Saturday, December 28th 2024
Potential RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Pricing in China Leaks
What we've all been waiting for, might just have appeared and what we're talking about is of course the pricing of NVIDIA's upcoming graphics cards. @wxnod has posted a single screenshot on X/Twitter of what could be the MSRP of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 in China. The MSRP of the RTX 4080 was 9,499 RMB and the RTX 5080 appears to be not that much higher, at 9,999 RMB, but this still equates to about US$1,370, although do note that there's 13 percent sales tax/VAT in China.
Now as for the RTX 5090, things won't be as rosy. The RTX 4090 had an MSRP of 12,999 RMB in China and the RTX 5090 comes in at an insane 18,999 RMB or US$2,600. That's a price hike of a not insignificant 46 percent over the RTX 4090 and this might make it the most expensive consumer graphics card ever released. We'd suggest taking these prices with a helping of NaCl just to be on the safe side. The cards are expected to be available some time in January according to the screenshot.
Update 15:34 UTC: A second picture was posted in the same thread on X/Twitter that shows the expected launch months of the lower-tier RTX 5000-series cards as well and it appears to be taken from a video.
Sources:
@wxnod X/Twitter, @harukaze5719 X/Twitter for additional details
Now as for the RTX 5090, things won't be as rosy. The RTX 4090 had an MSRP of 12,999 RMB in China and the RTX 5090 comes in at an insane 18,999 RMB or US$2,600. That's a price hike of a not insignificant 46 percent over the RTX 4090 and this might make it the most expensive consumer graphics card ever released. We'd suggest taking these prices with a helping of NaCl just to be on the safe side. The cards are expected to be available some time in January according to the screenshot.
Update 15:34 UTC: A second picture was posted in the same thread on X/Twitter that shows the expected launch months of the lower-tier RTX 5000-series cards as well and it appears to be taken from a video.
172 Comments on Potential RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Pricing in China Leaks
The pain, the pain... I just can't...
(The user obviously being the manufacturers)
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No thanks.
Diminishing returns for the top end are back in the menu.
That said, I've seen several 'investigation' videos on YT of people hunting down RTX 4090 being sold illegally in China, just like any other banned good. Go to the right markets, talk to enough people, and eventually you can find one. With a hefty 'premium' price.
Is that without the 60% alleged tariff?
I think MSI has also been caught with their pants down shipping GPu's to China or Russia and they deflected by saying it wasnt them but one of their partners that did it. I think it was MSi but it could have also been Zotac. I cant quite remember
Pain will grow... 6000 GPU 80/90 will be sold 2000 euros looks like ;p
Doesn't seem like a good deal to me :confused:
Half of all the Titan cards released had FP64 at a 1:3 rate and of the half that didn't, only a single card had an MSRP that exceeded $1,200. That single card (the titan RTX) was the last Titan card, probably because Nvidia realized it didn't want to give people a good performing FP64 card for "cheap" but the Titan name was misleading to people looking for that.
The xx90 class was born specifically to avoid connections to the engineering and scientific chops of Titan class cards yet people still use them as excuses for Nvidia's pricing.It was Zotac.
If I'm any of these companies I'd avoid doing that. The risk isn't worth getting cut off in European and US markets, especially for a company as large as MSI that sells much more than GPUs.Consider that Nvidia stopped production prior to launch so those prices are inflated. I'm still seeing 4090s averaging $1,700 in the used market.
Nobody is going to cut anyone from the market. They are more likely to get fined a few million by the EU or sanctioned by the new US Administration
New games aren't that good to invest into it either way... TW4 maybe? But it is years away. We all know GTA6 will need a 6000 series to run good as it is always with rockstar and I expect it to flop in certain ways, there are certain signs of that.
What you call scorched earth others call enforcing the law and setting an example. Unless the fines are extremely severe they can simply be considered a cost of doing business and may have zero corrective impact. There are thousands of examples of companies gladly taking fine to continue to flout the law. Fine also take forever to work through the bureaucracy and appeals. At some point justice delayed becomes justice denied. Companies need to FAFO and action by government needs to be made to ensure the latter happens.