Frankenstein RTX 4080M Desktop Card Loses To RX 9070 GRE In Benchmark Battle
Chinese BiliBili creator Qiong Shuma CHANNEL (roughly, "Budget Tech Channel") put up a video this weekend titled "RTX 4080 for Just 2,300 Yuan? Unfortunately, It's the Mobile Version." The premise is exactly what you think, but there's a twist: rather than comparing the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop inside a laptop, he's using one of these AD104 GPUs soldered to a graphics card. We already gave away the conclusion in the headline, but it's an interesting comparison nonetheless.
Presenter 杰某 (literally "Jie Mou" but basically meaning "some guy named Jie") explains that these cards became popular back in early 2024after the Biden administration banned the sale of the GeForce RTX 4090 (among many other GPUs) to China. Small independent shops take scrapped laptops, defective products, and recovered chips and solder them down to custom PCBs with similarly recovered GDDR7 chips and then hack NVIDIA's driver installer so that it will...
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