At least two workstation specialists have put superchared PCs with NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs for sale in recent days. The most impressive of all is the Bizon ZX5500 which contains up to seven (yes, seven) GPU RTX 5090 cooled by water in a housing high. It is the best GPU ever built and buy it via systems manufacturers seems to be the only way to avoid months of waiting.
Although the Bizontech solution will probably appear in our best workstation guide, it is not as vast as the large Comino server, which has eight GPU RTX 5090, but the latter has not yet obtained Launch (I contacted Comino for more details).
The ZX5500 is not cheap at just under $ 102,000, GPUs account for the lion’s share (more than 83%) of the total cost. It is almost 3 times the price of Mifcom Big Boss which has seven GPU RTX 4090 cooled by liquid.
A more robust 6 kW food unit and the cards cost an additional $ 85,000 compared to the same system with a pair of RTX 5080 (with 16 GB of VOI each). As a reminder, the suggested retail price of the RTX 5090 is “just” $ 2,000.
The ZX5500 can be updated on a 96 -core Threadripper Pro processor with 1 TB of RAM DDR5, almost 1pb of SSD PCIe 4.0 (15 x 61.44 to SSD) and seven NVIDIA H200 AI GPU; Such a configuration pushes the price greater than half a million US dollars.
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Bizontech is a niche shop supplier specializing in servers, workstations and clusters for AI, Deep Learning and HPC. The RTX 5090 is exhausted almost everywhere and it seems that Nvidia favors creative business and outlets like Bizontech, Puget Systems and Punch Technology, with workstations apparently ready to be shipped in a few days rather than per week.
Jon Bach, president of Puget Systems said to me: “The supply for the 5090 (and 5080) is very limited, and we expect it to be at least until March. Puget Systems has a good number of cards in hand at the moment because of our OEM relationships, but we seem to be somewhat unusual in this regard. Overall, we fill in orders, but we are waiting for our deadlines to be assigned to the improvement of the offer. “”
The creative crowd will love the RTX 5090 because it erases absolutely everything on its way but at a price. Puget Systems and StorageReView compared it to a wide range of AI and creative tests and found that it worked much better than previous generations (and the best AMD cards), but with a much higher power plant .
John Loeffler from Techradar recently published a RTX 5090 review, calling her the supercar of graphics cards and asking her if she was simply too powerful, which suggests that it is a Absolute glutton for power. He continues: “It is exaggerated, especially if you only want it for the game, because the monitors who can really manage the frames that this GPU can extinguish is probably years.”
Of course, this will not be relevant for Nvidia’s plans to launch an even more powerful version of RTX 5090, one with a 96 GB GDDR7 memory of 96 GB which will replace the RTX 6000 ADA in due course. If this card follows the same inflationary trajectory as its consumer version, I will not be surprised if its ticket price reaches $ 15,000, which makes it the most expensive graphics card of all time.
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