4090 price going up?

[Rroff]

And Nvidia has already announced it's going to once again try to skirt the export bans by making a RTX4090D. The 4090D is a cut down 4090 with fewer cores, lower clocks and lower power draw. The card will have the same MSRP as the normal 4090 and assuming the 4090D doesn't also get banned, they intend to start shipping these to China

AKA rebadged what would have been the 4080

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Apparently what's left of the 4090 in China can be found selling for up to $7000, so if you guys wanna re-sell your 4090's to China you can make a pretty profit... just don't tell the US

The performance per dollar is so bad at that price I can't fathom who is buying them. But a lot of it has to do with VRAM as well, not just AI performance. Some factories in China are now taking old RTX3000 cards which still have decent performance and modifying them to have 20gb+ vram and it's the high vram that makes them valuable

Even long before the 4090 ban, you could buy 22gb 2080TIs here. People love a bit of AI work in China.
Sadly, even the 22gb 2080 prices have gone up a reasonable amount.

 

[willhub]

Still waiting for 4080s to get hoovered up, fingers crossed.

 

[decto]

Still waiting for 4080s to get hoovered up, fingers crossed.

4080 looking better value by the day