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Investigation into Nvidia GPU smuggling

Not sure I can stomach watching over 3 hours on this topic. Everyone knew that banning sales wouldn’t really work, but it is the job of the US world police to always be meddling. :/
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Not sure I can stomach watching over 3 hours on this topic. Everyone knew that banning sales wouldn’t really work, but it is the job of the US world police to always be meddling. :/
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Agreed: I watched the previous video. Switched off when they started asking for contributions for their cost on accomadation etc.
 
I have started it, since got a lot of time to kill today. I actually like GN stuff, but this is a really long video, and it doesn't need to be.
The first hour and 20 minutes could easily be cut down to a third of the length.
 
Watched it and agree with above it's too long for the sake of it and doesn't need to be and this is the 'cut down' version.

Few interesting parts but does seem to go around in circles at times when it doesn't need to.
 
pete910 said:
What's the TLDW version ?
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ChatGPT got you covered:

The video is a 3.5-hour investigative documentary by Gamers Nexus exposing the black market for NVIDIA AI GPUs, particularly how high-end, export-restricted models still end up in China despite U.S. trade bans. It follows supply chains and smuggling operations across China, Taiwan, and the U.S., even attempting to buy restricted cards like the RTX 5090 and showcasing modified GPUs built to bypass controls. The investigation suggests smuggling is widespread and sometimes tolerated, with billions in potential revenue at stake, highlighting the gap between official export policies and the on-the-ground reality of global GPU demand.
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
Just finished watched 3 hours and 30 mins very interesting video.

Very surprised people in China can still buy banned RTX 5090.
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As the video shows, most rtx5090 is coming into China from students, mostly Chinese students in Australia and other countries going back home. Foreign students in Australia buy a 5090 from a pc store then take it back to China when they go home and then they sell it in China for big profit of between $700 and $1500

This is occurring because the departure airport's security is not either checking bags for banned GPUs or due to lack of training, they simply don't know a banned GPU from a non banned one and so they don't care if someone is carrying a GPU in their bag

Doing this from the USA might be more difficult, maybe their airport security is training to look for RTX5090 but airports in Australia etc probably don't give a crap because no one is breaking Australian law
 
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The first part does feel like it can be cut down, took like half an hour at least before it felt like the video started to pick up. The interviews were pretty cool to listen to at least. Full setups can't be imported but can still do it piece by piece, and although Nvidia would prefer you to use their entire ecosystem, China companies don't really seem to care and have their own solutions.

There's also the GPU recycling and even modifications (eg adding more VRAM) which was cool to watch.

Crazy how high the AI demand for Nvidia GPUs are, AMD seems to still be small (based on the vid the developers heavily rely on CUDA) and Intel isn't even being considered. Huawei does have Ascend but I remember reading an article that it's not as mature as Nvidia's solutions, apparently Deepseek had issues with their model running on them.
 
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