The first salvo of RTX 50 series GPU will arrive in January, with pricing starting at $549 for the RTX 5070 and topping out at an eye-watering $1,999 for the flagship RTX 5090. In between those are the $749 RTX 5070 Ti and $999 RTX 5080. Laptop variants of the desktop GPUs will follow in March, with pricing there starting at $1,299 for 5070-equipped PCs.
I’m probably one of those people. I don’t have kids, I don’t care much about fun things like vacations, fancy food, or yearly commodity electronics like phones or leased cars, and I’m lucky enough to not have any college debt left.
A Scrooge McDuck vault of unused money isn’t going to do anything useful when I’m 6 feet underground, so I might as well spend a bit more (within reason*) on one of the few things that I do get enjoyment out of.
* Specifically: doing research on what I want; waiting for high-end parts to go on sale; never buying marked-up AIB partner GPUs; and only actually upgrading things every 5~6 years after I’ve gotten good value out of my last frivolous purchase.