Hardware

On 29/10/2026 the cheapest in-stock RTX 5090s averaged A$12,249, and the RTX 5080s averaged A$2,832. A shop with no card in stock is left out of the average.

The AI hardware landscape has shifted significantly in 2026, with NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel all competing for developers who need GPUs capable of running local large language models and AI inference workloads.

Australia has RTX 5090 stock. Barely. And if you find one, you will pay a premium that feels detached from reality.

Today we are looking at the top-level consumer GPUs, and RAM modules. Specifically I’m looking at RTX-5080 and RTX-5090 prices, and 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 6000.

The NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10 Grace Blackwell) is now available in Australia at major PC retailers with local stock. If you’ve been following the global DGX Spark pricing and availability, you’ll be interested to know that in January 2026 Australian pricing ranged from $6,249 to $7,999 AUD depending on storage configuration and retailer. The 29/10/2026 listings are in the section further down.

With this crazy RAM prices volatility, to form and have a better picture, let’s track the RAM price in Australia ourselves first.

The memory market is experiencing unprecedented price volatility in late 2025, with RAM prices surging dramatically across all segments.

Let’s compare prices for top-level consumer GPUs, that are suitable for LLMs in particular and AI in general. Specifically I’m looking at RTX-5080 and RTX-5090 prices.

The democratization of AI is here. With open-source LLMs like Llama, Mistral, and Qwen now rivaling proprietary models, teams can build powerful AI infrastructure using consumer hardware - slashing costs while maintaining complete control over data privacy and deployment.

NVIDIA DGX Spark is real, on sale Oct 15, 2025, and targeted at CUDA developers needing local LLM work with an integrated NVIDIA AI stack. US MSRP $3,999; UK/DE/JP retail is higher due to VAT and channel. AUD/KRW public sticker prices are not yet widely posted on 15/10/2025. The 29/10/2026 check is in the later street-price section.

Let’s compare prices for top-level consumer GPUs, that are suitable for LLMs in particular and AI in general. Specifically I’m looking at RTX-5080 and RTX-5090 prices. They have slightly dropped.

GPU load monitoring applications: nvidia-smi vs nvtop vs nvitop vs KDE plasma systemmonitor.

Nvidia is about to release NVIDIA DGX Spark - little AI supercomputer on blackwell architecture with 128+GB unified RAM and 1 PFLOPS AI performance. Nice device to run LLMs.

Let’s compare prices for top-level consumer GPUs, that are suitable for LLMs in particular and AI overall. Specifically have a look at RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 prices. They have slighty dropped.

Just 3 month ago we didn’t see RTX 5090 in shops, and now here they are, but the prices are slightly higher then MRSP. Let’s compare the cheapest prices for RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 in Australia and see how it goes.

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