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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] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I really wanted a 512bit-bussy GPU for a decade+ ... but perhaps never is just as good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't know a lot about computers, but I do know a fair amount about bussy. $2000 for 512 is a steal!

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

Sure hope I could buy two packs of 512 and screw them down in SLI mode.

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

I don't know a lot about computers, but I do know a fair amount about bussy.

All Linux-related communities on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

5000 series cards are made for idiots

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

5000 series cards are made for professionals and idiots

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[–] Aurenkin 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

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

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

More money than sense, as they say.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just sell drugs bro, I buy whatever the fuck I want from microcenter. Straight cash.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why do people buy this stuff? It only takes like a year before it falls in price as the next one comes along. Gotta get that last 2FPS, I guess.

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[–] BigDanishGuy 19 points 2 days ago

The 2k USD price is surely only in order to make the cheaper cards appear reasonably priced.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I bought my 4080 super recently and hopes it last me a good +12 years like my old card did. These prices are insane!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm rocking a 1660su until I literally can't anymore.

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

My old card literally died and was forced to get a new one.

Sleep tight, prince, my AMD R9 Fury x. You will be missed.

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

I'm still running a 1070ti, before that it was the R9 390 and R9 390X, both of them died though. One probably had it's voltage regulator fail and the other probably had it's chip die because it will boot windows but die as soon as it had to do any work

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My question is will the 5080 perform half as fast as the 5090. Or is it going to be like the 4080 vs 4090 again where the 4080 was like 80% the price for 60% the performance?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

You know it's the latter... and that even those numbers are probably optimistic.

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

I think that at higher resolutions (4k) there is gonna be a bit bigger difference than in gen 40 bcs of 256bit vs 384bit mem bussy in 4080 vs 4090 compared to 256bit vs 512bit in 5080 vs 5090.

That memory throughput & bandwidth might not get such a big bump in the next gen or two.

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

mem bussy

well there’s a mental image

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

They claim the 5070 gives 4090 performance for $549. that lower end of the 50 series line up looks nice.

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

Another billionaire out of touch with reality.

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

His reality is selling everything faster than he can produce it at any price or performance. Sooooo.

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

Can't wait for AMD to price their top of the line GPU at $1500 and call it a good deal. I hope Intel can keep some sane pricing

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