minus-squareplebeian@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.world•Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·edit-223 hours agoTL;DW: US banned sales of a certain class of high performance graphic cards to China. It is actually possible to purchase those cards in China. And it is not very hard to do so. The prices of said cards in China are quite similar to the ones in the US. A lot of big players in the market are not happy with the truth presented in this piece by Gamers Nexus. edit: grammar. Personal opinion: In this video, there is a demonstration of how a card can have the VRAM enhanced(48GB) and a GPU moved from a PCB to another PCB. The manufacturers say that VRAM is expensive. I do not think that! Sustainability is possible if it is wanted. linkfedilink
TL;DW:
US banned sales of a certain class of high performance graphic cards to China.
It is actually possible to purchase those cards in China. And it is not very hard to do so.
The prices of said cards in China are quite similar to the ones in the US.
A lot of big players in the market are not happy with the truth presented in this piece by Gamers Nexus.
edit: grammar.
Personal opinion: In this video, there is a demonstration of how a card can have the VRAM enhanced(48GB) and a GPU moved from a PCB to another PCB.
The manufacturers say that VRAM is expensive. I do not think that! Sustainability is possible if it is wanted.