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 · 3d ago · 6 min
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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 · 6d ago · 8 min
Hardware
an RTX 5080 now costs more than an RTX 5090 did at launch. no, that's not a typo
Nvidia just hiked GPU prices for the third time this year, and for the first time it hit everything — not just the flagship.
Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 7 min
Hardware
the best 4K gaming GPU in 2026 isn't the RTX 5090 — and the reason is pure math
The RTX 5090 is the fastest card money can buy. It's also terrible value for pure gaming. Here's the 4K GPU you should actually buy in 2026, and why the $999 card beats the $1,999 one for most people.
Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 11 min
AI
the local AI workstation that runs 70B models: the ~$3,500 build, and the smarter way to spend it
To run a 70-billion-parameter model at home you need ~48GB of VRAM. Here's the build that gets you there — and why two cheaper cards beat one expensive one.
Ravi Malhotra · Jul 30 · 9 min
AI
At $1,999 the RTX 5090 is an easy yes for local AI. Nobody will sell you one at $1,999
Measured at 102.7 tokens/sec — double a 3090 — with the only 32GB of VRAM in consumer land. Then the street price doubles the MSRP and the whole verdict flips. Both answers, with the math.
Lena Fischer · Jul 22 · 9 min
Hardware
Two 3090s or one 5090? The answer isn't the one everyone gives
The dual-3090 build doesn't give you double the bandwidth for chat — and the reason has nothing to do with the cards. What the measurements actually say.
Ravi Malhotra · Jul 21 · 11 min