
A leaked video revealed the large-scale modification of RTX 5090 graphics cards in China's AI gray market, causing inventory in the retail market to dry up and prices to soar to nearly $10,000.
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Due to its powerful computing power, Huida RTX 5090 graphics card has become the main target for modification in China’s AI gray market for large-scale language model training.
The American technology news website "Tom's Hardware" reported on the 24th that a recently exposed video revealed how Chinese factories skillfully dismantle and modify a large number of Huida RTX 5090 gaming graphics cards to drive artificial intelligence (AI) servers.
The report said that if you are curious why the GeForce RTX 5090 top-end graphics card has disappeared from retail shelves, the answer lies in China’s industrial-grade modification factories. The leaked video revealed the staggering scale of the gray market in China's AI business, as well as the factory dismantling the new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card and modifying it to meet the needs of large-scale language model training and other AI tasks.
Although the GeForce RTX 5090 cannot be legally marketed in China, it has been modified into an AI main component. The video shows that in these factories, skilled workers desolder the high-priced flagship GPU GB202 and GDDR7 memory, and then transplant these components into dual-slot turbo cooling cards specifically for servers.
These GeForce RTX 5090 Turbo graphics cards are ultimately installed in high-density server racks and become the backbone of large AI computing clusters. The scale and efficiency of related disassembly and modification are jaw-dropping. Workers modify new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards on the production line. After testing and inspection, they repackage these modified GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards and then ship them to customers such as data centers or AI laboratories.
It is reported that Huida has stopped producing GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards and switched to producing higher-profit professional-grade GPUs, such as the Blackwell-based RTX Pro 6000.
Meanwhile, the vast Chinese modding factories are still operating at full speed, and U.S. retailers' stocks of GeForce RTX 5090 have been almost wiped out due to supply diversion and aggressive gray market recycling. The price of GeForce RTX 5090 has been priced close to US$10,000, which is beyond the reach of ordinary gamers.

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