AI enthusiasts inflate Nvidia RTX 5090 prices
11 posts in the last 30 days, all from r/LocalLLaMA.
“It’s so annoying how quickly Reddit will upvote conspiracy bullshit. Sure bro they’re all wasting money to fuck people over [re: Here’s why RTX 5090 costs $5,000: AI firms are buying gaming GPUs by the pallet]”
“I paid ~$1,700 for my RTX 4090 when it was king of the hill, it felt painful to spend that much on just a single component of my pc. Little did I realize that price would feel essentially free in only a few short years. This timeline we all find ourselves in is simply bonkers.”
“No people on this sub should buy the 3090s while they're still at these prices, before all the businesses buy them [re: Everyone go buy RTX 3090s NOW while you still can]”
Users report a significant increase in the price of the Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card, attributing it to high demand from AI developers and resellers shipping cards overseas. The inflated cost is impacting existing users who want to upgrade their hardware.
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“No people on this sub should buy the 3090s while they're still at these prices, before all the businesses buy them [re: Everyone go buy RTX 3090s NOW while you still can]”
“I don't want to disclose why but I wager when I say it's got nothing to do with taxes or law. It's not a 'scary' situation, it's more like a crylaugh situation. I think you can guess why This isn't a joke/hype, just came by to warn everyone. These prices will stay for a few weeks maybe then they will skyrocket EDIT: I suppose I can disclose the reason to mods if they want to confirm submitted by /u/Dany0 [link] [comments]”
“I swear I managed to get mine for like 1500 euro about 2 months ago but they're suddenly up by more than 1000 euro hovering about 2500-2800, what the hell is happening? Bro i shoulve bought two submitted by /u/BreadUndPeeTears [link] [comments]”
“1 year later and they sell for 1200 EUROS on ebay. What kind of weird frickin times we live?!?! [re: Why aren't there cheap NVLink adapters for RTX 3090s?]”
“It’s so annoying how quickly Reddit will upvote conspiracy bullshit. Sure bro they’re all wasting money to fuck people over [re: Here’s why RTX 5090 costs $5,000: AI firms are buying gaming GPUs by the pallet]”
“It's mainly the local ai folks that are buying it. The really big companies are not buying the 5090. [re: Here’s why RTX 5090 costs $5,000: AI firms are buying gaming GPUs by the pallet]”
There is no bubble lmao this is the new normal [re: No more RTX 5090]
“I just checked as well. RTX 4090 FEs are nearing 3k on eBay. Insane. I need to wrap mine in bubble wrap. [re: NVIDIA reportedly discontinuing RTX 5090, GB202 GPUs to be reserved for RTX PRO series]”
Tfw your old gaming PC has a much newer card than my current PC 😭
“Lucky me. I decided to buy 2 5090s back then for my 2 years son. I still remember when the 5090s was costing $5500. Beautiful days.”
“Yeah, I could sell my PC right now, the whole thing and... make quite a lot of cash, even with 4 yo components... its insanity.”
“I got a barely used 3090 Ti on eBay like a month ago for $1200. That’s ridiculous if it’s skyrocketed even more since then. There were some going for $1500 or more, but I did a bid and got it for cheaper.”
“Made this order at a reputable retailer earlier today, then the product page got pulled. Probably going to get a rejection of the order and refund monday, but hey, you only live once :D. No shit on the unobtanium. This whole GPU thing is the first time in my life patience has not paid off, at least yet. https://preview.redd.it/1yj4kf4erkqh1.png?width=601&format=png&auto=webp&s=2f5ce9ea9b25578e308252edcaad31632a2a369b”
“Local microcenter has 5090s for ~4600 in stock. Last I looked I saw one for 4400 in stock. It moves around a bit.”
“This is from shopee sellers without reviews. Probably a scam. Google shopping prices are around $270k $300k (over 8k USD)”
“Everyone cheesed Jensen ‘the more you buy, the more you save’ huang without knowing he really was trying to give us all sage advice lol”
“Sorry, I do stand corrected on a few situations, so changed my comment to "compete" instead of "beat" Qwen 3.8 27B I'll give 5090 the win here due to prefill Fastest setup for 5090 is Ninfer AFAIK https://github.com/Neroued/ninfer Fastest comparable setup to that for 2xR9700 https://www.launch80.com/a/8d28ac18-059c-4ce5-92f6-cc4e1ff3557c Maybe I've missed something but here's how I compared them Concurrency C=1 2xR9700 C=2 2xR9700 C=4 Draw C=8 5090 pp=8k 5090 (and”
“Holy crap, even selling your kidney will not be enough to afford an RTX 5090 now...whaatt”
“Yeah but you see all that DLSS5 enhanced gameplay footage of driving games you can use it for... it's somewhat like you're buying an actual car. Especially if you splurged for a wheel too. Shit's realistic enough these days.”
“because you can run a 4 bit quant with excellent results. I've been running qwen 3.7 27b on my 3090 for weeks. I even have a 5090 that I could use as well but currently I'm mainly just gaming on the 5090 or trying out different models, because the 3090 is doing such a good job with Qwen I'm not touching the setup.”
This is %100 collusion and MicroCenter should be investigated.
it's ok to be upset. but don't take it out on that guy lol.
Never thought I'd feel good about spending 2500 on mine but here we are
“I paid ~$1,700 for my RTX 4090 when it was king of the hill, it felt painful to spend that much on just a single component of my pc. Little did I realize that price would feel essentially free in only a few short years. This timeline we all find ourselves in is simply bonkers.”
“Yeah, cause OAi and Anthropic can give them a hell of a lot more money then we ever can”
“Well I don't see them doing circular investments into retail unlike with OAI or Anthropic then eating up their entire inventory. It's essentially buying their own inventory in a roundabout way, then jacking up the prices”
“Glad I got mine for 2500 last year. I was almost about to pull the trigger on a rtx pro 6000 for 7500. Wish I did that instead”
“man, I bought a 5090 when prices were low and waterblocked it. if I bought one at these prices, no way I'd have the balls to open it up and waterblock again. goddamn.”
“Nvidia 50 series gpu's are hilariously overpriced no normal person is paying that for a 5090 and those who are fall into .001 percent of people”
“1000% yes, anybody saying otherwise would be either Nvidiots or have stocks in NVDA. That is why I am steering clear of anything NVDA, 32GB of VRAM in 5090 now costs $5090 ? Fuck off, all you Nvidiots are losing your mind. 32GB of VRAM is 32GB of VRAM, it limits the types of models you are able to run period.”
Honestly mind boggling that this is why 5090s cost an arm and a leg
“Me either! The OP needs to take this damn post down before the price of those cards goes up 10X. :) I'm really shocked at those numbers.”
“For local LLM’s this is true 100%. But there’s a big growing community of stable diffusion/ comfy users who are pumping out massive volumes of AI porn on their 5090’s at a nearly realtime pace with all the turbo Lora’s and shit. 5080 does ok, but nothing like that sweet sweaty fiddy ninedy.”
Let's wait 3 years... If prices don't go down it's inflation, heh.