Huge sale on a premium RTX5090 card. Priced dropped across Umart, MSY, and PCByte
https://www.umart.com.au/product/gigabyte-aorus-geforce-rtx-…
https://www.msy.com.au/product/gigabyte-aorus-geforce-rtx-50…
https://www.pcbyte.com.au/product/gigabyte-aorus-geforce-rtx…
Umart & MSY surcharges: 0% direct deposit, 0.9% card, 1% on all other payments.
PCByte: no surcharge
I had one at launch price, and then sold it after for a couple hundred profit. Would have kept it if my friend’s card didn’t die suddenly and he wanted one. Didnt want him to have to pay $1000s over, and I still have all my old cards that could use.
Everyone always makes this comment, but it’s like a hobby for some. Hobbies are money pits and if it makes your happy and you can afford it, it’s worth it. Same as cars. Unfortunately for me they are both my hobbies and money pits haha
Yeah but classic card go up in value due to desirability, this is just NVISDIA gouging the consumer.
NGreedia
This is very true. It is definitely gouging and it shouldn't be priced this high. This is what lack of competition does, but if it brings the person happiness, and they can afford it. Some people enjoy smoking, some people enjoy going to pubs every afternoon for a few beers or getting smashed on weekends, some people enjoy expensive toys etc. If someone smokes a pack a days, it won't take that long to rack up the same cost of a 5090, but they don't get the "you're stupid for paying that much for smokes."
They do get the you're an idiot of smoking though for health related reasons.
@stylsh: I'm an audiophile(audiophool;;;) and I totally get the hobby aspect. It's like a drug to me, seeing some new bit of kit and I flog off perfectly good speakers/amps/DACs ect and go down the money hole again and again…but I enjoy it, it's a hobby.
so grabbing the latest and biggest GPU ect…I get it :-)
@Luc: I dabble in home audio. Invest lots in car audio. Home audio is sooooo $$$ haha. Currently running a set of floor standing speakers I made with a set of Dynaudio Esotar1 splits (upgraded to the Esotar2s) + a second pair of MW160 midbass ran off a Marantz Ki Pearl Lite and a Dynaudio sub300. I think any upgrades from this would be second hand stuff haha.
Nvidia agrees with this.
Only true gamers spend the big money. Thats why we at Nvidia plan to set MSRP for the 6000 series to $9999 (below 10k of course, thats bit much) as a show of respect to our true fans.
you solid it to your 'friend' for a profit? lol
He offered, I accepted. Paying $200 more, $4200 vs $5-6k what would you choose? That $200 is a token amount at this point, we all help each other out, I help work on his cars with no intention of asking for money, we have dinners/wine at each of our place without splitting costs? Is this not a normal thing between friends?
Everyone understands this hobby analogy but it doesn't compare with tech that dates quickly. I have the money for this card and wouldn't pay for it as it's horrible value for money and gouging hangover from the pandemic.
Something something LLM.
Yep, it's the VRAM. Even 3090's sell for $3500 now!
Used 3090 go for 1000-1500.
i paid 3.5k for one in covid. we're just dumb. i dont think i ever played a game on it either lol
Lol that's OzB hall of fame material
That's paying $1 per pixel for 4K gaming!
$8 million for a 5090 is definitely not a bargain.
The mad llama only counts vertical pixels and rounds up to the nearest whole thousand.
Elite frames in GTA V and Rocket League!!
I'm only gaming in 1080p (less than that…. sometimes would alter the resolution lower to eek out extra fps. This was when I was still gaming on a crt monitor) but I still want as many fps as possible regardless of the game being played.
If you're into high-end VR in sims, with dual high res screens, this is the by far most justified, even at the price. It's light years ahead of even the 5080 for that purpose.
Who plays VR with dual screens. What are you doing with the dual screens if you have a headset on?
I do VR sim and thinking about upgrading VR and GPU but 5090 is a stretch given how time poor I am.
Who plays VR with dual screens.
…
I do VR sim
And….and how many eyes do you have, dear sir/madame/harambe??
So like 6 people.
It's not just for gaming, you'd need this processing power for non-gaming processing intensive activities. A few years ago it was bitcoin mining, now, AI uses this and even more powerful GPUs. There's always going to be an application outside of gaming.
People with more (now less) money than you.
Games?! For games we buy the retro handhelds, way better gameplay and no need to download 120GB every time you want to play.
Nobs pay >$4k for a GPU to run pytorch.
I need a $4k deal on an RTX 6000 or RTX Pro 5000… hell I will even go to $8k for the RTX 6000.
Btw you don't get to a 3 TRILLION US$ valuation for providing value to gamers.
4 trillion now. Expect to pay $16k for RTX 6000.
Let's hope I make it to see the days of the photonic/analog pc.
Im an idiot that bought a 4090, same deal as this thing at the time. Its ridicukous when you think about it. My son has a ps5 regular model, and cod bo6 looks damn near identical.
Dont get me wrong, i can notice the finer details.. but its probably worth abother 200.. at best. And noting the nvidia share lrice i might be right.
Yeah… I got a new PC a couple of weeks ago with a 5080 in it. Booted up Cyberpunk and played for 10 mins - that was cool.
Since then I've played The Messenger and Astro Prospector… Thankfully I use it for work too XD
I am the nob (knob?)! I bought a prebuilt with one in there for like $6K, it's entirely pointless and I didn't need to upgrade, but it's not really a lot of money for me so…meh?
and now the prices are going down :D what a surprise.
A better question is, how much would you have to earn and how much would your disposable income have to be every month before you would be OK buying one?
If I had $8K disposable every month, I would have bought one, even though I play games for like 4 hours a week.
OOS
Achievement unlocked: Retail price
Seems like the rumoured price drops are happening now. If the upcoming 5080 Super with 24GB VRAM from a decent brand goes for $2.5k or less, that'll restore some balance in this world. 5090 at $4k is still crazy.
Wait for steady state. 5090 is literally cycling between $3999 and $6999, with $4200 being the average. 4090 went to $2500.
Any links to 4090 went to $2500 ?
Of course not
How do you sell graphics cards for $3999?
Put a sticker on it that says: Was $6999
Jack Lives Here.
there's no way enough people are buying these for it to sell out that quick
Nvidia stock prices says otherwise, they cant keep up production between gaming and A.i
They are all gone or the item was just taken off the shelf?
Last checked 5min ago they were available.
Holy sh*t people are spending this much JUST for graphic cards?!
Are you guys using them for work or just playing solitaire at giga graphic settings on 50k resolution?
just bunch of overpaid office workers with too much spare money to spend on.
Negged by said office worker
was it you?
It seems that everyone and their mother is getting into machine learning and/or video editing these days.
Can confirm that a fellow office worker spends all his disposable on upgraditus.
Wish I was one of those overpaid office workers…
They're likely not gamers, probably being used to run AI LLMs
It would be cheaper to buy 2x used 3090 or 4x5060 ti. Or just a Mac m4 max.
5090 just isn’t the best bang for buck for local llm
Why would an AI want or deserve to play high setting games? I guess it could farm achievements for me.
I don't think many people are actually doing this. Also people spend like $400,000 on cars, so you know… if you got the means I guess.
Yeah there are so few 5090s (even compared to 4090s, which were barely produced and never got to more than 1% of the market) that you're only taking a couple of hundred in the whole country. Total.
It's such a small number that it will still sell out, even if practically everyone (who can afford to buy one) is too sensible to do so.
This is cheap. Nvidia could always stick an extra 109 gb of VRAM on this thing and sell it for $70k to a data center.
was $6,999
daymn
What job are you guys doing to afford this?
AI monkey spankers ;)
My anime waifu is not going to render herself!
Teacher and bought one 👍😅
Was this 7k? What is god's name! What world we live in!
I understand the "it's a hobby it's not that deep" thing because I too spend insane money on dumb things.
But "dumb money" was spending $1000 on a 1080ti. $3500 is just ridiculous, $6k+ is "we deserve the world capitalism is giving us"
People will always justify crazy purchases.
Post purchase rationalisation is a real thing
Crying that I missed it
not sure how valid it even was considering it was up for about 3 minutes
That's not some mysterious conspiracy mate. No Australian retailer has ever had more than five 5090s in stock at any time.
Those sort of numbers don't ten seconds of OzBargaining.
Was $4500000, now $50 LOL
hope it just price mistake and won't be shipped…
keep hoping!… mistake across three different vendors???
You know all three shop is actually umart
"Every RTX 5090 deal is a masterclass in cognitive dissonance: the comments section turns into a Shakespearean tragedy about $4K GPUs, while the actual cards vanish faster than a tax refund in a crypto bull run
Now if only msi and asus would follow….
Why they have to make 3 websites?
NVIDIA's sales for the twelve months ending April 30, 2025, were $148.515 billion, a 86.17% increase year-over-year, according to Macrotrends. For the full fiscal year 2025, NVIDIA reported $130.497 billion in revenue, representing a 114% increase compared to the previous year.
Damn I bought 4 of them at full price 20 minutes before the sale happened.
Imagine selling a GPU for $7k and not even bothering with ball bearing fans…
Don't forget the lack of resistors on the melting connector.
why don't they have triple stock when they have 3 websites 😢
who are the nobs paying 4k for a GPU?
like which game graphics are worth 4k?