Expensive hardware Memes

Crawling through the desert of GPU prices while NVIDIA laughs all the way to the bank. The RTX 5090 costs a kidney and your firstborn at $3000, but somehow we still convince ourselves it's worth it for those extra 5 FPS in Minecraft. Meanwhile, the perfectly capable RX 9070 XT sits there at $850 like the reasonable choice nobody wants to make. Because nothing says "responsible adult" like eating ramen for six months to render ray-traced reflections in puddles slightly better.