We know a fair amount about Nvidia’s anticipated GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards, but one lasting consideration beyond their core count is their cost. According to the latest leaks and rumors, the RTX 5080 and the top-end Nvidia RTX 5090 may require consumers to open their wallets wide enough to fit one of them. rumor major cards. Notable tipsters are hinting that the 5090 could cost 40% more than the 4090 at launch.

Nvidia it has not been confirmed that the 50-series even exists, especially the sharing of pricing details, but there are enough leaks and rumors that suggest that the cards will be expensive. Twitter tipster @wnxodwho shared some accurate hardware information, posted an image of the product listing for the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 in Chinese Yuan. As seen by WCCFTech on the weekend, the cards will cost 18,999 yuan and 9,999 yuan, respectively. That comes to $2,600 and $1,400 in USD for the 5090 and 5080, respectively.

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None of this should be seen in the Nvidia RTX 5080 and 5090 cost price. These numbers are unconfirmed, and US pricing differs from Chinese counterparts with China’s 13% VAT. With that tax, it would put the price of the 5090 closer to $2,200. However, we fully expect the rumored top-end Blackwell GPUS to cost more than the 40-series. Rumors based on Google Search listings show the 5090 sporting 32GB of GDDR7 memory. Several leaks mention that the 5090 will have 21,760 FP32 CUDA cores, 5,000 more than the previous generation. According to the leaks, the 5080 should be significantly better than its Ada Lovelace counterpart, with 16GB of VRAM and 1,024 more CUDA cores.

Even if the Chinese price is accurate, Nvidia may change things before release. However, this means that Nvidia’s next-generation cards could cost almost 40% more than the 4090 did at launch. That 2022 GPU cost $1,600 in October 2022. The RTX 4080 cost $1,200 when it debuted. Nowadays, you can find both for less, although not by many. They will continue to drop in price thanks to the 50-series, although it will take time to see the Blackwell drop in the same way.

Over the weekend, the YouTuber turmoil also shared leaked pricing information that points to the price of the 50-series cards in Australia. According to the YouTuber, the 5080 will cost more than 2,500 in AUD, or more than $1,500 in the US Those SKUs are for a supposed Asus DUAL variant, although we do not know what exact configuration will be included .

All we know at this point is speculation, and you should take it with a grain of salt. The expectations for the next top-end GPU are all pointing towards more expensive cards than before, which makes me shudder to think about the pricing for any laptop that dares to put a top-end Nvidia GPU in content.

This is why the cost for the rumored RTX 5070, 5060, and 5060 Ti will be very important. All cards should be upgraded to the 40-series but there are very marginal gains. The RTX 5080, especially the 5090, seems to be aimed for AI processes, graphics, and gaming. The leaked VRAM count of the two high-end cards is particularly important for handling AI capabilities. The 5060 and 5060 Ti will be more conservative, according to a report by WCCFTech. The 5060 would only have 8GB of VRAM. The Ti version will get 16 GB, the same as the 5070 (according to rumors from @kopite7kimi) and 5080.

Nvidia doesn’t have much competition for the tippy top end of GPUs. Rumors suggest that AMD will also share information about it RX 8000 series cards. We still don’t know if the alleged cost of the next generation RTX matches their actual performance. At least, we won’t have to wait long to find out. CES 2025 is scheduled to begin on January 6. Nvidia’s keynote will take place that day, 6:30 pm PT and 9:30 pm ET.