Originally, the leaks had pinned the price of the RTX 5090 at $1999, leaving many of us largely unsurprised at Nvidia continuing to push the price of its flagship card even higher. That’s not only because it maintains a market-leading position – with AMD expected not to even try and compete at this extreme end of the GPU market this generation – but also because of the huge uptick in the specification of this new GPU.
I remember back in the day when they made huge leaps every generation but the prices remained fairly stable, not increasing by 33%. This is all due to lack of competition and profit seeking, not technical improvements.
This is all due to lack of competition and profit seeking, not technical improvements.
And people buying it anyway instead of sticking to actually reasonably priced products.
AMD will not do anything until they go UDNA around 2026. I hope AMD can take enough midrange market share. Heck even rooting for Intel in the GPU market. We need competition.
My 1080 still running strong… who is paying for these
Ok, but fuck NVidia. What’s with AMD? Will there be a card that matches the 7900XTX at least? Will there be a 8900?
AMD said they’ll focus on the low and midrange segments, so likely not.
No, there will not be. The RX 8000 will top at the mid range. There will be no successor for the 7900 XTX. Maybe the 9000 in 2027 will have a 9900 XT. I wish there will be a 8800 XT for $500 to put pressure on nVndia, but with Blackwell 50 series using GDDR7 and RX 8000 using GDDR6, an RX 8800 XT for $500 might make no difference.
The problem is midrange is defined on being “lower than high end”, and the 5090 is insane that it drags that line up. If AMD makes an 8800 level card, it’ll be a “mid range” card by the extremely wide spectrum of performance, but it’s still an upper 1/3rd card.
I agree that an 8800 is higher level. My standard is any GPU that does 1440p 144fps ultra of a 3 year old gane is above midrange.
I believe for GPU selection, a lot of people would be happy with 1080p 120fps path tracing on ultra. If graphical quality is the most important thing about gaming like some PC make it oi to be, there would be no consoles that sell.
Since there is a very large market of people who have not bought a new release within the last 2 years, it makes for a lot of people who would enjoy raytracing/path tracing getting 120fps at 1080 to 1440 but not more or higher… The mass market is years away from 4K 144Hz.
