TECH NEWS – With a new top-of-the-line card based on the Blackwell architecture, the company may not go overboard with the pricing, but you’ll definitely have to pay a bit more than when the RTX 4090 was released.
Blackwell graphics cards will be officially unveiled at CES 2025 early next year, and so far only configurations and high-end cards have surfaced. The new high-end card looks very exciting, with 32GB of VRAM and over 21,000 CUDA cores, but this has led many to suspect that Nvidia will be selling the RTX 5090 at a hefty price. Last week there were rumors that the RTX 5090 could cost as much as $2,500 and the RTX 5080 could cost more than $1,000.
Nvidia is currently informing its partners about the products, configurations and specifications. The company will send the blueprints to manufacturers (e.g. Asus, MSI, Gigabyte…) and partners to develop their own nodes and cooling systems, and then they will finalize the pricing, and this is usually close to when Nvidia comes up with the recommended retail price. In fact, this is when the Founders Edition cards are released, and the first kits follow a similar pricing. Only later (when custom PCBs and innovative cooling systems are released by manufacturers) can we expect to see a more significant deviation from this.
I don't believe there will be a significant price increase for RTX 5090.
— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) October 10, 2024
No prices for RTX 50 GPUs have been shared with any partner.
— Hassan Mujtaba (@hms1193) October 10, 2024
According to WCCFTech’s source, a Taiwanese factory that makes cooling components for Nvidia has designed at least eight different cooling systems for Founders Edition graphics cards from a company led by Jensen Huang. But how much will it cost? According to a reliable insider, kopite7kimi, the RTX 5090 won’t be significantly more expensive than the RTX 4090, and he called last week’s rumors false. Dealers are now scrambling to get rid of RTX 4000 stock, and in the rush for Christmas, the RTX 4080 Super and RTX 4070 Super could become quite cheap.
So the RTX 5090 could either stay at $1600 or it could be 100 more ($1700). We’ll see.
Source: WCCFTech
