r/SipsTea • u/SunnSaiyaan • 1d ago

Chugging tea Chinese bride gifts her partner a flagship GPU at wedding he breaks down in tears

That's an ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 that costs around $12,000

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u/xDom01 1d ago

What kind of setup needs a $12k card? I’m guessing either he’s a self-employed software dev or a hardcore gamer?

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u/Not_a_real_ghost 1d ago

the GPU weren't "meant" to be that expensive so people could afford it. Sure this is top of the line consumer stuff. The GPU used to cost like 1/5 of a PC's build cost but not anymore because shift in market demand and ai stuff

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u/xXDreamlessXx 1d ago

It ain't supposed to be that high, but AI exists

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u/Possible_Box_8354 1d ago

That'll only give you 90 fps at 4k in Wardogs.

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u/PeaceHoesAnCamelToes 1d ago

But at least it can run Crysis.

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u/Vatnam 1d ago

Nobody needs 4k resolution

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u/revcor86 1d ago

The 5090 is/was a prosumer card. Basically, if you buy it for gaming, you were flexing you could afford it. No gamer needs it, just status at that point.

Certain devs and such could use it for other, non-gaming, stuff that they want to run locally instead of paying for cloud compute.

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u/oodex 1d ago

When I bought mine it was around 4k. I am self-employed and use it for editing videos, but its a pretty common practice in gaming to buy top gear-1 for a long enduring custom pc. That said, CPU and GPU are most common to be a top gear-0, so what's considered the best. Simply because its usually the hardest and costliest to replace under pressure when the old one fails.

Ai topic has skyrocketed graphic card prices across the board, but especially top cards.

Back some time ago I bought top-1 for myself, but if I would've had the money I would've bought -0. Its all a question of what you can and are willing to spare

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u/Dap-aha 1d ago

I dont really understand people building monster PCs for gaming these days

The big AAA studios games arent very demanding because theyre limited by ageing consoles

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u/hogester79 1d ago

You don’t actually need to understand, all you need to know is some people have hobbies and want the best, others don’t care that much.

No one needs a Bugatti or a 100m motor yacht and yet they exist. People want what people want.

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u/Metalheadzaid 1d ago

The MSRP for said card was like $2800ish. Either way, that was already AI juiced prices from the last couple years as well.

The computer needed to run this full blast is not that expensive - and just a year ago prior to RAM shortages would have cost around $1000 (9800x3d, 32gb ram). PC gaming is only really expensive because of AI right now.

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u/xSonicspeedx2 1d ago

Hardcore would have to be an understatement. For a card like that I’m thinking more in the territory of a professional gamer.

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u/JD4Destruction 1d ago

It is an overkill for games but great for local AI.

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u/MauriseS 1d ago

5090 started at like 3000$. Just like anything hardware related to AI, the prices jumped because data centers hog all the capacity for chips. My 32GB RAM kit was 200$, its now 1500$. Cant wait for the bubble to burst and prices comming down.