10 Sep, 2024

Nvidia RTX 4090 cards are reportedly being hoarded for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers, which could inevitably drive prices up

The Nvidia RTX 4090 currently reigns as the king of consumer graphics cards, sitting atop our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. It’s one of the best graphics cards for gaming, AI, and other work — except RTX 4090 prices have been increasing ever since the cards were put on the U.S. export controls list a few months […]

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Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling

Repurposed batches of “RTX 3080 20G AI” cards featuring blower-style coolers and with 20GB GDDR6X are being spotted in large quantities over in China, stored and sold via AliExpress. These are yet another attempt to work around U.S export controls that now prohibit the sale of the fastest data center and consumer GPUs to China […]

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I’ve looked at all the GPU prices this Black Friday, and most of the ‘real’ deals are on Intel Arc graphics cards

If you’re looking for a great deal on a new graphics card for Black Friday, you’re not alone. Because who wouldn’t want a GPU upgrade at a discount? The problem is that determining which GPUs are true deals and which are simply slight discounts can be tricky. Lots of places list original MSRPs that are, […]

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