Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s double-signed Blackwell Workstation GPU gets 3.5 times of its price at auction - The Times of India

A high-end Nvidia workstation graphics card signed twice by company CEO Jensen Huang has fetched $57,450 at public auction, beating its original pre-sale projection by nearly three times. The piece, an RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, was sold as part of RR Auction’s event titled “Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction Part Two”. Standard retail editions of the workstation processor typically range between $12,000 and $16,000.Nvidia gained global prominence through its gaming hardware with many of which Huang has autographed over the years. However, this particular unit was engineered for heavy enterprise tasks like artificial intelligence (AI) computation. Nvidia markets the model as the most powerful desktop-class GPU ever built.Origin of the card: Unlike historic vintage technology pieces that take decades to build financial value, this graphics card accumulated its auction appeal over just a few months. According to RR Auction, the processor was initially given away as a raffle prize during the GTC 2026 Physical AI Meetup held alongside Nvidia's annual developers conference in March, as per a report by Business Insider.Jensen Huang memorabilia at other auctionsAlthough the workstation card achieved a high winning bid, it falls well below the record sum paid for memorabilia associated with the Nvidia chief. In July, auction house Sotheby’s sold a signed, pre-owned Tom Ford leather jacket worn by Huang for $960,000.That sale significantly exceeded its initial guide estimate of $40,000 to $60,000, with all generated proceeds going to a nonprofit dedicated to supporting fellowships and creative residencies for emerging startup founders.Highlights from the Steve Jobs auction lotWhile the signed GPU commanded a steep premium, historical Apple artifacts led the broader auction.As the top sale of the event, a rare, restored and fully functioning “Neumark” Apple-1 computer secured the highest bid of the auction at $499,363. The auction also included several personal keepsakes belonging to Steve Jobs, such as framed living room photographs, a handwritten letter to his father, spare computer components preserved at his family residence and his original 8th-grade science fair entry.Get the latest technology news and updates. Download the TOI App.