rest of the EU still hasn’t seen. ZOTAC’s “Was £3,118.99” badge is the giveaway: the floor moved on this specific SKU within the past week, not across the whole market.
Dual-5090 builds rebase proportionally against the anchor — UK total moves £6,800 → £5,760 at the £2,879 pre-order, or to £5,980 against the ZOTAC in-stock.
What this means in practice
For UK buyers wanting a 5090 today, the ZOTAC SOLID OC at £2,989.98 with next-day dispatch is the practical pick. The Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC at £2,879.99 saves £110 but ships when Scan gets stock — Scan’s pre-orders historically clear in 2-4 weeks, but the listing doesn’t commit to a date.
The 5090 remains the highest-bandwidth single-card option for UK buyers, with the 1.79 TB/s GDDR7 still unmatched on consumer or workstation silicon outside the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (£9,000+). At £2,989 the card is a more defensible pick versus alternatives:
- Dual RTX 3090 ~£1,500 (used eBay UK) — 48 GB total VRAM, older Ampere tensor cores, slower bandwidth
- R9700 32 GB ~£1,200 (Amazon UK) — equal-VRAM ROCm at lower bandwidth
- Intel Arc Pro B70 32 GB ~£1,000 (UK Amazon when available) — same-VRAM SYCL/Vulkan at significantly lower bandwidth
The 5090 still earns the price gap if you need GDDR7 bandwidth specifically — long-context decode and the prefill side of large-model inference where bandwidth saturates compute. For dense-only workloads at 70 B Q4 it’s overkill; for MoE-32 K-context-prefill workloads at 397 B-A17 B class it’s the right card.
Pre-order risk is the real footnote. Scan ships pre-orders against the price held at order time even when the market moves. If GDDR7 spot pricing reverses up again in late June (Q3 contracts settle late July per memory-industry reporting), buyers who ordered at £2,879.99 will hold that price; the in-stock immediate SKUs at £2,989+ are the conservative pick.