That’s going to be a very expensive video, Linus!!
It’s ugly.
That is so true, it doesn’t even look nice.
Not to mention there is no cool technology that is unique to this SKU (redundant sub-systems, high quality materials etc.).
At least gold is a good thermal conductor? I mean copper is better and cheaper and easier to work… but its something?
People who buy shit like that have no taste.
Asus: “gold”
Buyer: what?
Asus: what?
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.
I love bent PCIe ports
The gold must make a great heatsink tho
/s
I see Asus has too much money
… so an almost prohibited “export” to China
platedgold-finned to appease the leader of the gov that brought on said restrictions. Maybe it will be a state gift.(Jk, gold look is very popular/has its place in Asia overall compared to Europe or north America. As a limited production of an exclusive high-end card centred around an already exclusive GPU, it makes marketing sense imo.)
🤢🤮
But that’s like twice the price of a regular 5090!!
/s
Um… okay. I thought this would be an article about how Asus used gold instead of copper for their PCB to study what the difference would be on modern tech.
This is just advertising garbage for douchebags.
I can’t wait for Linus to buy this, put it in a fancy build and gift it to a random on the street.
Okay, good for them I guess? … why tho?
