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NVIDIA's RTX 5090 graphics card costs $2,000 (www.engadget.com)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The first salvo of RTX 50 series GPU will arrive in January, with pricing starting at $549 for the RTX 5070 and topping out at an eye-watering $1,999 for the flagship RTX 5090. In between those are the $749 RTX 5070 Ti and $999 RTX 5080. Laptop variants of the desktop GPUs will follow in March, with pricing there starting at $1,299 for 5070-equipped PCs.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

5000 series cards are made for idiots

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

5000 series cards are made for professionals and idiots

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I’m here to represent the professionals ∩ idiots. We exist too.

Although seeing those prices is reminding me my mobile 3070 has been perfectly usable

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Some people don't care about spending $2000 for whatever. I mean, I'm not one of those people but they probably exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it’s all priorities. I don’t see myself buying a $2000 GPU any time soon, but if I was single and playing PC games every day in 4K or VR, I could get thousands of hours of use over the next few years from that GPU.

Compare that with other types of entertaining products and activities (vacations, cars, etc) and it starts to look not bad in comparison.

Still not in the plans for my particular situation though, lol.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm probably one of those people. I don't have kids, I don't care much about fun things like vacations, fancy food, or yearly commodity electronics like phones or leased cars, and I'm lucky enough to not have any college debt left.

A Scrooge McDuck vault of unused money isn't going to do anything useful when I'm 6 feet underground, so I might as well spend a bit more (within reason*) on one of the few things that I do get enjoyment out of.

* Specifically: doing research on what I want; waiting for high-end parts to go on sale; never buying marked-up AIB partner GPUs; and only actually upgrading things every 5~6 years after I've gotten good value out of my last frivolous purchase.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My company could buy me this (for video editing), but I mostly need it for vram that should be cheap. I would like to be able to afford it without it doubling the price of my pc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

You can get an AMD Instinct MI60 with 32GB HBM2 VRAM on ebay for ~$400-$600

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

More money than sense, as they say.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just sell drugs bro, I buy whatever the fuck I want from microcenter. Straight cash.