Chinese AI & Cloud Providers Bump Up Memory On NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 "Gaming" GPUs: RTX 4090D With 48 GB & RTX 4080 With 32 GB

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs are now seeing their VRAMs bumped up by Chinese companies to sustain AI workloads, especially for cloud computing providers. The last weird encounter we witnessed was with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, which saw its VRAM being doubled by modders to get sufficient performance for the AI markets. It looks like the "Modding fever" has now spread onto the latest GeForce RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs. A Chinese AI expert has disclosed that people in the region are selling Team Green's GeForce RTX 4090D and RTX 4080 SUPER GPUs with modded VRAMs. The GeForce 4090D is reportedly available with 48 GB GDDR6X memory, while the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is modded to house 32 GB memory. The source says that such GPUs are popular amongst cloud computing providers, and they are renting out computing power to address the demand for it in the market amid the AI hype. Interestingly, the modded GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is available for $0.03 for a single hour, which is a shocker. The move was done after the US government announced its plans to curb exports of AI accelerators from NVIDIA to China which later extended to consumer-tier parts such as the RTX 4090 which is why the company had to launch a specialized RTX 4090D variant to serve the market.