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Art meets graphics cards: Nvidia presents three unique GeForce RTX 3080

Jul 10, 2021

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Nvidia used the event “Bilibili World 2021”, which started yesterday in Shanghai, the in-house exhibition of the video-sharing platform Bilibili, which is extremely popular in China, for three very unique and artist-made events designed Ampere graphics cards of the type GeForce RTX 3080 (test). Art meets graphics cards.

Three unique GeForce RTX 3080 from Nvidia

For the fair commissioned Nvidia three Chinese artists to transform a completely ordinary GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition into a truly unique piece. First the Chinese website IT Home became aware of this and presented corresponding photos of the three individual items.

All three graphics cards officially exhibited by Nvidia are obviously a tribute to computer games popular in China, e-athletes and well-known anime series.

The orange-colored design bears the insignia of the Overwatch clan Chengdu Hunters, while the two turquoise-colored creations pay homage to the Chinese role-playing game The Legend of Sword and Fairy, first published in 1995, and an anime series.

Just look, don't touch!

While the graphics card market has recovered a bit, far from any MSRP, and GeForce and Radeon are getting cheaper, these three unique gaming amp graphics cards are simply not for sale. As IT Home further reports, the three graphics cards will not go on sale, but could serve as the prize for a competition that is likely to be limited to China.

Limited graphics cards have a tradition at Nvidia

Already in February 2020 Nvidia had presented a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (test) in the design of the dystopian and much discussed action RGP Cyberpunk 2077 (test). The graphics card, limited to 77 copies, was then raffled off by Nvidia on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

But AMD can also limit: The celebrations for the 50th anniversary of AMD in In 2019, board partners accompanied special editions of the Radeon RX 590, while the manufacturer itself issued a limited Radeon VII and a Ryzen 7 2700X Gold Edition with the signature of AMD CEO Lisa Su for fans and collectors.

In contrast to Nvidia, the “50th Anniversary Edition” from AMD went on sale on a regular basis, but it wasn't one-of-a-kind either.