The Nvidia RTX 5090 may cost more than most gaming PCs

We know a fair amount about Nvidia’s expected GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards, but the one consideration beyond their basic importance is their cost. According to the latest leaks and rumors, the RTX 5080 and Nvidia RTX 5090 may require consumers to open their wallets wide enough to fit one of these cards. Huge cards are rumored. Popular tipsters suggest that the 5090 may cost 40% more than the 4090 at launch.

Nvidia The 50 series has not yet been confirmed They’re even out there, let alone sharing pricing details, but there are enough leaks and rumors to suggest the cards will be expensive. Twitter tip @wnxodwho shared some precise information about the hardware, posted an image of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 product listing in Chinese yuan. As I spotted it WCCFTech Over the weekend, the cards will cost 18,999 yuan and 9,999 yuan respectively. That would be close to $2,600 and $1,400 in US dollars for the 5090 and 5080.

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None of this should be reflected in the Nvidia RTX 5080 and 5090’s price costs. These numbers are unconfirmed, and US prices will differ from their Chinese counterparts with the Chinese VAT of 13%. Depending on that tax, the price of the 5090 would be close to $2,200. However, we fully expect the rumored high-end Blackwell GPU to cost more than the 40 series. Rumors based on Google search listings show The 5090 sports 32GB of GDDR7 memory. More leaks indicate that the 5090 will feature 21,760 FP32 CUDA cores, 5,000 more than the last generation. According to the leaks, the 5080 should be marginally better than its Ada Lovelace counterpart, with 16GB of VRAM and an additional 1024 CUDA cores.

Even if Chinese pricing is accurate, Nvidia may shake things up before release. However, it does indicate that Nvidia’s next-gen cards could cost nearly 40% more than the 4090 did at launch. The 2022 GPU cost $1,600 in October 2022. The RTX 4080 cost $1,200 when it debuted. Nowadays, you can find both for less, but not by much. They will continue to decline in price thanks to the Series 50, although it will take some time to see Blackwell decline in a similar way.

Over the weekend, YouTuber moodiness He also shared leaked pricing information indicating the price of the Series 50 cards in Australia. According to YouTube users, the 5080 could cost more than $2,500 in Australia, or more than $1,500 in the US. These SKUs are for the supposed Asus DUAL variant, though we don’t know the exact configuration it will have.

Everything we know at this point is just guesswork, and you should take it with a grain of salt. All the predictions for the next high-end GPU point to cards that are much more expensive than ever before, which makes me shudder to think about the pricing of any laptop that dares to put a high-end Nvidia GPU inside it.

This is why the cost of the rumored RTX 5070, 5060, and 5060 Ti will be so crucial. All of these cards will supposedly be upgraded over Series 40 but at greater marginal gains. The RTX 5080, especially the 5090, seems to be geared toward AI, graphics, and gaming. The numbers of leaked VRAM on both high-end cards will be especially important for handling AI capabilities. The 5060 and 5060 Ti will be more conservative, according to a report by WCCFTech. The 5060 is supposed to only have 8GB of VRAM. The Ti version will have 16GB, which is the same capacity as the 5070 (according to rumors from @kopite7kimi) and 5080.

Nvidia doesn’t have much competition for the high end of GPUs. Rumors suggest that AMD will also share information about it RX 8000 Series cards. We don’t know yet whether the supposed cost of the next-gen RTX equals its actual performance. At the very least, we won’t have to wait long to find out. CES 2025 is scheduled to start on January 6 on Nvidia Keyword It will be held that day, at 6:30 PM PT and 9:30 PM ET.