Sweet Tech Jesus! It's 3 and 1/2 hours long.

I really respect Gamers Nexus for actually doing the shit Linus Tech Tips just haws and haws over.

Thanks Steve.

But now that Nvidia agreed to pay a bribe to the government it's no longer black market

Funny thing is 'Local ML' tinkerers largely can't afford GPUs in the US either.

The 5090 is ludicrously expensive for its VRAM pool. So is the 4090, which is all but OOS. Nvidia will only sell you a decent-sized pool for $10K. Hence non-techbros here have either been building used RTX 3090 boxes (the last affordable compute GPU Nvidia ever sold), EPYC homelabs for CPU offloading, or have been trying to buy those modded 48GB 4090s back.

The insane supply chain is something like this:

• Taiwan GPUs -> China

• China GPU boards -> US

• US GPU Boards -> Smuggled back into China

• Deneutered GPU Boards -> Sold back to US

All because Nvidia is playing VRAM cartel and AMD, inexplicably, is uninterested in competing with it when they could sell 48GB 7900s basically for free.

I feel dumb for it but I just can't keep track of all the controversies and scandals right now:

Which scandal were they referring to the week of August 11 for why nobody in the US state department would respond?

My god, this is the LOTR Extended Edition of tech journalism videos

Whaaaat. US protectionism is purely performative and ineffective? I’m shocked! Surely this administration couldn’t be incompetent?

Mr Burke is going to get black bagged.

That was a lot of CAPITAL LETTERS

Any TL;DR on this? Nvidia secretly ships sanctioned GPUs to China?

Why did you link an image instead of the video?

Aaand they got their video taken down, link to post on YT

Here's a mirror on internet archive.

Much easier black market than drugs, because it is legal to import it, and no one checks when you export it.

Nvidia has 18%-28% of its sales to Singapore. They defend this by saying only 2% of their product is shipped there, but they don't say which countries receive the bulk of shipments that are billed through Singapore.

some 5090 cards in Hong Kong (from OP) are the same price as the US, which makes it hard to understand why US people have been charged with smuggling, and shows complicity of entire supply chain to funnel to China. Premiums over MSRPs in US would be zero or lower if this was all above board. You also can't find a 5090 on Amazon, but you can in Hong Kong boutique?

Prohibition for the loss, as always.