What a ripoff, considering that a 5090 with 32GB of VRAM also currently costs $3k ;)
(Source: I just received the one I ordered from Newegg a week ago for $2919. I used hotstocks.io to alert me that it was available, but I wasn’t super fast at clicking and still managed to get it. Things have cooled down a lot from the craziness of early February.)
That's probably because the 5000 series seems to be a big let-down. It's pretty much identical to the 4000 series in efficiency; they've only increased performance by massively increasing power usage.
When I needed 21 3090s and none were available but for ridiculously high prices, I bought Dell Alienware comps, stripped them out, and sold the rest. Definitely made my money back mining for crypto with those cards. Dell surprisingly has a lot of computers with great RTX cards in stock.
On the 21st I bought a 5080 from that seller "Wundshop", today is the 24th and there is still no progress on the status of the package (nor will there be any more progress). I contacted Amazon for them to investigate or do something, but they told me to wait until the 28th (which is the last day they have for me to receive the package).
Don't they supposedly have to have the item in Amazon's warehouse to sell it?
The vendor disappeared a few hours after my comment and now his Amazon store doesn't exist anymore, replaced by another vendor with no sales but normal prices :) . Even if the seller was written as a german company "Wundshop" it was only registered on Amazon Spain
More like 700 € if you are lucky. Prices are still not back down from the start of the AI boom.
I am hopeful that the prices will drop a bit more with Intel's recently announced Arc Pro B60 with 24GB VRAM, which unfortunately has only half the memory bandwidth of the RTX 3090.
Not sure why other hardware makers are so slow to catch up. Apple really was years ahead of the competition with the M1 Ultra with 800 GB/s memory bandwidth.
This is still too much, a single 4090 costs $3k