NVIDIA announces new RTX 5090 graphics card that costs $2,000 at CES
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NVIDIA's RTX 50 series of GPU arrives later this month, with pricing starting at $549.

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.

    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      3 days ago

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

      • Zink@programming.dev
        3·
        16 hours 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.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.world
        232·
        2 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.

      • srecko@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 days ago

        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.