Ordinarily, I would be tempted to be greater than somewhat snarky a couple of golden RTX 5090, given the real-world pricing of the RTX 50-series as an entire proper now. Nevertheless, what I am unable to argue with is auctioning one off for a charitable trigger, and one specific card is more likely to attain a really excessive value certainly—as a result of it has been signed by none aside from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
As TechPowerUp studies, Huang put his distinctive mark down on an Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Version card throughout GTC 2025, and Asus says that the uber-bling card bearing his title shall be formally auctioned off to “help reduction efforts for the California wildfires in Los Angeles.”
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A noble trigger certainly. 29 individuals misplaced their lives within the Los Angeles space on account of the devastating fires earlier this yr, with hundreds of residents shedding their properties—and the whole property and capital harm is estimated to be between $95 and $164 billion.
Whereas even a Huang-signed golden RTX 5090 is unlikely to make a lot of a dent within the monetary fallout of these horrifying occasions, it may nonetheless probably be some of the precious GPUs on the planet proper now. That is primarily right down to Jensen’s scrawl, after all, but it surely’s not like the cardboard itself is of a budget and cheerful selection.
M’colleague Jacob Fox lined the Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhabab OC Version earlier this yr, and it is a sheer slab of graphics card indulgence. Asus says the GPU is a “celebration of the fast evolution of the Center East, that includes a singular skyline silhouette that signifies a transition from the sands to the skies” and boy howdy does it look fairly, even to this miserly, sour-faced Brit.
Need to purchase one for your self? All I am going to say is, good luck. Whereas the Jensen-signed card is but to go up for public sale, the usual Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 is listed for $3,360 at Newegg and Asus has not but confirmed the pricing of the Dhahab OC version.
My wager is, it will be astonishingly costly. Nonetheless, not less than this specific card helps to fund a very good trigger, so I am going to save the complete vary of my bitterness for an additional time. Oh, to be wealthy as an alternative of stunningly-good-looking. That is what I inform myself at night time, anyway.
