By Andy Patrizio
Publication Date: 2026-09-25 15:50:00
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090, its flagship graphics card for absolute top-end PC gaming, is now selling for more than $5,000 in some markets because some buyers are using them as alternatives to enterprise GPUs.
The RTX 5090 originally launched in January 2025 with a $1,999 MSRP, but it’s now is selling for more than $5,000 as AI system builders suck up the limited supply. The Hong Kong news outlet HKEPC first reported that 5090 cards—intended for playing games like Call of Duty—were being put in workstations in place of Nvidia’s enterprise card, the RTX 6000.
The 5090 and the 6000 have a lot in common and have very similar spec sheets. Both are built on the Blackwell architecture; the 6000 has 24,000 cores versus 21,000 in the 5090. The 6000 has a Max performance of 126 TFLOPS versus 104 TFLOPS for the 5090.