News Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling

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The Chinese hardware industry is getting creative in its attempts to work around U.S. sanctions and provide solutions for its AI and data center industry, repurposing used RTX 3080 GPUs with double the memory and blower-style coolers.

Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling : Read more

 

[artk2219]

Id buy one of those for a decent price, 20GB of VRAM and a blower so it can fit into 2 slots and smaller cases, it wouldn't be particularly quiet, but yeah, theres a market for that.

 

[MnamesPAUL]

Id buy one of those for a decent price, 20GB of VRAM and a blower so it can fit into 2 slots and smaller cases, it wouldn't be particularly quiet, but yeah, theres a market for that.

These sound awesome. I'd totally be part of that market too.... but then I got to thinking about what the drivers situation would be for something like this...

They called my baby "old" and "last gen" and I am very very buttsad about it though.

 

[0xDEADFED5]

Id buy one of those for a decent price, 20GB of VRAM and a blower so it can fit into 2 slots and smaller cases, it wouldn't be particularly quiet, but yeah, theres a market for that.

if you wanna save a buck and do light AI, get an Intel Arc A770 16GB for under 300. SD.Next works great