Did the cost of producing them go up $500?

They’re scalping their own cards. It’s naked price gouging, and they’re going to get away with it.

They killed a nice industry & all we got in return was mandatory slop, and the promise of our enslavement with extra mass wealth transfer on unimaginable scales (in the future in most industries, not just the current one happening atm).

OpenAI can't close their $30B raise, they got $11B and have scaled back their ask to $20B at a $1.2T valuation instead of $1.4T.

This will not last.

A 5090 FE is $2,000 retail on the nvidia site. If you can find one. The rest? ~$7,000. A 5080 FE is $1000.

I guess amd will follow then

Title is a bit click-baity though, since the 5090 is a silly card for most users.

"he most significant example is expected to be for SKUs based on NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 DV2, which will see an increase of up to 3,300 RMB, translating to nearly $500. Even entry-level GPUs are not exempt, as the GeForce RTX 5060 is expected to see around a $30 price increase on existing models."

Just in time for GTA6. What a coincidence.