Wednesday, June 18th 2025
ASUS RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition Raises $24,200 in Charity Auction
ASUS has recently held a charity auction with special edition ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition graphics card signed by NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang. ASUS managed to raise $24,200, which will go to the TZU CHI USA Foundation, a volunteer-based non-governmental organization providing charitable assistance, medical aid, disaster relief, and educational services, and environmental protection programs to those in need.
The auction period lasted from June 4 to June 13, and showing how tight the race was, the three highest bidders were just $10 apart. As the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition is quite a rare graphics card and sold exclusively in the Middle East, the one signed by Jensen Huang is quite a catch. Hopefully, it won't end up on eBay.
In case you missed it, the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition, is actually embedded with gold (6.5 g), has all the high-end features like 80 amp MOSFETs, patented vapor chamber, factory overclock, and the first ASUS ROG quad-fan setup. It also goes for AED 24,999.00, which is around $6,800. ASUS has announced the new ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 Dhahab CORE OC Edition, which is pretty much the identical card, just with the RTX 5080 GPU.
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The auction period lasted from June 4 to June 13, and showing how tight the race was, the three highest bidders were just $10 apart. As the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition is quite a rare graphics card and sold exclusively in the Middle East, the one signed by Jensen Huang is quite a catch. Hopefully, it won't end up on eBay.
3 Comments on ASUS RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition Raises $24,200 in Charity Auction
the card has already "made" its impact of raising money, any future sale online would not negate that, ignoring the buyer owns it,
up to them what they do with it. i rather see it being sold to someone that will use the card, vs being "put on display" in a glass box.
for $24K you could have had the entire fin stack made of gold and everything else gold plated to boot
or someone that was willing to donate +20K for a good cause, and got a (signed) gpu for free.
i mean you wouldnt call someone a sucker for spending +5K of their own money, to travel to a 3rd world country/region for 2 weeks of their vacation time, to treat ppl (as in med Dr),
while getting nothing in return. ;)