This RTX 5090 is the cheapest you can get this Black Friday season — Zotac's $2,549 Solid OC card delivers exotic performance with minimal fuss

The GeForce RTX 5090 needs no introduction at this point. If you want one, you know it. If you can afford one, you know it. If you've been waiting for prices to come down again on these cards during Black Friday season, you also know they've been marked up into the stratosphere this entire time. So, hope for a deal has been dim.

• Zotac Solid OC RTX 5090 for $2549 at Newegg

Imagine our surprise today when Zotac's Solid OC RTX 5090 popped up for $2,549 at Newegg. While that's still far from Nvidia's $1,999 MSRP, it's still hundreds of dollars less than we can find air-cooled RTX 5090s for anywhere else. If you've been waiting for a cheaper RTX 5090 to pop up to satisfy your gaming performance dreams, this may be the one.

Zotac's Solid OC card doesn't have tons of RGB LED flash, but its massive triple-fan cooler and vapor-chamber heatsink design should be more than up to the task of delivering the full performance potential of the RTX 5090's 21,760 CUDA cores and 32GB of GDDR7 RAM.

If you're gunning for 4K gaming supremacy and beyond, the RTX 5090 is your ticket to smooth frame rates even with all settings maxed out and all rays traced. Nothing else comes close.

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)

With AI data center demand sucking up every available silicon wafer these days, RTX 5090 prices seem poised to rise even further in the coming months and remain there for a long time. If you've been on the fence about picking up one of these cards, we'd jump now while prices remain relatively reasonable.

Grab the Zotac Solid OC RTX 5090 for $2549 at Newegg before it sells out and enjoy the best gaming experience on Earth this holiday season.

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