Eye-watering RTX 5090 price leaks alongside possible January release date

[RoyT]

pcie^

[Splatterling]

32GB of VRAM is beyond overkill. No reason to even need that type of power when no title will come close to using that. I just don't see why anyone would purchase a 5090 when a 4080 super (currently $949) would play any title flawlessly for the foreseeable future.

It may be for games but I am dependent on CUDA for work and my renders literally starve and crash the software or in blenders case, crash windows with my measly 8gb vram of my old 3070. I 'llst' my 4090 and it literally costs me twice the time and nerve to work on things.

16 gig are not enough either, I have loads of scenes that ate more than that on my ex-4090.

So no it's not overkill. 24 is what xx80 should have, 32 instead of 24 is nice but at that price I want 64 gig vram.

So yea that sucks. I and literally all my freelancer colleagues are forced to buy high-end Nvidia gpus because:

- having cuda or not is a non-negotiable
- GPU renderers don't handle vram well, so either you have more than needed or say goodbye to your free time and weekend. Redshift in Maya has gotten a lot better. Blender is literally the worst and unusable with 8gb vram (and cycles is not very fast either)

So yeah, looking forward to buying that overpriced thing..

But yeah, 4090 is overkill and not necessary for games no doubt about it unless you don't know what you are doing (using 8xMsaa, setting things to ultra, which in 99% of cases does nothing more than use uncompressed textures which you will never notice but it's a good reason to tell players that there's a reason to have a 4090).

[KC]

Who has that kind of cash in this economy for a gaming GPU????

[Vik]

Thank you Nvidia for convincing me to keep my 3090 for 2 more years!

[HulkMode666]

Well we're here.

The simple-minded have helped the lether mam have his way.

"It's more performamce so it sHoUlD be more expensive" even though for ages it was the entore stack is getting REPLACED.

Tis is why normal folk need to be left out of everything. We have fewer amd fewer nice things, and the nice things we do get are pushed further into the vanity realm because "reasons."

Yall better be proud of yourselves.

[HulkMode666]

RTX 5090...that's darling!
I'm gonna hang onto my RTX 4090 for a minute.
5090 isn't the huge leap forward that the 4090 was.
Maybe the 6090 (assuming Nvidia is still in business) will be something special.
This class of video processor is much like the Laser in 1969!
A technological solution in search of a problem it can solve.
Hydrate before coffee, or not.

Why would Nvidia go oit of business? They're making stonks selling to prosumer HPC and server.

It's Intel who looks like they may be 2 inches from the bottom of a spike pit.

[HulkMode666]

32GB of VRAM is beyond overkill. No reason to even need that type of power when no title will come close to using that. I just don't see why anyone would purchase a 5090 when a 4080 super (currently $949) would play any title flawlessly for the foreseeable future.

You must not play anything new, or 4k, or hyper modded, or paid any attention to the devs collective VRAM outcry, or do more than game......

Or all of the above.

These things have far more use than pushing pixels. Have for ages.

[Warrior24_7]

So. The card will sell out anyway and be scalped! Just making it more expensive! Nothing will change from the 4090 era. AMD wishes it had it like this!😂 It is an enthusiast card directed at that market. The most popular card in the world is going to be the 5060 (fifty sixty). You liked that didn't you?🫵 You're welcome!

[Chris Jones]

Nvidia's graphics cards business is a nuisannace at this point... its practically a rounding error, and something they dont even want to deal with anymore... given how much they are making off their AI hardware and ventures... graphics cards are an afterthought.
Nvidia is NOT going out of business any time soon - to even mention otherwise is an uninformed take.

[Bard]

32GB of VRAM is beyond overkill. No reason to even need that type of power when no title will come close to using that. I just don't see why anyone would purchase a 5090 when a 4080 super (currently $949) would play any title flawlessly for the foreseeable future.

I will say no not for my use I don't play games I work with AI modelling. I hoped it came with even more vram I need two of these to do fine tuning of my model and that is bare minimum. In comparison I need 3 off 4090 so it's cheaper with 2 of these than 3 off 4090. For gamers I have no idea what they need but I guess 5080 will do fine.
So the 5090 is like 4090 an overkill for most but a really good tool for some, which is why it's made a niche card. Not in A6000 or A100 class but for those with lower budgets.

[RobertJasiek]

I could use lots of CUDA and Tensor cores for higher speed so, enough cash presumed, might buy, say, 7 or 8 mid to high end Nvidia cards. However,

- such 90 tier cards alone would amount to roughly €15000 ~ 20000 (plus PC hardware with water cooling)

- the yearly power bill (in Germany) would be several thousand euros

A compromise with 70 tier or 80 tier cards (7 or 8 of them) would bring down their price to €5000 ~ €10000 but the yearly power bill would still be a few thousand euros.

AI inference would be fun at that speed but prohibitively expensive even with moderate wealth. It really boils down to "more than 1 card, or at best 2 cards, is luxury", unless the faster work pays itself in one's business at least proportionally to the expense.

[Erik Szpyra]

It does not cost that much extra to add the ram, this pricing is an insane markup, simply because some fools are willing to pay, not that their production costs are near that high. Some will say supply and demand, but it's just greed.

[Andy Blakely]

Price on paper and in real life are too very different things. What's the street price going to be?

Personally, I'm waiting for AMD to jump back in after their skipped season. I'm watching the AMD AI progress, too. 7900 XTX here, mostly for 3440x1440x gaming, but getting into AI work on the side now.