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Asus showcases a $500,000 RTX 5090 ROG Astral GPU in China with 5kg of gold (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago

The GPU shroud is made up of 5kg or 11 pounds of pure 24-karat gold, upping the weight of the GPU to 7.2kg or 15.9 pounds. To put things into perspective, most RTX 5090 GPUs weigh anywhere from 2.5 to 3.0 Kg, making Asus’s newest showcase GPU 3 times heavier.

Why would you ever want a ~7 kg GPU, this makes it objectively worse than a regular high-end 5090. They could have used minimal gold coating and diamonds to keep the bling factor while maintaining a more reasonable weight.

Also it doesn't seem there are any true product benefits over the ROG Astral RTX 5090. For such a price, I would expect them to source the best binned GPU chips on the planet and other unique features.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

The gold must make a great heatsink tho

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

I love bent PCIe ports

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Horizontal mount is the only option but even then, you're putting 7 kilos on the board and a few supporting points. Maybe if you don't do it through a riser and your mobo itself is horizontal it'll hold.

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