Nvidia Sells RTX GPUs From a 'Food Truck' (pcworld.com) 29
Nvidia is selling its scarce RTX 5080 and 5090 graphics cards from a pop-up "food truck" at its GPU Technology Conference, where attendees paying over $1,000 for tickets can purchase the coveted hardware alongside merchandise. The company has only 2,000 cards available (1,000 each of RTX 5080 and 5090), released in small batches at random times during the three-day conference which concludes tomorrow.
Pricey Chips! (Score:1)
Careful! (Score:2, Troll)
If ICE hears about this your food truck vendors will disappear!
Pay play and hope (Score:5, Insightful)
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Grifting and price gouging. This is the new way of things apparently. The average human intelligence has dropped low enough to allow this.
Lol no. (Score:2)
Re:Lol no. (Score:4, Informative)
If you're at NVidia GTC, you're probably not buying these cards to play games on them. You're either trying to develop a next generation graphics engine, or you're trying to run your own local AI model.
Either way, you're probably expensing this overpriced graphics card to your employer when you get home.
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That's not even hyperbole. Gaming makes up like a fifth of their revenue or less these days. [visualcapitalist.com] NVidia without the bubble is dead.
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From the last quarterly report [nvidia.com], total revenue was $39.3 billion, with gaming being $2.5 billion, which is 6.3%
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I was one of the early buyers of the Arc Battlemage. I love it, it's been trouble free and a massive upgrade from my Radeon 6600. Just under $300 shipped.
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The Battlemage is a pretty impressive and promising card, but most benchmark sites are putting it about on par with the 6600. More VRAM on the Battlemage which is nice but speed wise about the same.
I've got a 6600 XT and will either do a 700 series Battlemage if they come out or a 9070 XT, but I'm in now big hurry to upgrade.
$1000 just for a ticket? (Score:4, Interesting)
So many questions:
Does that $1k ticket guarantee the opportunity to buy?
Can you get a refund if you don't buy?
Does the $1k toward your GPU purchase?
Or is this all just $1k price for a ticket to even go to GTC, and lucky you, you can buy a card at MSRP?
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1k for a professional conference with networking opportunities is very typical.
That's the cost of a 1 day pass at GDC these days, and I've seen similar prices in the professional author space when publishers are attending and soliciting work(I'm not an author). As a programmer, things have historically been a bit cheaper, mostly because there doesn't seem to be One Big Name in the software industry, so they have to compete.
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That's quadruple what I was charged to go to one of those things. That was a decade ago, nothing to do with AI, but many of the same companies were there.
Hopefully whoever is going to this conference has their employer paying for it.
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The thousand bucks gets you a T-Shirt with Jensen's face on it, and a chance to buy an RTX 50 from a dilapidated van that smells like bean burritos.
How are they served? (Score:4, Funny)
Nvidia is selling its scarce RTX 5080 and 5090 graphics cards from a pop-up "food truck" ...
Do fries come the them and how is the 5090 prepared: baked, steamed, fried or just melted [theverge.com]? :-)
Chip and Chips (Score:2)
Do fries come the them and how is the 5090 prepared
Bringing Fish and Chips into the digital age: one chip is used to fry the other.
Clearly not a "food truck" (Score:3)
If there is no facility to make food within said truck..... then it's not a food truck.
"upgrades! upgrade! get your upgrades here!" (Score:1)
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Ohh memories! great game, the Syndicate!
Food Truck name (Score:3)
need more Pokemon hype (Score:1)
NVIDIA cards dropping like Pokemon boxes at Costco
What would be more useful (Score:2)
if I could get food out of my graphics card