Modified NVIDIA RTX 4080 With 32GB Memory Flood Chinese Second Hand Market
The Chinese second hand market for PC components is reportedly getting flooded with custom NVIDIA RTX 4080 graphics cards. These RTX 40 Series GPUs, which use GDDR6X memory, have had their memory capacity bumped from 16GB to 32GB. These modified RTX 4080 32GB cards have practically mushroomed across second hand platforms in the country, and […] The post Modified NVIDIA RTX 4080 With 32GB Memory…
The Chinese second hand market for PC components has been inundated with custom NVIDIA RTX 4080 graphics cards, boasting 32GB of memory. These modified RTX 4080 32GB cards have become prevalent on second hand platforms, with some sellers asking for prices over 10,000 yuan (approximately RM6,000 each). The original RTX 4080, launched in 2022, was considered the second most powerful GPU of the Ada Lovelace era before being surpassed by the RTX 4080 Super.
The RTX 4080 ships with 16GB of GDDR6X memory, 9,729 CUDA cores, a memory bandwidth of 716GB/s, and a 256-bit memory bus. This isn't the first time Chinese modders have flooded their market with cards with doubled memory capacities; RTX 4080 Super GPUs with 32GB have been appearing in their market for the past year. Additionally, custom RTX 4090 and RTX 4090D GPUs with 48GB memory have also surfaced.
Modifying these cards, however, presents challenges such as the loss of official support, lack of official drivers, and potential reliability and stability issues. Chinese consumers who buy these modified cards may need to use custom drivers and patch them regularly for updates. The reliability of these modified GPUs depends on the skill of the person performing the modification.
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