The Nvidia RTX 5090 Could Cost More Than Most Gaming PCs

We know a fair amount about Nvidia’s anticipated GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards, but a lingering consideration beyond their core numbers is their cost. According to recent leaks and rumors, the RTX 5080 and top-end Nvidia RTX 5090 may require customers to open their wallets wide enough to fit one of these. Rumors are huge cards. Notable tipsters indicate that the 5090 could be priced as much as 40% higher than the 4090 at launch.

Nvidia 50-series is yet to confirm Even existing, let’s share pricing details, but there are enough leaks and rumors to suggest the cards will be expensive. Twitter tipster @wnxodwho shared some accurate hardware information, posted an image of a product listing for the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 in Chinese Yuan. As spotted by WCCFTech On weekends, the cards will cost 18,999 yuan and 9,999 yuan respectively. It will be around $2,600 and $1,400 in USD for the 5090 and 5080.

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None of this should be reflected in Nvidia RTX 5080 and 5090 pricing. These numbers are uncertain, and US prices will differ from Chinese counterparts with China’s 13% VAT. After that tax, that would put the 5090’s price around $2,200. Still, we fully expect the rumored top-end Blackwell GPUS to cost more than the 40-series. Google lists search results based on rumours The 5090 is sporting 32GB of GDDR7 memory. Further leaks mention the 5090 will have 21,760 FP32 CUDA cores, 5,000 more than the last generation. According to the leak, the 5080’s Ada should be slightly better than its Lovelace counterpart, with 16GB of VRAM and 1,024 more CUDA cores.

Even if the Chinese price is accurate, Nvidia may change something before release. However, this indicates that next-generation Nvidia cards could cost around 40% more than the 4090 at launch. That 2022 GPU cost $1,600 in October 2022. The RTX 4080 was priced at $1,200 when it debuted. These days, you can find both at lower prices, though not by much. They will continue to drop in price for the 50-series, although it will take time to see a decline in a similar fashion to the Blackwell.

Weekend, YouTuber Vex It also shared leaked pricing information pointing to the price of the 50-series card in Australia. According to the YouTuber, the 5080 could cost over 2,500 in AUD, or over $1,500 in the US for these SKUs for a supposed Asus DUAL variant, though we don’t know what the exact configuration will include.

All we know at this point is speculation, and you should take it with a grain of salt. Expectations for the next top-end GPU point to more expensive cards than ever before, making me shudder to think of the price of any laptop that dares to stick a top-end Nvidia GPU inside.

This is why the cost of the rumored RTX 5070, 5060, and 5060 Ti will be so important. All of these cards are supposed to be upgrades over the 40-series but with more marginal gains. The RTX 5080, especially the 5090, seems to be built for AI processing, graphics and gaming. Leaked VRAM calculations on both high-end cards will be particularly important for handling AI capabilities. The 5060 and 5060 Ti will be much more conservative, according to a report WCCFTech. The 5060 will only have 8GB of VRAM. The Ti version will get 16GB, the same as the 5070 (according to rumours @kopite7kimi) and 5080.

Nvidia’s GPUs don’t have much competition for the TP top end. Rumors say that AMD will also share its data RX 8000 series Cards We still don’t know if the estimated cost of the next-gen RTX is equivalent to their actual performance. At the very least, we won’t have to wait long to find out. CES 2025 is set to begin on January 6. Nvidia’s keynote speech That day will take place at 6:30 pm PT and 9:30 pm ET.