RTX 5090 Hits $5,000 as AI Firms Buy Gaming GPUs by the Pallet
chemist_slime · reddit · 2026-10-11
Per Videocardz, the RTX 5090 now trades around $5,000—well above MSRP—because AI companies are buying consumer gaming GPUs by the pallet for inference and small-scale training, squeezing supply for gamers. The price gap between gaming cards and datacenter GPUs is being eroded by AI demand.
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