PC Master Race @lemmy.world terraborra @lemmy.nz 1w ago

"Lowest" 5090 prices in New Zealand

All prices in NZD. Highest priced air cooled card, the Asus ROG Astral, is $6299 and the Asus ROG AIO is $6599.

Even after stripping out the 15% sales tax the lowest priced card is still USD 2655.

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I heard that MicroCenter had less than 300 5090's for the entirety of the USA. Nvidia has taken the nintendo approach to controlling how much hardware they release.
Better release a bunch of articles about how Chinese AI is scary so we can keep video card prices high because our bosses invested our retirement fund into NVIDEA
Prices like this and a crappy 5080 are going to make my 4090 go up in price
Welcome to fucking around with global markets and the effects of AI on GPU pricing.
Meh; I'm happy with my 4090. Got lucky enough to score one on a discount on launch day. It's going to last me well into the 2030s.
- I tried getting a 5080 yesterday, obv missed out.
  
  Then i tried to get either a 4080 super or a 4090, which seemingly everyone else did too as they all sold out.
  
  My 3070 isn't cutting it anymore for me, i might just get a 7900 xtx or something as those are still available.
  
  I believe nvidia said there will be low 5090 stock for 2 weeks. Can't explain the other cards tho.
- I'm happy with my RX 6800 that I bought at scalper prices because I wanted to build a hackintosh 🙃 I hope it serves me well for another 5-10 years.
Ehhh. Whatever. It's like steam sales these days. Just wait. I have a 30 series card that is still going very strong. Hoping for an AMD or Intel higher end card in a gen or two.
Indent see any point in buying this unless you're aCG artist for movies or you have a 1070ti
- My 3070 isn't cutting it anymore.
  
  Most games gobble up that 8gb like it's nothing.
  
  I have a 3060 12gb. It's still good. My next card will be AMD though I think. GeForce experience is killing me
When did they even come out?
- Just today (or yesterday depending on time zone).
- Like a week ago
What is up with the dollar in NZ and AU? Are we doing okay?
- We have some truly terrible trade agreements.
I just want a cheap 060 card with a decent amount of VRAM but I can't in case somebody trains a fuckbot on it.
- I wish AMD or Intel released a GPU with upgradable VRAM, that would mean they would become even more viable for fuckbot training. People go the 3090 GPU route in the second hand market for them because all they care about is VRAM size, they don't care if its two generations old.
Hungarian 5090 prices.
After NVIDIA's marketplace partner botched my order after I paid it and them not taking any responsibility whatsoever, I'm pretty sure I'm well on my way to becoming an AMD fan boy now. Maybe an Intel fan boy, depending on how they continue improving their GPUs. But a lot of GPU development in the future is going to go hand in hand with geopolitics, so it will be interesting to see how that goes.
The brand new top of the line flagship tech product is expensive!?!

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