Rumored RTX 5000 GPU price leaks are shocking – Nvidia should just call the RTX 5090 a Titan if it’s going to charge up to $2,500 for it

That’s a worst-case scenario, but the best-case is… wait for it… $2,000. Yes, you read that right

10 Oct 2024, 15:15 · TechRadar

News By Darren Allan published 10 October 2024

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Halloween is not far away now – it’s just a few short weeks until spookiness abounds – but if you want a real scare, this rumor of Nvidia’s potential pricing for RTX 5000 graphics cards is truly frightening.

What’s nothing short of a shocking revelation – add seasoning, as with any leak – comes from Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID) on YouTube, but in fairness, it also has a bag full of caveats in tow, which we’ll come on to shortly.

But first, the rumored prices themselves, which apparently come from one of the leaker’s best sources for Nvidia info.

All of this is US pricing – though it’ll be theoretically proportional to this wherever you live, plus the ever-present import charges and relevant taxes – and we’re told that the RTX 5090 will land at between $1,999 and $2,499. MLID further observes that the likelihood is that it’ll be closer to the latter, than the best-case scenario – yikes, in a word.

With the RTX 5080, Nvidia is supposedly looking at $1,199 to $1,499, again with more likelihood of a $1,300 or more asking price. And apparently when it comes to the RTX 5070 – which, as per other rumors today, MLID says has 12GB of VRAM – Nvidia might plump for between $599 and $699.

We’ll come back to discuss those prices in a moment, but the leaker has a few other details to share, including that the launch of these graphics cards is scheduled for early 2025, and not late 2024 as some past rumors had indicated. Pretty much all signs are pointing to a CES 2025 launch at this stage.

In terms of performance, MLID also adds that the RTX 5070 is expected to offer similar frame rates to the RTX 4070 Ti in rasterization (non-ray tracing), perhaps a touch faster, and it will only be meaningfully better than that last-gen model in ray tracing (where the new Blackwell GPU could be maybe 10% to 20% faster). Remember, that’s the plain 4070 Ti version, not the Ti Super.

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