RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb

it is funny how all this is only driven by ram. From a 5070ti with 16GB of ram at less than 1500€ to a 5090ti with 32GB of ram at 12500€ you get nearly a factor of 10x with the rtx pro at 24GB of ram sitting below 4000€.

We configured 6 machines each having 2x5090 for local Qwen3.8 in the past months. Prices are very high.

The performance of local AI for coding, given correct setup & harness, is very good and on par for 95% of use cases compared to closed models.

Local usage for end-users is unmetered and token speeds are very fast and keep improving every few weeks due to optimizations being done in the community.

Data remains local which makes EU compliance checkboxes way easier since data never touches anything related to the CLOUD act.

Wrote a couple of days ago: I decided to check out what a top gaming PC would cost. $12.5k! Absolutely nuts. I have gamer friends that make bank, the types that have always bought the latest flagship parts at launch, and even they slowing down, because they feel the prices are extortionate.

We're back to early 90s prices.

EDIT: Yes, obviously you don't need a RTX5090 to play games. But it seems to me like the top GPU market is now exclusively for the local LLM users.

As someone whose gaming PC is now over six years old, I am very nervous that my GPU is going to crap out on me, because I won't be able to afford to replace it.

Moore Threads Lushan GPU will be out by the end of this year with 64GB RAM.

I just did a cost breakdown of owning a GPU vs paying for tokens.

An RTX 5060 Ti 16GB card costs about $800 on Amazon right now. Running 18.4 hours a day ( off peak electric rate schedule ) it can process approximately 109.3 million tokens per month. The card has a 90 day return window. Credit card interest + electricity puts the cost at $80 total out of pocket, to use this card for 3 months and return it.

Paying an AI provider came out to $1,639.50 for the same 3 months of 18.4 hour a day usage.

You know its a bubble when ... $80 vs $1,639.50

I understand that if you're a major corporation, or a researcher that needs 100+ gpus for a large project, unless you have access to your own supercomputer, the economics will be different.

This was for "individual coder at home" scenarios.

tl;dr ... im exploiting jeff bezos, and math is racist. too funny.

I guess people have never heard of "options" before.

I optioned a video card for 90 days. My bad.