Someone modded an Nvidia RTX 5080 into a skateboard and it rides surprisingly well
The RTX 5080 is a beast of a GPU that apparently works great as a skateboard. Yes, those words were just used in a sentence because someone actually made a skateboard out of an RTX 5080. With minimal detail about the transformation, the short clip is funny but at the same time concerning given how expensive that GPU is.
A short clip posted in the r/pcmasterrace subreddit by a user named ashleysaidwhat shows someone, presumably the poster, riding an RTX 5080 as a skateboard. They seem to have attached a pair of skateboard trucks to an Asus Astral RTX 5080 GPU. The length of the card is sufficient for the rider to keep both their feet on it. And, they are out walking their dog who seems just as surprised as the commenters.
She's a 5080 Astral but she looks like a 5090, and she handles like a TUF
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The user did not share if the card was functional or not before they converted it into a functional skateboard. Hopefully it was the latter as the Astral RTX 5080 is currently going for $1,745, making it a pretty expensive skateboard with pretty bad ergonomics. It could even be just the CPU cooler attached to a board with trucks underneath, but that remains a mystery until the poster decides to chime in. The post just states, “She's a 5080 Astral but she looks like a 5090, and she handles like a TUF.”
On the subject of high-end GPUs, it was recently reported that the Nvidia RTX 5090 has “effectively” reached End of Life (EOL) and that supply for the Founders Edition and other MSRP models is seemingly shrinking. Eventually, the GPU will be phased out and the ones available in the market will become insanely expensive.
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