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NVIDIA's RTX 5090 graphics card costs $2,000 (www.engadget.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No one should, video graphics haven't progressed that far. Only the lack of optimisation has.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You're missing a major audience willing to pay $2k for these cards, people wanting to run large AI language models locally.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What if I want a ton of VRAM for blender

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It'll crash due to an unrelated reason

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is another audience & good point. There are people that want these though for other uses than gaming.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Media production when speed and efficiency matters is probably part of a business that would have funding to justify the cost.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just delete your comments dude. This is obnoxious.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago

You’ll survive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It’s a valid point; I wonder how it will be optimized for different workloads and scenarios.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'm willing, but unable :'(

Someday I'll be able to run something cool like that Deepseek v3 model or something. Probably when they figure out how to run them well in regular RAM, I have a shit ton of that at my disposal. Stupid VRAM. (Maybe they'll start coming out with GPUs with slotted VRAM lol)