Amazon Prime members can grab this RTX 5090 for its lowest-ever price

Tech Deals cover featuring an RTX 5090 Solid OC GPU from Zotac

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In the market for a new GPU or perhaps building a new system ahead of EA's Battlefield 6 release, whatever the reason, if you want the absolute best GPU in your build, then now could be an opportunity to pick one up at a reduced price - and boy, do they need it. The MSRP for these cards, set by Nvidia ahead of the launch of the 50-series flagship, was $1999, but we soon found that that original pricing was nowhere near the reality of the actual release prices. Cards were closer to $3000 than $2000. If you're an Amazon Prime member, you can currently pick up one of these powerful graphics cards for its lowest-ever price on Amazon.

The card in question is the Zotac Gaming RTX 5090 Solid OC, which has a retail price of $2,399.99. This is $400 less than its original launch price of $2799.99 a few months ago, and checking the Camelizer and PC-Partpicker price checkers, we can confirm that this is the lowest-ever price offered for this card online from the retailers these price checkers cover.

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Zotac's Gaming Solid GeForce RTX 5090 is stacked with 32GB of the latest GDDR7 VRAM running on a superfast 512-bit bus. A whopping 21,760 CUDA cores and a 2422 MHz boost clock speed are what make this beast a ridiculous performer in games. This card has the latest connectivity options, with 1 x HDMI 2.1b port and 3 x DisplayPort 2.1b ports for connecting to displays. If you're looking for the best GPU for gaming and also a popular GPU choice for productivity work, like video editing, or playing around with localized AI//large language model projects, then the 5090 is the way to go.

We've tested and reviewed the RTX 5090 and found it to perform roughly 25% better than the previous generation's RTX 4090. There is no better card if you want the absolute best in your machine, and this current price is the cheapest that you can currently get one for. While the card is becoming common on shelves than it was at launch, this is still a very expensive GPU that requires a powerful power supply and possibly a fire extinguisher.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition performance charts — (Image credit: Tom's Hardware)

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Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom's Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.

17 Comments Comment from the forums

John Nemesh

Laughable. Such a "deal" at $2400! Seriously, anyone considering this overpriced POS should just wait until AMD launches RDNA 5. You will get a more powerful card THAT WONT CATCH FIRE and it will be HALF the price of this turd.
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Heat_Fan89

John Nemesh said:
Laughable. Such a "deal" at $2400! Seriously, anyone considering this overpriced POS should just wait until AMD launches RDNA 5. You will get a more powerful card THAT WONT CATCH FIRE and it will be HALF the price of this turd.
RDNA 5, more powerful than the 5090 and half the price? I doubt all of that. It appears AMD has decided to stick in the mid-range GPU market. Selling a RDNA 5 card at $1200 still won't entice next gen buyers. AMD has done nothing to dethrone Nvidia and Steve Burke from GN says the same. Also, Nvidia won't stand still and with even a modest increase of the 6090 it will still be the gaming champ.

I tend to agree with the article below that AMD's next generation cards will probably target RTX 5080 performance, which still isn't bad with better RT and hopefully more VRAM. The 9070 series targeted the 5070 series so it would seem plausible that their next gen cards will target the 6070 series if the numbers scheme stays the same. The 6070 series will probably be a step above the current 5080.

Nvidia is in cruise control right now so their 6 series cards will probably be a modest increase over the 5 series, just like the 5xxx were a modest increase over the 4xxx.

https://www.techspot.com/news/108754-amd-upcoming-rdna-5-flagship-could-target-rtx.html
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FallenKell

Heat_Fan89 said:
RDNA 5, more powerful than the 5090 and half the price? I doubt all of that. It appears AMD has decided to stick in the mid-range GPU market. Selling a RDNA 5 card at $1200 still won't entice next gen buyers. AMD has done nothing to dethrone Nvidia and Steve Burke from GN says the same. Also, Nvidia won't stand still and with even a modest increase of the 6090 it will still be the gaming champ.

I tend to agree with the article below that AMD's next generation cards will probably target RTX 5080 performance, which still isn't bad with better RT and hopefully more VRAM. The 9070 series targeted the 5070 series so it would seem plausible that their next gen cards will target the 6070 series if the numbers scheme stays the same. The 6070 series will probably be a step above the current 5080.

Nvidia is in cruise control right now so their 6 series cards will probably be a modest increase over the 5 series, just like the 5xxx were a modest increase over the 4xxx.

https://www.techspot.com/news/108754-amd-upcoming-rdna-5-flagship-could-target-rtx.html
You are forgetting that the next gen 6XXX series Nvidia cards will be on a new manufacturing node, unlike the difference between the 4XXX and 5XXX series cards (which were both TSMC 4NM). There is never as much performance bump in the cards when there is no node change, but when there is a node change, we tend to see much higher performance jumps.
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onigami

Heat_Fan89 said:
RDNA 5, more powerful than the 5090 and half the price? I doubt all of that. It appears AMD has decided to stick in the mid-range GPU market. Selling a RDNA 5 card at $1200 still won't entice next gen buyers. AMD has done nothing to dethrone Nvidia and Steve Burke from GN says the same. Also, Nvidia won't stand still and with even a modest increase of the 6090 it will still be the gaming champ.
I find it laughable to suggest "nVidia won't stand still." The 5090 was the only card with a meaningful performance boost over the 4000 series (don't let the frame generation numbers fool you). We'll be lucky if that happens with the 6000 series at all, even accounting for the node change.

nVidia has made clear from its quarterly earnings that consumer is now a far distant second to (AI) enterprise in terms of revenue sources and thus importance. It will neglect the RTX line for the foreseeable future, especially because it has no incentive to do anything substantive. GPU development now seems to be trickling down and repackaging AI chip development, based on what the 5000 series did, and that seems to be the cheaper method of development. And competition is weak: It's been a long time since AMD made a GPU that could challenge nVidia at the flagship level, and even if they're serious about challenging them, they're a couple years out from putting out something that could. The only other significant competitor in the space is Intel, and even accounting for their current turmoil, a flagship-level card is several years out if we're lucky.

nVidia can and, given their propensity towards AI chip development for the enterprise market, will sit pretty for a while.
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logainofhades

I would rather keep my money and not set my PC on fire.
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okpail

Admin said:
Dropping to an all-time low on Amazon, Zotac's RTX 5090 Gaming Solid OC GPU is available for Amazon Prime members.

Amazon Prime members can grab this RTX 5090 for it's lowest-ever price : Read more
It seems a lot of money for a card with no AI possibilities. Maybe this is the problem. The customer expects better... Especially when you look at the DGX product line...
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valthuer

John Nemesh said:
Laughable. Such a "deal" at $2400! Seriously, anyone considering this overpriced POS should just wait until AMD launches RDNA 5. You will get a more powerful card THAT WONT CATCH FIRE and it will be HALF the price of this turd.

Well, as a guy who recently saw his 5090 connector burning, i'm gonna have to agree with the "card THAT WONT CATCH FIRE" part, but i seriously doubt the rest of what you wrote.

We haven't even seen an AMD GPU that can surpass 4090, which is basically a 3 year old card at this point.
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Heat_Fan89

onigami said:
I find it laughable to suggest "nVidia won't stand still." The 5090 was the only card with a meaningful performance boost over the 4000 series
They had no incentive because there's really no competition for Nvidia. AMD made it known they were no longer in the flagship market. The 7900XTX and XT GPU's did not entice enough buyers vs Nvidia.

When you as a company (Nvidia) are asking $2K for a graphics card, you better give the buyer a good reason to fork over their cash. Everything else 5080 on down was an incremental upgrade over the 4xxx series.
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Heat_Fan89

logainofhades said:
I would rather keep my money and not set my PC on fire.
I would not buy a 5090 just for that reason alone.
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hannibal

Heat_Fan89 said:
RDNA 5, more powerful than the 5090 and half the price? I doubt all of that. It appears AMD has decided to stick in the mid-range GPU market. Selling a RDNA 5 card at $1200 still won't entice next gen buyers. AMD has done nothing to dethrone Nvidia and Steve Burke from GN says the same. Also, Nvidia won't stand still and with even a modest increase of the 6090 it will still be the gaming champ.

I tend to agree with the article below that AMD's next generation cards will probably target RTX 5080 performance, which still isn't bad with better RT and hopefully more VRAM. The 9070 series targeted the 5070 series so it would seem plausible that their next gen cards will target the 6070 series if the numbers scheme stays the same. The 6070 series will probably be a step above the current 5080.

Nvidia is in cruise control right now so their 6 series cards will probably be a modest increase over the 5 series, just like the 5xxx were a modest increase over the 4xxx.

https://www.techspot.com/news/108754-amd-upcoming-rdna-5-flagship-could-target-rtx.html
If RDNA5 is even close to 5090/6090 it will cost $3000 to compete with 6090 that will be $3500... So you can get AMD $500 cheaper!

The company that can sell GPUs at much cheaper price than anyone else is Nvidia, because it produce so much more GPUs that their RD cost are divided among much bigger pool of GPUs! So if AMD can release something... It will be very close to the price of Nvidia equivalent and AMD profit margins are smaller because they pay more for each gpu they manufacture...
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