r/SipsTea • u/SunnSaiyaan • 1d ago

Chugging tea Chinese bride gifts her partner a flagship GPU at wedding he breaks down in tears

That's an ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 that costs around $12,000

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u/MullenStudio 1d ago

It's banned to export to China so can't buy it from official channel anyway, would need to pay a lot but not due to tariff. Also recent news is that nvidia stopped production, so the price skyrockets.

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u/Mobile_Morale 21h ago

Yeah this is the equivalent of seeing a guy get an elephant tusk as a wedding present.

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u/Ms4Sheep 9h ago

In Beijing rn, online prices are 10k or less (USD). Rarer as time goes by