Graphics cards are among the most important upgrades in a gaming PC. A user has now purchased a very special graphics card.
A gamer has now bought an RTX 5090 Ti. But what makes it special is: Nvidia has not yet announced this graphics card. People in the thread are joking and having fun about the graphics card mentioned.
But such fake graphics cards are not uncommon, and users often fall for them.
Nvidia has not yet announced the 5000 series
What exactly can be seen? The gamer posted a photo on reddit of a graphics card packaging. It shows an RTX 5090 Ti with DLSS 4.0. The graphics card is also supposed to be equipped with 24 GB of video memory.
Moreover, there is advertising for the game Honkai Impact 3rd on the outer packaging.
What is the problem? Officially, Nvidia has not yet announced the RTX 5000 series. So far, there isn’t even an RTX 4090 Ti. It seems that it’s no longer in the game; instead, Nvidia would prefer to focus on the next generation. Thus, RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 are likely to remain the fastest graphics cards for now.
Many users, including the poster of the picture, are well aware that a graphics card from the 5000 series cannot exist yet. Accordingly, people are joking merrily in the thread.
Such fakes are more common: websites like Temu or Aliexpress often sell graphics cards and hardware under grand promises. Often at unbeatable prices. In many cases, however, you do not receive the proper hardware, but fake products. The seller is usually long gone, and a refund is impossible. Especially a fake graphics card is notorious among gamers.
When could the RTX 5090 come? But until the RTX 5000 series is announced, it might still take some time. Various sources speculate that the RTX 5080/5090 could appear in spring 2025. However, this is all uncertain and purely speculative.
How fast the RTX 5090 could be is also not yet known. However, initial rumors suggest that GameStar Tech reports that the next generation could be significantly faster again. Many users criticized that the performance increase from the 3000 to the 4000 generation had been very limited, especially after the jump from the 2000 generation had been so large.
After the RTX 3080 had been almost twice as fast as the RTX 2080 Ti, many players were rather disappointed by the “upgrade” to the 4000 series.
A similarly worthless purchase was made recently by another player on Amazon. He wanted to buy a new Nvidia graphics card for his gaming PC, but instead, he received something completely different that is worth almost nothing:
