rtx 5090

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Hardware

there's a $3,700 GPU with more VRAM than a $4,700 RTX 5090 — and almost nobody running local AI has heard of it

I priced out every rung of the local-AI hardware ladder this week. One tier is quietly the best deal on the list, and one isn't worth it at any price.

Ravi Malhotra · 3d ago · 9 min

Deals

I ran the math on renting a cloud GPU vs buying an RTX 5090 — the answer surprised me

renting looks cheap by the hour. buying looks expensive by the receipt. only one of those numbers is honest

Nadia Rahman · Aug 22 · 7 min

Hardware

buying a whole RTX 5090 gaming PC is now cheaper than buying just the graphics card

somewhere between the memory shortage and the markup, Nvidia's flagship broke pricing so badly that skipping the DIY build is the actual smart move

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 22 · 7 min

Deals

newegg's '$500 off' on this RTX 5090 PC undersells the actual deal by a lot

the discount headline is real, but it's not the interesting part. do the math on what the GPU alone costs right now and this deal gets a lot more interesting.

Nadia Rahman · Aug 16 · 6 min

AI

GPU prices just jumped up to 39% in two months — here's what's actually worth buying for local AI now

The RTX 5060 Ti got hit hardest, the RTX 5080 barely moved, and that flipped the value math. Here's what actually makes sense, card by card, in August 2026.

Lena Fischer · Aug 14 · 9 min

Hardware

Meta's new AI model runs at home now — one $1,299 AMD card almost keeps up with a $4,700 Nvidia one

AMD's own numbers put its workstation GPU at 53 tokens a second on Meta's new 30B model. Nvidia's flagship does more — for over three times the price.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 11 · 6 min

Deals

Nvidia sold GPUs at MSRP for one weekend. everywhere else, prices just jumped 39%

For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.

Nadia Rahman · Aug 11 · 6 min

Deals

nvidia is selling the RTX 5090 for $1,999 this week — but only if you're in Dallas

QuakeCon 2026 is, right now, the one place on the planet where Nvidia's flagship still costs what it said on the box.

Nadia Rahman · Aug 7 · 6 min

Hardware

nvidia's flagship GPU just crossed $5,100 — for local AI, that math doesn't work anymore

South Korea is the canary. TSMC wafer costs and $20 memory chips just pushed the RTX 5090 to 2.5x its sticker price — here's the actual buy-or-skip math for running AI models at home.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 8 min