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NVIDIA's RTX 5090 graphics card costs $2,000 (www.engadget.com)
submitted 1 year ago by nave@lemmy.ca to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 points 1 year 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.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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