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I read an article that RTX are going up in price again because scalpers are buying them to sell them to China which can't buy them legitimately because of the US export bans lol
Nah. The only cards affected by this are high end workstation cards and the 4090. There is some scalping of very specifically only 4090s already in-country which are being purchased and repurposed into RTX 6000 Ada server cards for use in AI server farms.
The reason that 4090s are so expensive is because a huge amount of stock was redirected to China before the ban went into effect in mid-November. Anyone in the west trying to scalp, especially on 4080 or anything lower is going to be in for a very funny 2020 toilet paper scalper
time.
Nvidia sent about a 6-month supply of the AD102 chips to continue making 6000 Ada and 4090 cards until the 4090D variant chips are ready, but AIB manufacturers are taking advantage of the situation and massively increasing prices of units while also focusing all manufacturing into workstation cards. They're also repurposing gaming GPUs into more expensive workstation cards, to ensure that there will be a huge amount of the 6000 Ada cards for likely years to come, and gamers are just gonna have to stick with the 4090 they have or get a 4090D which will be slightly less powerful.