"The Only One in the World... Worth 1.5 Billion Won" The Recipient of Jensen Huang's Gifted Graphics Card Is

Meeting with T1 Team at "T1 Base Camp"
Autographed Graphics Card Gifted by Lottery

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang met with Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok), known as the "Emperor of League of Legends (LoL)," and presented a graphics processing unit (GPU) to a member of the public.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang met with the League of Legends (LoL) team of eSports organization T1, including "Faker" Lee Sang-hyeok, at the "T1 Base Camp" in Mapo-gu, Seoul, on the 5th. Jensen Huang and Faker are showing a prize graphic card signed by each other. Photo by Yonhap News Agency

On the afternoon of the 5th, CEO Huang arrived at Gimpo Airport by private jet and visited "T1 Base Camp" in Mapo-gu, Seoul, as his first destination. T1 is a global eSports organization, and T1 Base Camp PC Café is a community space run by T1, combining a PC café with a shop selling T1 merchandise. This visit is interpreted as a symbolic gesture recognizing the contribution of Korea’s PC cafés and gaming culture to NVIDIA’s early growth. During his visit to Korea last year, CEO Huang also chanted "Faker" on stage and noted, "Without PC games, PC cafés, and eSports, there would be no NVIDIA as we know it today."

At the event, CEO Huang met with Faker and the five main T1 team players, saying, "Korea is the birthplace of eSports," and added, "Korean gamers choosing the best GPUs to win became the driving force behind NVIDIA’s growth." During the conversation, CEO Huang asked Faker, "Which graphics card do you use?" When Faker replied, "I use the GeForce RTX 4090," CEO Huang joked, "That’s an antique." After their conversation, CEO Huang presented Faker with a GeForce RTX 5090 bearing his own autograph. In return, Faker gave CEO Huang a jersey signed by himself.

Subsequently, CEO Huang and Faker autographed the next-generation flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 5090, and held a giveaway event in which they drew numbers distributed to visitors on-site and presented the card as a prize. CEO Huang commented about the card, "It’s a one-of-a-kind, special edition in the world and might be worth about 1 million dollars (approximately 1.537 billion won)." The regular transaction price of the product is reportedly around 7 million won.

Additionally, two visitors at the event received exchange vouchers for the next-generation gaming laptop, "RTX Spark," as a further gift. CEO Huang said, "When RTX Spark is released this fall, you can exchange this. This is a 'Jensen IOU.'"

Meanwhile, after completing his first-day schedule, CEO Huang had what is known as a "Samso Meeting"—a gathering over samgyeopsal (grilled pork belly) and soju—with Euisun Chung, Executive Chair of Hyundai Motor Group; Koo Kwang-mo, Chair of LG Group; Chey Tae-won, Chair of SK Group; and Lee Hae-jin, Chair of Naver, near Hongdae in the evening. Until the 8th, CEO Huang’s schedule in Korea includes meetings with executives of leading domestic game companies and visits to Seoul National University AI researchers and research institutes.

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