A consumer‑grade Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) GeForce RTX 3090, originally a $1,499 PC gaming graphics card, doubled as a powerful appraisal engine, driving a new AI tool that tags Chinese ceramics and predicts auction prices with roughly 99% accuracy, reveals a Nvidia blog post from Friday.
What Happened: Instead of relying on a costly data‑center cluster, researchers plugged an off‑the‑shelf RTX 3090 into a desktop and trained a vision model on centuries of kiln styles and real sales from Sotheby's and Christie's. The system correctly slotted more than 20 ceramic categories, spanning the Tang dynasty era to modern times, into price bands and even pegged a Ming‑dynasty jar within 30% of its final hammer price.
