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Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (16 children)

If they were readily available they would be a tempting option! But no, Nvidia continue to be frugal with vram in the consumer space...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Frankenstein 3080M 16GB is interesting, 3080 mobile so roughly on par with desktop 3070 but with 16GB VRAM...and they're pretty cheap.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Graphics-Card-RTX3080m-GPU-GeForce-RTX_1600880058343.html?spm=a2700.shop_plgr.41413.35.39f45071W40035

I'm tempted, the frankendriver project fixes the driver issue with these cards (at least for now) and it seems like most people have a good experience with them...

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