Тоні Ю, голова Asus China, демонструє RTX 5090 ROG Astral Real Gold Edition / Asus
Say hello to the most expensive graphics card ever made. Asus RTX 5090 ROG Astral Real Gold Edition is made of gold.
The video card contains 5 kg of gold, which currently costs about $100 thousand per kg. The cost of the card itself, the most expensive in the NVIDIA lineup, seems to be just a miserable addition to this. In total, the Real Gold Edition weighs 7.2 kg. Obviously, it is will require strong additional fastening in the case, but this should not be a problem for its owner. However It will be very disappointing if the video card burns out.
Website VideoCardz says that NVIDIA artificial intelligence chips, which are usually not widely publicized, cost about $50,000, so you can get a fairly powerful server for ten times that amount. However, it is unlikely that your favorite game will run on it.
Recently, Asus has also introduced the ROG Astral Dhahab Edition series from RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 costing $10,000 and even more. However, they may not seem luxurious enough to some, as they contain only 6.5 grams of gold in the finish. But even without real gold, video cards and AI chips have become «gold» for NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company worth $4 trillion.