Nvidia’s Next-Gen RTX 5090 Graphics Cards Could Be Priced Sky-High
The buzz surrounding Nvidia’s next-gen graphics cards is already heating up, with rumors suggesting they’ll hit the market in early 2025. While official prices remain unconfirmed, speculation is rife—and given Nvidia’s track record, it’s safe to assume these new GPUs will be anything but cheap. If you’re planning to get one, be prepared to pay a pretty penny.
In fact, we’ve already caught a glimpse of the potential price tag in Europe. According to HardwareLuxx (via VideoCardz.com), Comino, a system integrator, recently began accepting pre-orders for its new AI-focused servers that come with RTX 5090 graphics cards. Though the prices quoted are for large-scale industrial setups, they give us a rough idea of what the RTX 5090s could cost in the near future.
The price for a server housing eight RTX 5090 cards is around 50,000 euro, or roughly $52,700 USD. For a more modest configuration with six cards, the price drops to 40,000 euro ($42,300 USD). This works out to around $6,500 per card for the eight-card configuration, which—let’s face it—is quite hefty.
Before diving into further analysis, it’s important to consider that these prices are for servers, not standalone graphics cards. Business-to-business prices often reflect the complexity of the infrastructure, including powerful processors (like AMD’s Threadripper Pro) and the high-end support and service required for such systems. In short, they aren’t necessarily indicative of retail prices for consumer-grade GPUs.
Still, we can look at a few comparisons to make sense of these numbers. For example, a year ago, a server with four RTX 3090 cards was priced at $28,000, which translates to $7,000 per card, a ratio of about 7:1. Similarly, a Comino server with four RTX 4090s costs around $34,569, meaning each card would cost about $1,800 at retail. The price-to-card ratio there is closer to 4.8:1.
If we average these two ratios, we end up with an estimate of around $1,100 per RTX 5090 card, which is still significantly lower than what we expect the retail price to be. Based on Nvidia’s past pricing strategies, it wouldn’t be surprising if the RTX 5090 hits the market at $2,500 or even more.
Ultimately, while these numbers are fun to crunch, they should be taken with a grain of salt. The final retail price of Nvidia’s RTX 5090 cards could end up being much higher than anticipated. Still, the fact that these servers are priced lower than expected for their specs shows that Comino might have landed an incredible deal—or they could be massively underestimating the final price. Either way, brace yourself for a sticker shock when the RTX 5090s eventually drop.
