No less than two workstation specialists have put supercharged PCs with Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs on sale over the previous few days. Probably the most spectacular of all of them is the Bizon ZX5500 which packs as much as seven (sure, seven) water-cooled 32GB RTX 5090 GPUs in a tall tower casing. That is one of the best GPU ever constructed and shopping for it by means of system builders appears to be the one technique to keep away from months-long wait.
Whereas BizonTech’s resolution will in all probability function in our greatest workstation information, it isn’t as expansive as Comino’s Grando server, which has eight RTX 5090 GPUs, however the latter has but to get a launch date (I contacted Comino for extra particulars).
The ZX5500 doesn’t come low-cost at slightly below $102,000 with the GPUs accounting the lion share (greater than 83%) of the full price. That’s nearly 3x the worth of MIFCOM’s Large Boss which has seven liquid-cooled RTX 4090 GPUs.
A beefier 6Kw energy provide unit plus and the playing cards price an additional $85,000 in comparison with the identical system with a pair of RTX 5080 (with 16GB VRAM every). As a reminder, the instructed retail value of the RTX 5090 is ‘just’ $2000.
An RTX 5090 on its retail packaging on a desk (Picture credit score: Future)
RTX 5090 GPUs, the place are you?
I wrote two weeks in the past in regards to the Bizontech ZX5500, a 7-GPU RTX 5090 system that, not like the Grando Comino, could be paired with a dual-core EPYC CPU however had a a lot larger entry value at $102,000. Different boutique workstation distributors have additionally managed to safe RTX 5090 models (albeit with a 4-6 weeks leadtime).
UK-based Punch Expertise is taking orders for a Threadripper Professional rendering AI workstation with two GPUs, a Threadripper Professional 7995WX, 256GB of RAM and a sticker value of slightly below £24,000 (about $30,000).
For a bit extra, native rival Scan Computer systems, sells an EPYC-based workstation with eight RTX 5090 for nearly two thirds what Comino expenses for its system. I reached out to them on X.com (previously Twitter) to seek out out whether or not this can be a real value, a placeholder or a careless mistake.
(ed: Seems it’s a one-year subscription to Scan’s Cloud Workstation service, much more disappointing then)
Puget programs, whose President blamed very restricted provide of RTX 5090 for lengthy lead instances, is barely promoting single-GPU configurations for now, though I did discover which you could get a system (the T140-XL) with two 16GB Nvidia RTX 5080 GPUs for a bit lower than $13,000, able to ship in lower than two weeks.
Different workstation specialists which might be promoting RTX 5090 rigs embrace:
In style workstation outfit Titan Computer systems, and not one of the three massive PC producers (Dell, Lenovo and HP) have but to launch RTX 5090 workstations.
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In his evaluation of the RTX 5090, TechRadar’s John Loeffler calls it the supercar of graphics playing cards, and asks whether or not it was just too highly effective, suggesting that it’s an absolute glutton for wattage.
“It’s overkill”, he quips, “especially if you only want it for gaming, since monitors that can truly handle the frames this GPU can put out are likely years away.”
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