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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)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 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 11 months ago (14 children)

Unfortunately we need to be careful what we wish for. As AI processing becomes more and more popular, if a card like the RTX 4070 had 20 GB vram they would probably all be snatched up by companies to use for AI processing on the cheap, and suddenly 4070 and higher all go for $2000 like the mining craze all over again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

these companies they pre-order them, they arent like your average miners that go to AIB order a bulk like black market.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Well there’s still only a finite number of them being fabbed and manufactured. Whether they custom order them in bulk or not it still reduces available supply for other customers.

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