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

[Redaktion]

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 price will reportedly see a massive 25% increase over the RTX 4090 per a new leak posted on X. The leak also confirms the previously reported 32 GB VRAM as well as the release date.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Eye-watering-RTX-5090-price-leaks-alongside-possible-January-release-date.909797.0.html

[Andrew Mayer]

Just remember nVidia.  Payback's a bitch....

[Greg]

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.

[@man_daddio]

Nvidia is not going to sell a card like the 5090 cheap that somebody's not going to need to upgrade for many many years.

I'm surprised that the 4090 was as cheap as it was. That card is going to be good for many many years. 

[Sum Dood]

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.

3rd Leg Greg, too concur with you.  I was just talking about this 5090 isn't nearly as a leap like the 3000 series to the 4000...   I'll still grab one...  I have uses for my old 4090 already lined up..   

[LyntonB]

150w more and 25% more...that's a pass for me, see what 6090 or RDNA5 brings

[SiliconAddict]

the xx90 models have always been a halo product never designed for anyone outside those with deep pocket or the need for a Titan class GPU just not at Titan prices.  With the 5090 it looks like Nvidia is OK with seeing how far they can stress test the users on the price.  No doubt the lemmings with said deep pockets will follow Nvidia right off the cliff.  The real question is the 5080 series and the cost.  Nvidia backpedaled on the $1200 but they seem to be at ease with pricing the xx80 series at the $1000 range and with AMD outright saying they are abandoning their high end. Which is to say anything that is competing with the xx80 series, there is little reason for Nvidia to fall back to the 3080 prices or dare I even dream of the 2080 prices.  Even with inflation the costs of those two models of cards is insanely cheaper then the 4080 series.

All that said.  I ended up paying $2000 for a 3090 FE back in 2021 as I had a power surge that killed my system. (Just because you have a UPS on your system doesn't mean it can't come in from the projector's HDMI port > cable > GPU.  I needed something and I said the heck with it and paid the extortion fee.

[Joe Smevker]

That release date may make sense for the author of this article, but I think most consumers look to make their big purchases on special occasions like Christmas.

[Ceriss]

Ridiculous. No thank you. I didn't pay 2k for the 4090 and I won't for the 5090 either.

5080 with 16 GB again is a joke. Gues s I'll keep the 4080 for a decade and see if these knob ends grow a brain.

[Numnutts]

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.

[AI user]

For developers and users of local running AI applications this is a great product and the price is fine as the competition is the workstation and server grade nvidia GPUs that are even more expensive.

And 32 GB VRAM is for this usecase a nice increase although still little. So expect that people continue to build rigs with many 5090 at the same time.

[evilpaul666]

The 2080 Ti was $1400 at launch. The five $999 cards that were produced that generation may as well not have existed.

[The electrician]

At this point your going to need to bring in a 220v service in to your living room.

[RoyT]

Without p2p memory sharing - the consumer cards took a huge dive in value. The last card with shared memory over pie was the 1080ti. That was intentionally gimped on every future consumer card.

It makes sense to gimp a consumer card to distinguish from a real AI card with memory sharing (over pcie or NVLink)... but still charging a premium for it is a bridge too far.

[RoyT]

pcie^