And that is by no means the most expensive graphics card available. Some gaming cards can hit $2000 and more. Some professional video cards can hit $5000. A few years ago, Maximum PC magazine (a magazine aimed at ‘pc enthusiasts,’ a.k.a. gamers) released what it thought was the very best gaming rig money could buy if you had an unlimited budget. It cost more than $26,000. It had four $1500 video cards, four $2000 very large 4K monitors (36", I think, it’s been a while), a $1800 CPU, $2000 worth of RAM, a four 10TB disk RAID array, a four 1TB SSD RAID array, a $1500 power supply… I stopped reading Maximum PC; those boys were crazy.
At the office, we have a few machines for video work that are fitted with dual $2000 video cards and 32" 4K monitors. They were not cheap. They do actual money-making work. They didn’t cost anywhere near $26,000.
As God is my witness, I thought that chickens could fly. Or at least glide.