Good Guy EVGA Auctioning RTX 4090 for Charity

EVGA just keeps warming the hearts of gamers, this time not by making a great graphics card but by auctioning one of their last RTX 4090 for charity.

Most of us know what happened between Nvidia and EVGA, one of the most beloved graphics card brand. But for those who do not before NVIDIA unveiled its GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards, EVGA made a shock announcement that it would no longer be participating in the GPU market and instead focus on other PC components. There was plenty of reason but one was that Nvidia was extremely hard to work with. Receiving little information about new chips and only receiving the GPUs very close to launch which gives very little time to thoroughly test cards.

This was a huge blow to many graphics enthusiast fans, especially when the company’s prototype card was revealed weeks later and looked very impressive. It was confirmed that EVGA had made a few engineering samples of the RTX 4090 FTW3 card before deciding to cancel the project. Some of these prototypes were given to popular YouTubers who had been working closely with EVGA.

However, the company still has a few cards left and one of them is now being auctioned off on eBay, with all net proceeds going towards St. Jude Children’s Hospital to support their research into life-threatening diseases. The auction will end in 6 days and the current price is $13,100.00, which is likely to increase further. If I had $14,000 just laying around I wound’t mind bidding as I feel this will be one piece a lot of heavy hardware enthusiasts would love to own.

The so-called EVGA Next-Gen GPU also made an appearance during an overclocking stream last night as part of the EVGA Z790 Dark motherboard launch.