RTX 5090 doubles to $6,899 as RAM prices eclipse GPUs in worst-ever PC build market
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-09-15
- Yuchen Jin (AI2 researcher) notes the RTX 5090 now costs $6,899 — double its price a year ago — and quips: is everyone hosting local open-source models, or did someone figure out how to train frontier models on gaming GPUs?
- He previously pointed out that a single 256GB RAM stick now costs $1,400 more than an RTX 5090, calling it the worst time to build your own PC.
- AI-driven demand for GPUs and high-capacity memory is pushing consumer hardware prices to extreme levels.
Related event: RTX 5090 Vanishes From Retail as Prices Spike to $9,600(5 posts)→
More from Infra
- Clover-35B-A3B Quantized to 29.4 GB Runs at ~42 tok/s on a 64 GB Mac — viveky259 · 2026-10-31
- Liquid Agent brings fully local LFM3 agent to Linux with one-command install — JosephJacks_ · 2026-10-31
- A fully local office AI stack: MiniCPM, Qwen3, LFM2.5 and Whisper — HowDevelop · 2026-10-31
- a16z: GPU rental prices up 106% in 3 months while token prices fall 58% — a16z · 2026-10-31
- vLLM nightly adds PLE disk offload, with a telling [Qwen4Exp] tag on the PR — rmhubbert · 2026-10-31
- Solo AI studio: per-minute GPU rentals rendered a 328-frame Blender shot for ~$1 — r0ck3t23 · 2026-10-31