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It can be expensive to buy food from a trendy mobile food truck. I’ll bet even the most desperate TikTok foodie won’t have spent more than a thousand dollars on something they couldn’t eat. You can if you attend Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, where the company sells its RTX graphics cards 5080 and 5090 from a pop up “food truck”.
Do not rush to San Jose. The impossible-to-find cards will only be sold to GTC attendees–apparently alongside merch shirts and puffy vests–who are already paying more than a thousand dollars for the cheapest ticket to see the newest industrial hardware from Nvidia and its partners. No, these passes do not get you any discounts, as some of the cards are from AIB Partners and are not the Founder’s Editions GPUs that sell for almost mythical retail prices.
According to reports, Nvidia has only a few thousand cards in stock. That’s 1,000 each for the RTX5080 and 5090. Tom’s HardwareThey’re sold in random small batches. One tweet/X post Yesterday said that the store would sell 90 of them in the next 30 minutes.
GTC will continue today and tomorrow. It will feature a lot of AI and industrial products including some new Nvidia desktops and mini-PCs. Most of the people who buy these cards are developers or other people who plan to use them in a different way than PC gaming. It wouldn’t surprise me if some cards sold at the show were to be found on Craigslist or eBay shortly after. Flipping a hot item could cover the cost of a first class ticket home.
Michael Crideris a Staff Writer at PCWorld
Michael has been in technology journalism for 10 years, covering everything from Apple and ZTE. He is the resident keyboard nut at PCWorld, always testing out a new keyboard for a review. In his spare time he builds a mechanical board or expands his desktop “battlestation” . Michael has written for Android Police, Digital Trends Wired, Lifehacker and How-To Geek. He’s also covered live events like CES or Mobile World Congress. Michael lives in Pennsylvania and is always looking forward to the next kayaking trip.
