GeForce RTX 5090
The fastest consumer card on earth, and the only one with 32GB. You pay for every gram of it.
Average in-stock listing $8,890 on Sep 26, 2026 (lowest $6,200), 4.4 times the $1,999 launch MSRP. See its price history. The links open live listings. Amazon links may earn us a commission.
Will it run your models?
VRAM meterLocal AI fit: 32B with headroom, 70B with partial CPU offload. Rule of thumb for 4-bit quantized models; context length and other apps eat into the same memory.
Open models that fit comfortably at Q4
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B 36B · 20.1 GiB · headroom 10.4 GiB
- DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B 32.8B · 18.3 GiB · headroom 12.2 GiB
- Qwen3 32B 32.8B · 18.3 GiB · headroom 12.2 GiB
- Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 32.5B · 18.2 GiB · headroom 12.3 GiB
- Gemma 4 31B IT 31.3B · 17.5 GiB · headroom 13.0 GiB
- Qwen3 30B-A3B 30.5B · 17.0 GiB · headroom 13.5 GiB
- GLM-4.7-Flash 30B · 16.8 GiB · headroom 13.7 GiB
- Qwen3.6 27B 27.8B · 15.5 GiB · headroom 15.0 GiB
Tight but possible: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct v0.1.
What it costs to run
575W of board power, 4 hours a day under load, priced at the residential electricity rate where you live. Pick a state and the numbers update.
Board power is the rated maximum; real gaming load usually sits below it and idle is a few watts, so treat this as the ceiling. Rates: EIA residential average, May 2026. See every card ranked by running cost →
Why you buy it
- 32GB VRAM, the consumer ceiling
- Fastest raster and ray tracing available
- GDDR7 bandwidth headroom for AI inference
Why you hesitate
- 575W board power needs a serious PSU and case airflow
- Street price frequently sits above the $1,999 MSRP
- Overkill for pure 1440p gaming
The editor's take
Nothing else ships 32GB of VRAM in a consumer slot, which makes this the default endgame card for local AI work: 32B-class models run comfortably where every other card taps out. As a pure gaming purchase the price is hard to defend against cards half its cost. Buy it for the memory, enjoy the frames as a side effect.
Decided?
Live listings for the GeForce RTX 5090, straight from the retailers.
Average in-stock listing $8,890 on Sep 26, 2026 (lowest $6,200), 4.4 times the $1,999 launch MSRP. See its price history. Amazon links may earn us a commission.