The Possible Price of Nvidia’s RTX 5090 Graphics Cards and What It Means for Consumers
As we approach the early 2025 release window for Nvidia’s RTX 5090 graphics cards, one thing is clear: they won’t be cheap. While Nvidia hasn’t made any official announcements, we’re already seeing early price speculations based on European server pre-orders, which give us an insight into the potential cost of these powerful GPUs.
The latest news comes from German system integrator Comino, which has announced new AI-focused servers loaded with RTX 5090 cards. While the servers are designed for businesses and industrial use, their prices give us a rough idea of how much we might be paying for individual RTX 5090 GPUs when they hit the market. According to the details revealed by HardwareLuxx (via VideoCardz.com), Comino is selling a server with eight RTX 5090s for 50,000 euro (approximately $52,700 USD), and a six-card version for 40,000 euro (around $42,300 USD).
Breaking it down, that puts the price of each RTX 5090 card at about $6,500 for the eight-card setup. While that’s an enormous price for a business server, it’s important to remember that these are multi-card configurations, packed with high-end processors like AMD’s Threadripper Pro, extensive service contracts, and other enterprise-grade components. This makes it difficult to translate these prices directly into consumer costs.
To get a better understanding, let’s compare these numbers to previous servers. A Comino Grando server with four RTX 3090 cards was priced at $28,000, or $7,000 per card. The price per card dropped a bit with the RTX 4090; a server featuring four RTX 4090s currently costs $34,569, or around $1,800 per card.
If we average these ratios, we get a rough price of $1,100 per RTX 5090 card, based on the six-card server configuration. Of course, this is far from an accurate prediction—consumer prices are likely to be higher, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see RTX 5090s retail for $2,500 or more.
Ultimately, these early price estimates suggest that Nvidia’s next-gen graphics cards will likely be priced significantly higher than their predecessors. But given the complexity and scale of the hardware involved in these business-to-business sales, it’s difficult to draw definitive conclusions about consumer prices just yet. As always, we’ll have to wait for official announcements and product releases to see where the chips (and prices) fall.