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GPUs and orchids

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Published 2026-10-03 (UTC)
updated 2026-10-04 (UTC)
updated 2026-10-07 (UTC)
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We set a white moth orchid beside our graphics cards, and the two looked so good together that we photographed them.

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the short version

We set a white moth orchid beside our graphics cards, and the two looked so good together that we photographed them.

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An EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 XC3 Ultra standing upright with its top edge to the camera, reading EVGA and GEFORCE RTX 3090, beside a white moth orchid in a lavender pot, its stem arching over with open white flowers and green buds, against a plain wall.
An EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 XC3 Ultra 24 GB, alone with the orchid, taken 2026-10-03.
Two EVGA cards standing upright side by side with their top edges to the camera, reading GEFORCE RTX 3090 and GEFORCE RTX 3080, beside the white moth orchid in its lavender pot.
The EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 XC3 Ultra 24 GB and an EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3, on edge, taken 2026-10-03.
A ZOTAC card standing upright with its top edge to the camera, its shroud shading from violet to teal and reading GEFORCE RTX, beside the white moth orchid in its lavender pot.
A ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3090 Ti AMP Extreme Holo 24 GB, taken 2026-10-03.
Two cards standing upright with their fan sides to the camera: an EVGA card with three black fans, and a Founders Edition card reading RTX 3080 Ti with its silver X-shaped frame and a braided power cable, the white moth orchid's flowers rising behind them.
An EVGA card, fan side, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition 12 GB, taken 2026-10-03.
The same two cards again, fan sides to the camera: an EVGA card with three black fans, and a Founders Edition card reading RTX 3080 Ti with a braided power cable, the white moth orchid's flowers rising behind them.
An EVGA card, fan side, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition 12 GB, taken 2026-10-03.
Two cards standing upright with their top edges to the camera, a black EVGA card reading GEFORCE RTX 3080 Ti beside a silver Founders Edition card reading GEFORCE RTX, next to the white moth orchid in its lavender pot.
An EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XC3 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition 12 GB, on edge, taken 2026-10-03.
An NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition standing on its edge with its face to the camera, reading RTX PRO 6000 on the glossy panel at its centre, the white moth orchid in its lavender pot behind it, its stems arching up and over with open white flowers and green buds, against a plain wall.
An NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition 96 GB, taken 2026-10-03.
A black-and-gold ZOTAC GeForce RTX 5080 with three fans standing beside a white moth orchid in a lavender pot.
A ZOTAC GeForce RTX 5080 Solid CORE OC beside a white moth orchid. Taken 2026-10-06.
The same black-and-gold ZOTAC card standing upright with its top edge to the camera, reading GEFORCE RTX, behind the white moth orchid's leaves and lavender pot, the orchid's stem arching over it.
The same ZOTAC GeForce RTX 5080, from the side. Taken 2026-10-06.
The workstation sitting on its battery backup: a pink-lit 3090 Ti beside the bracket of an NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, a CPU cooler at left.
The cards at work: the workstation, the computer behind the workshop's public services, on its battery backup, with an EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming lit pink beside the bracket of an NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, taken 2026-09-25, from One 3090 out, one 3090 Ti in, and the cap that decided it.

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