- RTX 5090 with 32GB GDDR7 memory is much cheaper than the AI equivalent accelerator of NVIDIA
- Several of them can be combined to support very large language models.
- Cryptographic mining in the early 2020 caused the prices of the GPU to be, the same is likely to happen with AI
At the beginning of the 2020s, cryptomination was a driving force behind the very shortage of GPUs and inflated prices, since high -end graphics cards were collected in bulk to extract cryptocurrencies, which led to record prices in multiple generations of GEFORCE GPU.
Nvidia tried to address the problem by introducing mining limiters, but the miners, naturally, found ways of omitting them, and retail prices remained well above MSRP for long periods.
The story could be about to be repeated, but this time based on the demand for artificial intelligence instead of cryptocurrency. Videocardz (Through I_leak_VN) it informs that a Vietnamese retailer named Nguyenongpc has begun to sell AI Barbone servers equipped with seven GEFORCE RTX 5090 graphics cards.
Assembly supply pressures
The configuration, cooled by air and fed by a 2000W power supply, is designed to handle large AI work loads, including support for large language models.
The RTX 5090, with its 32 GB of GDDR7 memory, offers a combination of high performance and a relatively low cost compared to the accelerators of AI dedicated by NVIDIA demand.
When several together are used, as is the case of the server that is sold nguyenongpc, they can match or exceed the necessary memory capacity for the business level applications, without the high price of RTX Pro or Series H. products H.
While you must admire the display ingenuity here, the coup will inevitably increase supply pressures.
The RTX 5090 already faces actions of shares, and its price has increased more than $ 3000 in many markets, with some listings close to $ 4000. This reflects the path of RTX 4090, which driven by cryptomination, rarely falls below MSRP and remained in a great demand for non -game uses.
Since modders, according to reports, explore ways to increase even more on board, RTX 5090 could follow the same path as their predecessors, designed for games, but monopolized by completely different industries.
Nvidia has not yet taken measures to prevent integrators of systems or retailers from redirecting the GPUs of games towards AI markets and, if not, players could find once again unable to buy the last graphic hardware at fair prices.
