Asus's latest RTX 5090 GPU is not one you can simply buy or even pick up from a shelf with ease. This is not the first luxury item from the Taiwanese brand however, which has also released a Middle Eastern exclusive gold edition for approximately $ 7,000 previously.
  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    141·
    5 days 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.

      • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        6·
        4 days 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.