«The next level of scam»: YouTuber received four NVIDIA RTX 4090s, three were fakes
It is extremely difficult for an ordinary user to distinguish between counterfeit NVIDIA graphics cards with broken laser engraving on the chips. The repairman told us about the external signs.
«Two weeks of stress»: eBay buyer soldered chips out of RTX 4090 and returned an empty board
An engineer from the United States told us how he was in a state of stress for two weeks after someone bought a used Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 video card from him on eBay and then brazenly returned it… without the GPU and memory chips – they were simply soldered off the board. After the purchase, it was almost immediately returned with…
Fraudsters are selling fake NVIDIA RTX 4090 with Ampere GPU — fakes are almost impossible to distinguish
The sale of fake RTX 4090s with previous-generation GPUs is becoming a new fraudulent scheme. A user on the Bilibili platform has exposed another such fake video card.
RTX 5080 for laptops outperforms mobile RTX 4090 and desktop RX 7900 XTX in OpenCL test
The Geekbench 6 benchmarking database has published the results of testing the new RTX 5080 laptop graphics card. This is the first confirmed benchmark for the GPU RTX 50 series for laptops. The test was conducted on the Alienware 18 Area-51 laptop presented at CES 2025. Probably, the test was conducted right at the exhibition after installing the…
There will be no discounts: GeForce RTX 4090 has become scarce and is selling for $3500 before RTX 5090 launch
If you were planning to snag a GeForce RTX 4090 on the cheap just before the RTX 5090 drops, that’s probably not happening.
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