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.
173 Comments on Potential RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Pricing in China Leaks
And don't give me all this CUDA crap, like anyone of us does it like next thing besides posting here, it is simply not worth it for what it is, let's be real.
The rest of the time is spent talking about it's uses outside of gaming and they have an entire 2nd part on it just for rendering (pixar, ect).
That being said, current DLSS doesn't seems to completely saturate tensor core, so maybe NVIDIA can get away with that, and performance will be fine for gaming?
For the supposed price of a single 5090 I can get over a thousand hours with a GH200 in the cloud, which is way faster and has way more vram.Hi, I only use GPUs for CUDA and shitposting in forums, and don't game at all :p
But still, not worth it for me. I still can see it being "cheap" for many others, tho.Sadly I doubt this will ever happen.
RTX 5070 should stay at the same price since the raster performance increase should be 10% or something around this level and also there is competition from Navi 48, RTX 5070Ti should be finally at $900 (original intention of Nvidia was to name RTX 4070Ti , RTX 4080 12GB and price it at $900, this time 5070Ti will have the same memory size as it 5080 and also it will be based on the same chip instead of a lower tier like it was in 4080/4070Ti case, so I think Nvidia will try again to force the $900 price tag).
RTX 5080 should have $300 difference from RTX 5070Ti, I don't think the gap will be smaller than the gap between RTX 5070 ($600) / RTX 5070Ti ($900) also RTX5080 is full GB203 so Nvidia will try to artificially lower the demand for RTX5080 since the yields potentially won't be enough for the demand of a $1100 RTX 5080 and most importantly there is also the mobile RTX5090 which should be full GB203 also and finally regarding RTX 5090 since demand for RTX 4090 was not affected after the launch of 4080 Super at $1000 it should maintain the $600 gap from RTX 5080, so it should be $1800 (also 2X the price of RTX 5070Ti, like it was in RTX4090 $1600/4070Ti $800 case).
Regarding high-end the cost for RTX 5090 will be higher for Nvidia in relation with RTX 4090, the process is similar with mild difference, AD102 4N (5nm based) 609 mm² vs GB202 rumored at 744mm² in a process based on 4nm, the memory bus also is 512bit vs 384bit with 32GB vs 24GB memory and the ICs are GDDR7 based instead of GDDR6X, the interface is gen5 instead of gen4, the power consumption is higher and these changes affect also other factors potentially like PCB layers and other components so the $200 increase seems logical to me to happen in this case, regarding the others prices are a major letdown also (except maybe RTX 5070 which is just meh)