Want to buy Jensen Huang's lunchbox? You'll get a 1998 NVIDIA Riva TNT video card thrown in

If you're a keen antique collector in the tech sphere, then here's something that might interest you - an NVIDIA Riva TNT video accelerator is up for auction.

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As VideoCardz was switched on enough to notice, the sale is being run by Heritage Auctions, and it's for an "NVIDIA Riva TNT Engineering Prototype Kit & Lunch Box" both of which are signed by Jensen Huang.

Well, we say signed by the NVIDIA CEO, but that isn't verified in the case of both signatures, so take that with a pinch of pixels.

The central attraction is that NVIDIA Riva TNT, which dates back to before the term GPU was coined, when these boards were referred to as video accelerators. You get a sample Riva TNT board - which is also unverified in terms of whether it works or not, with the auction marking it as untested - plus a metal briefcase container for it. There's also a driver disc, demo disc, and an Nvidia-engraved pen in the bundle, plus the foam is signed by Huang.

As for the lunchbox, it's a "rare piece originally distributed to a handful of employees and select journalists" - what's technically referred to as a freebie (we'd be amazed if there weren't T-shirts, too, but they aren't part of this auction bundle).

The lunchbox is the real attraction here, though - just look at that 80s styling (even though the Riva TNT was a 1998 launch for NVIDIA). 'Protecting the world from mediocrity' indeed!

The current bid, at the time of writing, is $500, but with two weeks left on the auction, we'd anticipate this slice of NVIDIA history going for a good few more dollars than that.