Nvidia RTX 50xx

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I would have to assume at least a terabyte of it so far.

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I think I got in at a good time. Nvidia is supposedly going to reduce output for the consumer cards by 40%. I don't even see the one I got listed for sale (or in stock, at least) any longer and it's all $3k+ cards. Some of these are almost $4k wtf? Nvidia really did the consumer market dirty.. The one that made them in the first place. Greed wins in the end. SAD!

A lot of videos out there saying high-end gaming is now a luxury and prices won't ever return to what they were a year ago. I think my current system will be good for many years so I'm not too worried at this time. What I have now runs everything great so not sure why that wouldn't continue into the future.

I can't see the motherboard manufacturers like Asus or Gigabyte making out too well in the near future though. With it costing so much to put together a PC who is going to be buying motherboards? Having said that I think motherboards were way overpriced these days. It will be interesting to see how the hardware market fares over the next year.

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GeForce RTX 5090 Prices To Soar To $5000 As Nvidia And AMD Prep GPU Price Hikes in Q126

Just a rumor that is going around. Between that and them supposedly reducing output on some of the lower end cards means it's going to be another GPUpocalypse.

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GeForce RTX 5090 Prices To Soar To $5000 As Nvidia And AMD Prep GPU Price Hikes in Q126

Just a rumor that is going around. Between that and them supposedly reducing output on some of the lower end cards means it's going to be another GPUpocalypse.

Man I checked RTX 5090 prices on Amazon today. $3800 was cheapest and most brands out of stock or $4K+


At this point people may as well go with the RTX PRO 6000 (workstation or MaxQ) it's holding steady at around $8,200 on new egg. for the price it's a "value" for 96GB vs 32GB now considering the cost.

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That's why I bought one when I did. It's out of stock everywhere at the price I paid ($2560) but Amazon has it for $3500 but I think that's probably just some third party gouger. Looking over price history it seems MSI has increased their base price for that GPU by $150 since September. As long as the connector doesn't melt I see myself just using this card for many years. Other than vram I think we're pretty maxxed out on GPU technology at the moment at least as far as my uses go. I don't even have a 4k monitor.

With mine I've started noticing coil whine which people had reported in reviews I saw. Some said it went away over time but that hasn't been my experience so far. Maybe I'll try tuning the undervolt and see if that helps.

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With mine I've started noticing coil whine which people had reported in reviews I saw. Some said it went away over time but that hasn't been my experience so far. Maybe I'll try tuning the undervolt and see if that helps.

RTX 6000 PRO definitely has coil whine when it's under max capacity. In the past that possibly may have bothered me. I have a constant ringing in my ears, well my right ear, now so I'm past the point of worrying about dead silence. My right ear feels like it's hearing a high pitched coil whine 24 hours a day. The perk of getting old is I don't have to worry about reducing high pitched noises since I hear it constantly. As with most things, your brain learns to tune it out. Interesting thing is the whine goes away even with low ambient rain sounds.

You should definitely undervolt your 5090. My power bill actually went down (slightly) from last year with the 300W 6000 GPU. I was a little concerned about getting the MaxQ but it was the right decision. The fan isn't loud and the extra few percent performance the 600W version gives doesn't seem worth the extra power cost.

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I have it undervolted.. But I sort of did a "good enough" at the time so I just need to dial it in a bit more. Hence "tuning the undervolt."

Anyway, it sounds like NVidia is effectively killing the 16 GB versions of their lower end 50 series GPUs. So if someone wants a 16 GB version I'd get it now if you can find one. I think those may just be the 5060 Ti and the 5070 Ti.

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Supposedly the whole 50 series is going to be 'paused' or trickling out for most of this year so I'm glad I jumped on a 5090 when I did. Also what does come out will be increasing in price by at least 30% as that's what Nvidia will be charging the AIBs so the customer increase will probably be higher than 30%. I think another rumor is that they'll be bringing the 3080 back into production.

Ever since the whole mining thing and COVID years ago GPUs have been a bit of a mess and it doesn't seem like it will be getting better anytime soon.

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Supposedly the whole 50 series is going to be 'paused' or trickling out for most of this year so I'm glad I jumped on a 5090 when I did. Also what does come out will be increasing in price by at least 30% as that's what Nvidia will be charging the AIBs so the customer increase will probably be higher than 30%. I think another rumor is that they'll be bringing the 3080 back into production.

Ever since the whole mining thing and COVID years ago GPUs have been a bit of a mess and it doesn't seem like it will be getting better anytime soon.

Yeah it's a sad state for high performance home PCs.

Amazon only has one 5090 brand showing and it's $4,995

RTX 6000PROs are holding steady at $8,200!

I won't post much about it but I love mine. I make very good use of all the VRAM. It doesn't go to waste.

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Report claims Nvidia will not be releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026, RTX 60 series likely debuting in 2028

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compone ... ng-in-2028

Well that doesn't sound promising.

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No clue why anyone would have expected them to announce new cards this year when they can't even supply the market with their current line of GPUs and have been supposedly cutting, or at least limiting, the availability on the higher-memory models.

Many expected Nvidia to announce the RTX 50 Series super refresh at CES 2026, but just before the event, Nvidia publicly announced that it would not announce any new GPUs at the event, a first for the company in five years.

Many? Who are these many? I'm no market analyst or insider but even I knew they weren't going to be announcing new GPUs that have even more memory than the models they are currently not prioritizing due to the amount of memory on them. Expected is different than hoped. This was a bit of a nothing article.

I see the MSRP of my 5090 has gone up $700 since I bought it. At some point it's just charging more because they can. Did the RAM increases on 32GB really add $700 to the materials cost? I would be surprised if that was the case. Although that does come close to the 30% increase that Nvidia was hitting their AIBs with.

The only good news in all of this is that Jensen Huang is looking to resurrect old GPUs to keep the market fresh with as much GPU supply as possible.

Oh, yes, please save us Jenen! The author of this article seems like he is an Nvidia glazer. Nvidia is the bad guy. They don't care about the average consumer since they can make much more money selling their shit to corporations.