As Nvidia is ramps up to launch its latest RTX 50-series graphics cards in just a few weeks time, we've yet another RTX 5090 price leak ahead of the launch. Now it seems even more corroboration has come together as the price of the flagship model, the RTX 5090 has been leaked again.
Nvidia's hardware, running on Blackwell chips, is expected to be announced at Nvidia options and have consistently been the fastest graphics cards on the planet.
This latest hint as to the RTX 5090's eventual price comes from Italian outlet Bits and Chips, which has apparently been in conversation with Chinese and Japanese journalists that suggest the GPU could cost around $1900. Manufacturers have allegedly been told anywhere from $1899 to $1999 will be the expected range, lining up with pricing rumors from last month.
For reference, the RTX 4090 launched at $1599 for its Founder's Edition but has since crept up to nearly $2000 or more for overclocked cards. While extremely powerful for gaming, it has often been difficult to get hold of 4090 GPUs due to their capabilities in the AI space.
Originally, the leaks had pinned the AMD expected not to even try and compete at this extreme end of the GPU market this generation – but also because of the huge uptick in the specification of this new GPU. Hardware leakers have said that Nvidia's flagship could come with 21,760 CUDA cores and have 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM at its beck and call, with the latter potentially contributing heavily to its high price.
GDDR7 is relatively new tech and is expected to be costly in comparison to the GDDR6 and GDDR6X VRAM that have been used in the last three generations of Nvidia GPUs. Rumors did circulate in June of this year that GDDR7 production might be delayed, but SK Hyinx refuted the claim.
The RTX 40-series was not particularly received with open arms like its predecessor, the 30-series, due to some slightly disappointing spec increases and high prices. However, these cards have still gone on to dominate our RTX 5090 review to pour over the performance stats for this incredibly powerful new GPU in our first real-world testing.