The latest NVIDIA insult against gamers...

[temps]

As gamers find themselves struggling to cope with high prices and scarce supplies of graphics cards to build their PCs, a new documentary reveals NVIDIA has been turning a blind eye to allow their GPUs to flow illegally into communist China for use in AI applications.

This obviously also has the effect of making GPU supplies for PC builders even more scarce and high priced when they eventually become available to gamers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltgyS8oJC8g

[Azza ☠]

Umm what?

Nvidia RTX graphic cards have special nerfed versions for China - for example the RTX5090D, etc (with D at the end)

Now the Chinese Nationals have already been arrested for smuggling the original (non-nerfed for AI) Nvidia RTX 4090 and 5090 units to China.

It was two Chinese nationals - Chuan Geng and Shiwei Yang

Neither of them have a license to export either. They used the code EAR99 (which is meant for low-technology consumer goods and does not require a license in most situations). Didn't get that far with the shipments before blocked and arrested.

The shipment "contained 117 Graphic Cards with a value of $176,500 and two Graphical Processing Unit Base Boards, with a value of $4,000", and never made it there to be sold.