Nvidia CEO rumors of resignation sent a flurry of activities to unreleased GeForce RTX 5090. Rumor that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned from his position changed the graphics card that was expected to be a high-end graphics card into an item of speculation and collectable to certain individuals. It shows how quickly executive news can turn hardware value upside down at a moment's notice, before they are even launched.
Speculative valuations for signed cards surge amid unverified executive news
The market movement is centered around the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders edition. This is where the news of the top executives change in NVIDIA has supposedly happened on Nov 12th (per sources). But this is an opposite of the public records of their CEO position status. This unreleased product is now suddenly reaching a premium level online forum due to this rumor or scandal around it.
The GeForce RTX 5090 is unreleased as of this writing and there's no price or availability yet. The value of this card or any claims of Jensen Huang resigned that causes this price upsurge is not confirmed. It's still just a rumor for now.
You should take all of those values as noise and speculatively speaking. Not really good market indicators for this upcoming hardware.
The people in the market are giving such a wild valuation to any signed versions of the graphics card. If we look at auction pre-rumor valuation it was about $10,005. But now people are giving a wild asking price for speculation which is around $50,000.
It's completely fueled by the controversy and not by any actual specs behind it. Some people are even comparing this wildness to NFT markets. The premium might slowly die down when the controversy ends.
I have never seen market logic collapse this fast. $50,000 for an unreleased card is absolute madness.
the nft comparison is spot on tbh