Shopping for goodies from a classy meals truck can get costly. However I’ll guess that even essentially the most determined TikTok foodie hasn’t dropped greater than a grand directly on one thing they will’t truly eat. However you may when you’re attending Nvidia’s GPU Expertise Convention (GTC), the place the corporate is promoting its RTX 5080 and 5090 graphics playing cards from a pop-up “meals truck” gross sales stall.
Don’t everyone rush to San Jose directly. The impossible-to-find playing cards will solely be bought to GTC attendees—apparently alongside merch shirts and puffy vests—who’re already paying greater than a thousand {dollars} for the most affordable ticket to see the latest industrial {hardware} from Nvidia and its companions. And no, these passes don’t get you any reductions on the playing cards, a few of that are from AIB companions and never the Founder’s Version GPUs which might be going for practically legendary retail costs.
Even Nvidia solely has a pair thousand playing cards readily available—1,000 every for the RTX 5080 and 5090, in line with Tom’s {Hardware}. They’re being bought in small batches at random occasions. One Twitter/X put up from yesterday says that the shop will promote 90 of them for the subsequent half-hour.
GTC continues at the moment and tomorrow, exhibiting off principally AI and industrial merchandise, together with some new Nvidia-branded desktops and mini PCs. The individuals who truly purchase these playing cards can be principally builders or in any other case poised to make use of them for one thing aside from PC gaming. That stated, it wouldn’t be all that shocking if a number of the playing cards bought on the present pop up on eBay or Craigslist proper afterward. In spite of everything, flipping a sizzling merchandise would possibly simply cowl a first-class ticket house.
