A $5,000 RTX 5090? New reports warn of steep GPU price hikes
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Achaios
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Don't be so melodramatic. Ofc you will buy new hardware again, in fact you will buy immediately when the RTX 6090 launches for just $6999.
You'd also still buy the 6090 even if it cost more than $10K.
I think NVIDIA are selling the 5090's cheap. There's a lot of crazed whales out there who would gladly pay any amount of money for a 5090 and will pay any amount of money for the 6090 too, so NVIDIA has got to hit them hard and squeeze them dry.
Achaios
Posts: 692 +1,696
I fear you may be right.
It's insane what America did with China, I was in China back in the 90's and witnessed the tide of American corporations migrating to China first-hand. I thought back then that it was treason and it would not lead to anything good for America and I think the same thing now. It was treason on a monumental, epic scale.
Yeah, he didn’t miss it… he’s calling you out… and I agree with him… you’ll be buying a 6090… and probably a 7090 too…
TechSavy101
Posts: 78 +100
Nvidia masterplan: price hikes!
RTX 5090 for $5090
RTX 5080 for $5080
RTX 5070 for $5070.
The way its meant to be played!
You can rent cloud gaming setup with 4080, 8h/day limit with geforce now subscription for $19.99/month.
In short, they are gpu renting, not gpu selling company.
RTX 5090 for $5090
RTX 5080 for $5080
RTX 5070 for $5070.
The way its meant to be played!
You can rent cloud gaming setup with 4080, 8h/day limit with geforce now subscription for $19.99/month.
In short, they are gpu renting, not gpu selling company.
The people who paid $2,000+ for 5090s have to accept some responsibility — same as the people happily paying subscriptions for things they already own, like cars, heated seats, and basic features that used to come as standard. Once these predatory practices were accepted by enough consumers, every corporation went full Operation Nickel and Dime.
Now we’ve got $5,000 GPUs, subscription printers that won’t print without permission, smart TVs spying on you while serving ads, phones with no chargers, and games launched half-finished so they can sell you the rest later as “content.”
I’m 55. My first PC was a 286, handed down by my father when his office had a clear-out. We bought hardware once, owned it outright, and it worked. But enough is enough now. If I need to game it will be on my PS5
Like everything else, greed ruins absolutely everything.
Now we’ve got $5,000 GPUs, subscription printers that won’t print without permission, smart TVs spying on you while serving ads, phones with no chargers, and games launched half-finished so they can sell you the rest later as “content.”
I’m 55. My first PC was a 286, handed down by my father when his office had a clear-out. We bought hardware once, owned it outright, and it worked. But enough is enough now. If I need to game it will be on my PS5
Like everything else, greed ruins absolutely everything.
godrilla
Posts: 2,249 +1,687
To be fair Microsoft, Sony and Nvidia all have game streaming services. 2/3 players are heavily invested in ai. Also the Ultimate tear has a 5080. Unfortunately this is the ai utopia future in the 4 year outlook for gaming. Nvidia raising prices on gpus is likely multiple layered. 1),ram prices already 3x to 4x since a few months ago. 2) If fewer gamers purchasing PC due to hyper inflated parts ( ram, SSDs, gpus) Than less gamers will purchase gpu and Nvidia will likely offset the revenue by inflating prices, throttling supply and dedicating more hardware to ai. If you haven't purchased a gaming PC in the past 11 months and still need one today you can still purchase one at a decent price imo. It doesn't need to have a 5090, 32 gigs or more of ram and 8 terabytes of storage. You can settle for a decent experience with a 9070XT, 16 gigs of ram ( proven by Steve from HU) and stack your storage using older secondary and tertiary drives to mitigate cost. While there is a ton of misinformation for to cause mass hysteria and panic in my opinion the sky isn't falling! Make sure to call the the trolls that do!
fadingfool
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Kept my 1080Ti for 7 years before I replaced it. Running a 7800XT now that runs everything I want it to (monitor is an IPS 1440p 70Hz screen - so I can max out the details at native most of the time). Just dropped in a second hand i9-7980XE and upped the RAM to 48GB which will see me through the next couple of years (upgrade cost £145 in total). As I'm not chasing high refresh rates at 4K it is amazing what relatively modest hardware is capable of.
That 5090 will run like a 4080 being cpu bottlenecked by that 285k
RDNA 3 launch date is December 13, 2022 so its 3 years old now.
We won't see RDNA 5 until 2H 2027.
PierreJG
Posts: 106 +33
I will just wait and see. AI is the worst tech people released and they will see why in the next 20-50y. If they put a price hike of almost 50%, then sorry they might as well close their doors or sell toasters. The 5090 is already over 50k here. Mainly because our retails are greedy. That will make a 5090 close to 100k which no1 will buy. If this does happen then good luck as people will buy capable previous gen for a fraction of the price.
Well yes, your purchases are irrelevant… but you’re the one who brought them up…
I agree with many of the comments on here. Consumers "let" manufacturers...whether it be Nvidia, Samsung, Google, or Apple...charge what they want. It's like a consumer addiction..."I need I need...gimme gimme gimme." Live within your means and use this as an example that you probably don't need, or are entitled, to a 5090 (especially if you own a 4XXX or 3XXX card). Very few people need a new PC, car, or phone every year or every other year...when 5+ year performance is still acceptable. Game developers feed off of this insatiable appetite too. Give supply and demand a chance to get back in more desirable balance by showing some spending self-control (sadly a lot of people complaining about a $5K graphics card...while understandable...will still go buy a $5K graphics card). While it isn't...buy some stock in high demand companies (e.g. Nvidia) and make some money....that you can spend later if you want
erickmendes
Posts: 1,262 +738
Well... When the AI bubble burst hardware price will start to drop because there will be a surplus in supply, so the waiting game will go on... If I don't "end" myself first, perhaps in 5-6 years I can build a new gaming PC, with an Arm processor, some DDR6 and perhaps I can keep using my 4TB SSD...
I just want to keep on gaming with keyboard/mouse... I don't care anymore with the rest of the specs... I had low budget builds, I had power builds (Ryzen 5950x), I had brand new builds (Ryzen 7800x3D), now I got my trust old 5800x3D paired with an dated RTX 3070 with only 8GB of Ram... It runs my games at >120fps @1440p, so I don't care about updating it too soon...
I just hope when it breaks apart I can afford to build anything that can keep me gaming at +120@1440p, if it is a Nintendo Switch 3 with keyboard/mouse or a Gabecube, whatever, I'm fine with it, I don't care anymore.
I just want to keep on gaming with keyboard/mouse... I don't care anymore with the rest of the specs... I had low budget builds, I had power builds (Ryzen 5950x), I had brand new builds (Ryzen 7800x3D), now I got my trust old 5800x3D paired with an dated RTX 3070 with only 8GB of Ram... It runs my games at >120fps @1440p, so I don't care about updating it too soon...
I just hope when it breaks apart I can afford to build anything that can keep me gaming at +120@1440p, if it is a Nintendo Switch 3 with keyboard/mouse or a Gabecube, whatever, I'm fine with it, I don't care anymore.
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