someone found an RTX 5080 for $702 at Walmart this week. here's why you probably won't

A PNY RTX 5080 sold for $702.56 at a Walmart clearance cage on August 23, 2026 — about $800 under the roughly $1,500 it commands at Amazon, Newegg and Best Buy.

A separate MSI RTX 5060 Ti 8GB find rang up around $266 with tax, against retailer prices near $500.

Both cards are caught in a real GDDR7 memory shortage that's pushed GPU kit prices up 20–30% and put the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB's median price 39% higher than it was in June.

Clearance-cage pricing errors happen because returned or damaged-box units get re-scanned at a markdown percentage off a stale base price, not because a store is quietly discounting new stock.

Chasing one on purpose rarely works — the find is store-specific, first-come, and usually gone within hours of the Reddit post going up.

My honest take

I think the memory-shortage backdrop is exactly why these posts go viral — everyone's watching prices climb every week, so a $702 RTX 5080 reads like proof the market's wrong. It isn't. It's proof…