If you were in the market for a new RTX 5090 graphics card and want something unique to go with it, Gigabyte is bundling a full gram of pure gold with each of its 40th anniversary special editions of the card, TechSpot reports. You need to be a resident of Taiwan to pre-order the card, then register it with Gigabyte to get it…but either way, gold!
Gigabyte turns 40 this year and has a long, storied history of motherboard production and innovation, especially in recent years with graphics cards and power supplies. It developed the first software-controlled PSU in 2007, and was the first to launch a Z68 motherboard with an onboard mSATA connection in 2011. And now it’s bundling gold with GPUs.
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Gigabyte has launched several products to celebrate its 40th anniversary, but the flagship is its special-edition Aorus Infinity RTX 5090. It’s a heavily overclocked, specially binned version of the now-classic RTX 5090. It has the same 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM and dual 16-pin power connectors, but the boost clock has been raised significantly to 2,730MHz—over 300MHz more than the reference card’s.
As you might expect from a special edition of what is already the most expensive consumer GPU, this 40th anniversary card is even more expensive. It’s listed at NT$165,000, or around $5,250. The “gram of 999 pure gold” is worth around $185. So, a slight savings if you sell it?
Regardless of what you do with the gold when you have it, keen buyers who also reside in Taiwan have until June 7 to pre-order the card, then send Gigabyte the invoice for the purchase to receive the “gold item.”
