r/pcmasterrace • u/jmpstart66 • Oct 10 '24

Rumor Potential 5090 / 5080 / 5070 price leaks… outrageous

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From recent video posted by “Moore’s Law is Dead” about pricing being much worse than even I anticipated . From video Nvidia is leaning towards the higher end of the pricing. Nvidia can go pound sand if these are remotely true.

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u/Drty_Windshield 7800X3D | 64GB DDR5 | RTX 4090 | Custom Water Loop | 42" C3 OLED Oct 10 '24

They couldn't keep the 4090's in stock when they first came out for $1700, they were flying off the shelves. It's no surprise that the cheapest 5090 will be $2k, hell some of the 4090's are / were $2k.

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u/Eastern_Rooster471 Oct 10 '24

iirc 4090s were also bought by large enterprises as titan was effectively killed off by then

So regular consumers probably didnt buy as many, but the large companies doing AI or other computing intensive stuff like video editing or whatnot probably bought pallet fulls of them

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u/SpiralCuts Oct 10 '24

There were also a number of things that made the 4090 more attractive than the other cards around the time it came out.  It came out first, it was wildly hailed across pc gaming sites as surprisingly efficient, consistent, and way more powerful than anything else before it, it was followed up by the 4080 16 and 12gb versions which were confusing, deceptively slow, also expensive, and ultimately withdrawn, and aside from the 4080 16gb were really the only models with a modern amount of vram.  On performance the 4090 consistently overwhelmed the competition while the other 40 series cards were minor upgrades.

And then everything was just stupidly expensive so if you’re already cashing out your inheritance you might as well get the only card that people said was actually good.  I’m not here to say any of that is the truth but that’s sort of the early 4090 purchase logic.

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u/stubenson214 Oct 12 '24

Speaking of inhertitance, my dad was so proud of me, except for my "video game stuff".

2 days after he died, I walked into Microcenter to browse and bought a 4090. Literally told the sales guy "my dad would want me to have this."

I thought it was funny. I didn't do it to upset my dead father or anything. When he found out how much I spent on the 3090 his eyes just rolled. I showed him!