The Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 Dhahab has appeared as soon as once more, however this time it isn’t within the Center East. As a substitute, the cardboard is gearing up for a US launch, solely it seems to be lacking the one enormous characteristic that made the opposite Dhahab playing cards distinctive. Oh, and it prices $900 above MSRP.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 presently sits on our information to the very best graphics card, particularly as the very best underneath $1,000. This makes the Asus Dhahab version seem like an extremely poor worth card by comparability, particularly when it seems to be lacking the core characteristic that makes the Dhahab Version playing cards stand out… the gold.
We have been protecting the Dhahab graphics playing cards since they first popped up round three months in the past as a Center East unique. These RTX 5090 Dhahab playing cards embody 6.5g of 24-carat gold within the design and retail for about $10,600 after foreign money conversion.
Scalpers would go on to attempt to promote the playing cards for as a lot as $23,000 on eBay, though we solid loads of doubt over the legitimacy of those listings on condition that they seem to share the identical ‘real-world’ product photographs.
Subsequent got here the RTX 5080 Dhahab, utilizing the identical 6.5g of 24-carat gold in its design and having the identical regional exclusivity. Now, the US is getting the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 Dhahab Core. There is a curious lack of a single point out of “gold” on Asus’ product web page for this graphics card, suggesting that no actual gold is utilized in it in any respect. Certainly, if there was even an oz. of gold within the card, Asus would no less than point out it?
Regardless of this, nonetheless, the cardboard comes with an MSRP of $1,899.99, which is $900 greater than the RTX 5080’s $999.99 MSRP. Principally, you are paying 90% above MSRP for a golden graphics card that comprises no precise gold. However hey, no less than you get a GPU overclock and one month freed from Adobe Artistic Cloud along with your buy.
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