News Chinese workshops recondition Nvidia's old flagship gaming GPU for AI — RTX 2080 Ti upgraded to 22GB for $499

[Admin]

Chinese workshops recycle and modify the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti into AI accelerators during the AI boom.

Chinese workshops recondition Nvidia's old flagship gaming GPU for AI — RTX 2080 Ti upgraded to 22GB for $499 : Read more

 

[SSGBryan]

These have been on Aliexpress for quite some time now.

 

[Notton]

Honestly, that's a pretty good way to reuse old hardware and reduce e-waste.

I would do the same to LPDDR laptops, if I had the tools.

 

[Order 66]

I know that the main focus of this is AI, but does the 2080ti have the horsepower to utilize 22GB of VRAM in games? I'm curious to see how it performs in gaming, especially at higher resolutions.

 

[SSGBryan]

I'm sure it will be able to going forward - texture packs aren't getting smaller.

OTOH, it has the same amount of CUDA cores as an RTX 4060ti.

 

[SSGBryan]

Honestly, that's a pretty good way to reuse old hardware and reduce e-waste.

I would do the same to LPDDR laptops, if I had the tools.

There are a whole series of these for sale on Aliexpress; they are sold by Jieshuo.

There is the 2060m 12gb, the 2070m 8gb, the 2080m 8gb, the 2080ti 22gb, the 3050tiM 8gb, 3060m 12gb, and the 3080m 8gb (although they have completely sold out of 3080m).

On the AMD side, there is a RX580 16gb (which is an RX 570 w/16gb), and I have seen a 6600m.

I am debating on pulling the trigger on a 2060m 12gb. I really want to see how this runs Stable Diffusion, and how the Frankendrivers work.

 

[Pollopesca]

Cool to see old hardware getting a second life...

...Painful to see bare boards stacked haphazardly on a wood table.

 

[razor512]

I know that the main focus of this is AI, but does the 2080ti have the horsepower to utilize 22GB of VRAM in games? I'm curious to see how it performs in gaming, especially at higher resolutions.

While gaming at higher resolutions will likely not be helped as much, there are games, especially with high res texture packs, that will utilize more than 11GB of VRAM, and with enough VRAM and throughput, the performance overhead is extremely minimal, while having a large benefit to overall image quality.

 

[fireaza]

Somehow, I suspect that might be a promotional image, and very few, if any of the workers look like that girl. Call it a hunch.