Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based seller offers AI-friendly memory mod for a reasonable price
Services have recently popped up that will double your RTX 2080 Ti's memory to 22GB, but if you don't have a card to spare, you can now get a pre-modded 22 GB 2080 Ti for $499 from eBay.
The AI industry's growth has led to a renewed interest in older Nvidia GPUs with Tensor Cores. A Hong Kong-based seller is offering pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards for $499, doubling the original memory pool and making these GPUs more suitable for modern AI tasks like LLM and diffusion workloads. The seller provides a turbo, or blower-style, RTX 2080 Ti with the 22GB memory mod, and the brand of the card can vary between Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, Leadtek, or others.
Despite a relatively low lifetime feedback rate of 99.6% on eBay, 38 buyers have expressed satisfaction with the product. At $500, this could be the most cost-effective solution for those in need of additional VRAM. The RTX 2080 Ti's 616 GB/s of memory bandwidth and Tensor Cores make it still useful despite being eight years old.
However, modern options like the Titan RTX, Quadro RTX 6000, or RTX 3090 come with a higher price tag and offer even more VRAM and bandwidth.
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