{"id":1655292,"date":"2026-08-06T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/SKXQr3MYfHigMkwEDowZAG"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:33:16","slug":"it-is-genuinely-cheaper-for-me-to-fly-to-quakecon-and-buy-a-rtx-5090-at-the-nvidia-booth-than-pick-up-the-gpu-absolutely-anywhere-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/it-is-genuinely-cheaper-for-me-to-fly-to-quakecon-and-buy-a-rtx-5090-at-the-nvidia-booth-than-pick-up-the-gpu-absolutely-anywhere-else\/","title":{"rendered":"It is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to QuakeCon and buy a RTX 5090 at the Nvidia booth than pick up the GPU absolutely anywhere else"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Take it from me, a gamer rocking the last-gen Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super<\/a> and still loving life: your rig doesn’t need <\/em>the most bleeding edge graphics card. That’s especially true when the 50-series cards can easily set you back many more smackers than Nvidia’s MSRP. The RTX 5090<\/a> is especially bad for this right now, with the cheapest deal I can find anywhere online still being $4,500<\/a>\/\u00a33,499<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The company appears all too aware of the runaway pricing of these GPUs. Case in point, Nvidia set up ‘Verified Priority Access IRL’ at its QuakeCon booth this year<\/a>, offering attendees the chance to buy either the GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080<\/a>, or RTX 5070 Founders Edition<\/a> for MSRP “while supplies last”.<\/p>\n

Sadly, to get a decent deal on an RTX 5090 these days, flying out to Quakecon may actually not be the most outrageous idea. As I’m based in the UK, the cheapest round trip flight to Dallas, Texas I can find would cost me about $1,428. Add to that the RTX 5090’s $1,999 MSRP, and the $16.50 price of admission to Quakecon, plus some no doubt hellish jet lag, and I will have only had to spend a little over $3,443 (or roughly \u00a32,556) total on Nvidia’s most powerful graphics card. That’s ridiculous.<\/p>\n

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