Crackpot MSI GeForce RTX 3080 with 20GB (320-cycle) Memory Sells in China for Under $600

With NVIDIA bearing down on the inventory network to prepare for the cutting edge RTX 40-series, we’re seeing some very crackpot illustrations card hit the market as true/retail items. One such card in China is the MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ventus 3X with 20 GB of memory. The card is neither in light of the GA102-200 ASIC driving the first RTX 3080 with 10 GB of memory, nor is it in view of the GA102-220 fueling the RTX 3080 12 GB, yet rather the “GA102-250,” or if nothing else the board portrayal sticker says as much. The card highlights 20 GB of memory across a 320-digit wid memory transport. Its center config stays obscure.

The SKU situated over the RTX 3080 12 GB, the RTX 3080 Ti, is controlled by the GA102-225. VideoCardz found that the card comes up short on LHR equipment restriction for blockchain hashrates, which could be proof that MSI had a unique load of illustrations cards that it was straightforwardly offering to excavators even while LHR-empowered cards were being pushed to the retail market. The card yields a hash-pace of 97.48 MH/s in the ETHASH test, demonstrating the absence of the LHR block. The card additionally includes show connectors. The leaker behind photos of this card expresses that there might be upwards of a 100 of these cards available for use, valued around RMB 3xxx (USD $432 to $600).