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Cale Hunt

5 reasons not to buy an NVIDIA RTX 5000 GPU (and 3 ways it's worth it)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition (front) compared to RTX 5090 Founders Edition (rear).

The first of NVIDIA's RTX 5000 GPUs launched on January 30, with the RTX 5070 Ti following up on February 20. As I await the delayed launch of the RTX 5070, I sat back to take a look at all of the issues plaguing NVIDIA's launch.

I'm not here to convince you not to buy an RTX 5000 GPU. You can spend your money any way you want. I am, however, attempting to quell some of the demand by laying out some very good reasons why you shouldn't invest in NVIDIA's latest hardware, at least right now.

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