Shopping for goodies from a stylish 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’ll’t really eat. However you’ll be able to when you’re attending Nvidia’s GPU Know-how 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 all people rush to San Jose directly. The impossible-to-find playing cards will solely be offered to GTC attendees—apparently alongside merch shirts and puffy vests—who’re already paying greater than a thousand {dollars} for the most cost effective 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 are going for practically legendary retail costs.
Even Nvidia solely has a pair thousand playing cards available—1,000 every for the RTX 5080 and 5090, in keeping with Tom’s {Hardware}. They’re being offered 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 right this moment and tomorrow, exhibiting off largely AI and industrial merchandise, together with some new Nvidia-branded desktops and mini PCs. The individuals who really purchase these playing cards shall be largely builders or in any other case poised to make use of them for one thing apart from PC gaming. That stated, it wouldn’t be all that stunning if a number of the playing cards offered on the present pop up on eBay or Craigslist proper afterward. In spite of everything, flipping a scorching merchandise would possibly simply cowl a first-class ticket house.
