Gamers Are Refusing the Sky-High RTX 5090 GPU Prices, Leaving Shelves Full of $4,000 GPUs

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I don't know how long ago this was, but I don't see any available on Dallas' MicroCenter website...

I was looking in Denver for 1400 dollar but it sold out

 

[umeng2002]

Good

 

[Dr. Dro]

Meanwhile, I just had to write a sternly-worded email to the shop I purchased my card from. 60 days already, wasn't delivered.

Ugh.

 

[Hyderz]

I hope they continue to sit on the shelves until price falls below msrp

 

[neatfeatguy]

Thats the only way is a boycott of these prices. Even the 5080 isnt worth the 1400 dollars in my opinion

Got a 5080 model at my Micro Center that's nearly $1800 after taxes, maybe that one will entice you fork over your money. The more it costs the better it has to be, right?

 

[Psinet]

nVidia - take a look what happened to Intel due to becoming over-confident in their anti-consumer practices.

To hell with nVidia.

AMD all the way - until they too become anti-consumer.

 

[kiddagoat]

The 7900 XT @ 699USD is looking like quite the bargain now.

 

[eidairaman1]

Gamers in general have been rejecting GPU prices over the last several generations, they've just been getting dragged along for the ride by AI demand.

For AI use, the 5090 is pretty disappointing. 32GB of VRAM was less than what many were expecting, especially given the price increase. It's more or less in line with Nvidia's enterprise offerings at the quoted $4,000 price tag.

There's all the issues with the 5000 series to contend with as well and the fact that getting it to actually work with many AI tools is a PITA. With all the issues and the lack of improvements to perf per watt the 5090 doesn't really feel superior to the 4090. It feels like you are trading off stability and peace of mind for a unstable furnace that will cost you more than double the money.

Thermi anyone

 

[nguyen]

5090 are indeed selling for 4000usd+ in my country and sitting on shelves
I can comfortably wait until they hit prices that are MSRP + 20% or below

 

[Broken Processor]

Most people willing to be ripped off have already been ripped off when they bought their 4090 and there's nothing in the 5090 that would make them willing to upgrade other than bragging rights.
I'd love to buy a new GPU to go with my new 4k 240hz oled but there isn't anything that's interesting, 5090 over priced against 4090 that's already over priced, 5080 yeah right that junk barely beats out the 4080 Super unless you over clock the snot out of it and yeah we will see how that works out. 9070xt is a very good card for a 70 class card but not paying 700+ quid on a 70 class card if only they had released a flagship card around £1000-1500 with performance to match I'd have been buying but as it stands I'm staying put for another 2 years on my current card.

 

[Melvis]

Full? 4 on a shelf doesnt make it "full"

 

[yzonker]

Uh, sold out. So much for that theory....

 

[JustBenching]

Thank god AMD atleast did the research and knows the midrange sub 700 dollar card is where most people are buying so gave us cards that fit that market......oh....oh wait.....riiiight nvm.....

Which is not even true. Most gamers buy below 400 even with amds numbers.

Most people willing to be ripped off have already been ripped off when they bought their 4090 and there's nothing in the 5090 that would make them willing to upgrade other than bragging rights.
I'd love to buy a new GPU to go with my new 4k 240hz oled but there isn't anything that's interesting, 5090 over priced against 4090 that's already over priced, 5080 yeah right that junk barely beats out the 4080 Super unless you over clock the snot out of it and yeah we will see how that works out. 9070xt is a very good card for a 70 class card but not paying 700+ quid on a 70 class card if only they had released a flagship card around £1000-1500 with performance to match I'd have been buying but as it stands I'm staying put for another 2 years on my current card.

4090 was far from a ripoff. Just imagine how much you are going to spend if you bought something else in 2022 to reach the performance of the 4090. Let's say you paid half the money (so 1k$ for an xtx). In 2027 - 2028, 6 years later you might get something that matches the 4090, and it probably won't cost less than 1k. So you are going to need to spent the same money but you were missing the actual performance for 6 years.

 

[Onasi]

Which is not even true. Most gamers buy below 400 even with amds numbers.

Yup. I have been banging that drum for years - the 200-400 range is THE seller. The Steam HS proves it time and time again. Most people just want a decent card to play games OK. They could not give less of a fuck about 2000 dollar halo SKUs and they aren’t really bothered by playing medium-high settings and leaving RT off. They aren’t glued to the RTSS overlay either. They just play games, which is sane. And they need moderately priced cards for that. Anything above the price of a console is automatically a hard sell. So far, funnily enough, only Intel has fully grasped that this is the segment most valuable to be dominating in.

 

[JustBenching]

Yup. I have been banging that drum for years - the 200-400 range is THE seller. The Steam HS proves it time and time again. Most people just want a decent card to play games OK. They could not give less of a fuck about 2000 dollar halo SKUs and they aren’t really bothered by playing medium-high settings and leaving RT off. They aren’t glued to the RTSS overlay either. They just play games, which is sane. And they need moderately priced cards for that. Anything above the price of a console is automatically a hard sell. So far, funnily enough, only Intel has fully grasped that this is the segment most valuable to be dominating in.

Yeah, normal people don't have a concept of an 800 or a 2k gpu. They have a concept of a 1k - 1.2k max PC. Which leads to a 500$ max gpu.

 

[Camm]

Low supply with large volume customers buying most for AI before they are even seen at retail. Those who do make it to retail end up sitting (especially the most expensive models like these ASUS ones which had ASUS taking the piss anyway).

So I guess both statements are true.

 

[R0H1T]

Meanwhile, I just had to write a sternly-worded email to the shop I purchased my card from. 60 days already, wasn't delivered.

Did you include a "thank you" in there somewhere

Remember folks "Thank You" and (tan?) Suits ~ the ultimate panacea to all our problems in the world

 

[Paganstomp]

My three reasons:

Food expensive. Can't eat video cards.
Gasoline expensive. Can't run truck on video card.
Electricity expensive. Can't run this power sucking pig of a video card 24/7.

 

[neatfeatguy]

Looks like the 3 - water cooled 5090s at my Micro Center that were showing in stock yesterday are no longer showing as available today. 3 different people came in to drop $4k on a water cooled 5090.

Looks like there are a lot of chumps out there willing to get one of these cards.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Uh, sold out. So much for that theory....

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Yeah, I think photographer was just in the right place at the right time to see them on the shelves. Or it was a MC manager posting to social media to get them sold. I imagine they probably don't want these in-store for too long considering how aggressive thieves are these days.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Nvidia and it's AIBs don't lose. Even if they are forced, for example in 12 months from now, to dust off the cards and sell them for $2200 instead of $3700, they probably still make a profit, considering MSRP was at $2000. On the other hand maybe even 5090's MSRP was fake and they need to sell at much higher than $2000 to make any profit.

But I've been informed by several posters here that AIBs cant make ANY profit, in fact they LOSE money, at MSRP, which is why they have to invest millions into multiple derivative designs! You mean to tell me they can make money selling a GPU with a BoM of $700 for $2000?

 

[R0H1T]

BOM for who? That almost certainly is not what JHH sells the 5090 for, to AIB's or anyone else!

 

[medi01]

Well, they said they sold way more cards in the first week of the RX 9000 series than in previous launches. It's just that the demand is too high. And people validating way higher prices by purchasing anyway because FOMO or whatever doesn't help.

"10 times more" they said.

Given the hype I see for 9000 series on the gaming forums that previously didn't even consider AMD, I am not surprised.

They would sell even more at claimed MSRP.

 

[Prima.Vera]

The question is, where are all those Founder Edition cards from nVidia?!? I cannot seem to find those anywhere, not even sold out . Or those are just a marketing scam?

 

[medi01]

Yeah, I think photographer was just in the right place at the right time to see them on the shelves.

Eh?

All four 5000 series embarrassments are in stock in Germany for quite a while.

5090 starting at 3k Euro
5080 at 1330
5070Ti at 950
5070 at 650

AMD's hype series are at:

9070 XT at 790 Euro
9070 at proud 6070 (lol at 5070)