News Nvidia gives away five classic GPUs signed by CEO Jensen Huang personally — the first two are the GeForce 256 and GeForce 8800 Ultra

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Ahead of CES 2025, Nvidia is giving away five classic GPUs signed by CEO Jensen Huang.

Nvidia gives away five classic GPUs signed by CEO Jensen Huang personally — the first two are the GeForce 256 and GeForce 8800 Ultra : Read more

 

[Zforgetaboutit]

I see a signed box, not a signed GPU. There's no proof that the CEO manually signed it, is there?

Think of a hardball box signed by Mickey Mantle, not a signed ball. Value? ~$0,

 

[8086]

The amazing part: all of these flagship GPUs sold for well under $500. Nowadays Huang has turned the cost part of Moore's law on it's head.

 

[J4ck1nth3b0x]

Please Scotty beam me back to the 90's, as I want to relive the moment, my biggest investment back then was a 3DFX Voodoo2.

 

[thestryker]

The amazing part: all of these flagship GPUs sold for well under $500. Nowadays Huang has turned the cost part of Moore's law on it's head.

The 8800 Ultra launched at $800+ and the 8800 GTX $600+

I don't disagree with you at all regarding the current pricing, but the GeForce 8000 series was crazy high pricing on launch. The 8800 GT is the card most people remember because instead of it just being a late refresh it turned performance vs price on its head.

 

[spongiemaster]

The amazing part: all of these flagship GPUs sold for well under $500. Nowadays Huang has turned the cost part of Moore's law on it's head.

More false revisionist history. 8800 Ultra launched at $830 in 2007. That's about $1260 today.

 

[SkyBill40]

The 8800 Ultra launched at $800+ and the 8800 GTX $600+

I don't disagree with you at all regarding the current pricing, but the GeForce 8000 series was crazy high pricing on launch. The 8800 GT is the card most people remember because instead of it just being a late refresh it turned performance vs price on its head.

I had an 8800 GTS 640MB. Loved that card and actually still have it. I don't exactly remember what I paid for it, but I suspect somewhere ~ $500 and that was way back then.

 

[cpkennit83]

I hope one of the remaining ones is the Riva TNT, as thats what put nvidia in the map for me. Back then i went with the Voodoo Banshee, but i have fond memories of the TnTs of some friends.

 

[felipetga]

Had that exact card, the Geforce 256 ddr, amazing card. Guess was paired with a P3 750mhz and 256mb ram

 

[ZF121]

GeForce 8000 Series are DX 10.0 not 11 so .....................

 

[newtechldtech]

yea right .. how about giving away 1000 RTX 5090 FE signed ?

 

[ezst036]

Now I know who it is who is buying these old cards off of eBay.

 

[ravewulf]

it supported DirectX 11.1

Tesla-based cards only supported DirectX 10. DirectX 11 support wasn't introduced until Fermi/GeForce 400 series

 

[das_stig]

Nvidia profited on the back of work done by 3DFX, imagine if they had kept going, what we would be using now ?

 

[Sluggotg]

I see a signed box, not a signed GPU. There's no proof that the CEO manually signed it, is there?

Think of a hardball box signed by Mickey Mantle, not a signed ball. Value? ~$0,

They show pictures of him signing them on Twitter/X.

 

[SonoraTechnical]

meh, you have to be a real tool for this to matter to you even one bit....

 

[Sluggotg]

Nvidia profited on the back of work done by 3DFX, imagine if they had kept going, what we would be using now ?

3DFX shot themselves in the foot when they bought STB. They did this to make their own cards and cut the card manufacturers out of the loop. 3DFX also stuck with 16bit color for too long. Don't get me wrong, the original Voodoo1 blew me away. I was the first one I knew to own one. Then I had a Voodoo2 and 6 months later a second one in SLI. Yes I loved Voodoo but they dropped the ball.

 

[Joseph_138]

The 8800 Ultra launched at $800+ and the 8800 GTX $600+

I don't disagree with you at all regarding the current pricing, but the GeForce 8000 series was crazy high pricing on launch. The 8800 GT is the card most people remember because instead of it just being a late refresh it turned performance vs price on its head.

And they still couldn't run Crysis.